Falling may seem an act of resignation but it is a gesture which grounded us to reality. I relate the act of falling and of witnessing falling to some feelings connected to our (Western) relation to peace and to the idea of peace: i.e. embarassment, impotence, guilty complexe, passivity, pity. I would like to create a situation where the spectator would personally experience these feelings.

For me there are some important issues at stake. Firstly, the idea of walking is related, from the Greeks, to philosophy. Hanging around is also the privileged activity of the ?flaneur?.
We can relate the selection of different paths to theory such as psychogeography.
The falling will behave like a sort of virus and so will the rumeur, spreading and dispersing this event. The strangeness is of course related to a momentarily rupture in the everyday correct behaviour in a social situation like the street.

Sara Manente attended Communication Sciences at the University of Bologna and, as researcher, Dramaturgy of Contemporary Dance at the University of Antwerp. She studied classical and contemporary dance in her home town, Spinea (Venezia), Bologna, Madrid and Brussels, created and performed several works in Italy and Belgium: Anche il cerchio (in collaboration with Elisa Frasson and Alessio Fabbro), Khandroma, B.S.V.M., Palindrome and Eye in the sky (in collaboration with Marcos Simoes), Instructions (in collaboration with Kyung Ae Ro, Norberto Llopis Segarra, Marcos Simoes, Santiago Ribelles Zorita and Christophe Albertijn), Lawaai and This is my last solo and it is called "Lawaai".

She is attending APT with the research project Democratic Forest and she is working on a new version of the Lawaai project with Ondine Cloez, Michiel Reynaert, Lieve Sysmans and Christophe Albertijn.

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