ANECKXANDER

• Duration: 55 min
• Belgium
• Adult audience
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Alexander Vantournhout

Totally unclothed, a dancer twists and turns, violently searching for his limits, asking us to question our own with his bold, sculptural nudity. Like a doe-eye Pierrot, he launches once again into a series of gestures which blur the lines between acrobatics and sacrifice…
The idea for ANECKXANDER came to Alexander Vantournhout when another dancer told him that he had a long neck: hence Aneckxander. This incident compelled him to take a closer look at a body whose proportions had always seemed somewhat unusual. He thus set about examining the way his body is put together, and indirectly exploring conventional audience perceptions of the body. His research eventually yielded this piece, the “tragic autobiography of a body.” By turns funny and serious, Alexander rewrites the autobiography of his own body, alternating between the roles of subject, object and material. The result is an unfiltered self-portrait, wherein the body sheds its protective layers and attempts to escape the gaze of its observers. A superb and striking solo performance.