Benenbreken
'Benenbreken' means: to break legs
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The press on Benenbreken
De Morgen (B), 26/2/00
[...] In the short solo 'Benenbreken' Vanden Eynde performs a choreography for her legs, feet and toes, dressed in child-like white underwear. While speaking such phrases as 'Legs can break', 'Toes are funny' or 'White legs are not sexy', she uses the lower half of her body to create all kinds of shapes, from odd to comical. One can read them as an introductory summary, an exposition of the principles she wants to examine: the disarticulation and reintegration of the body and its parts, as well as its cultural characteristics, the connection between symmetry and fragmentation, a sideways glance at femininity. The way she sets to work as a choreographer is slow and concentrated, and this makes 'Benenbreken' an interestingly expressive and ambiguous piece of work. [...]
Veto (Leuven, B), 21/2/00
In 'Benenbreken' you see the empty space and a table on which she is 'exhibited', which immediately conveys a particular relationship with the body. The slow movements of her legs, and the occasional comments she makes on these legs alienate the body from itself, as if her legs were unrelated to the rest. She very sensitively explores boundaries and in each case the body is perceived differently. In this way she swings between beauty and the clumsiness within it and restores strength to the infirm body. In this way it subtly becomes first ironic, then deeply intimate. [...]
FAZ (D), 15/6/00
[...] With utter calmness Charlotte Vanden Eynde reveals how several meanings may be found in close proximity to each other. Lying on a table, she shows with her legs and feet what counts as beautiful- the streched- and ugly- the bent , and not only in dance. Her toes dance a wild duet counter to the diktat of the line. Very slowly the surfaces of her feet move along the insides of her legs and reveal a correct 'développé', which is touching as tender gesture too. Some rather wooden steps exude vulnerability, while poses that extend the legs hint at seduction. 'Benenbreken' is a laconic examination of these devices for movement, the dancer's main instrument and symbol of female sexuality. [...]