DANIELLE HUYGHE

STICHTING DANIELLE HUYGHE

DANIELE HUYGHE CREATES CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT.
SHE LOCKS HER CHARACTERS UP IN ISOLATED SYSTEMS, SUCH AS;
SLEEPING CLINICS, EXPERIMENTS, FEMALE PRISONS, VICIOUS CIRCLES. 

In her work, Daniëlle Huyghe investigates the impact of isolation and control on the human mind. Her characters find themselves in closed systems – sleep clinics, experiments, women's prisons – from which escape seems impossible. These systems reveal the mechanisms of power, vulnerability and resilience. In a time when isolation is becoming increasingly common, Huyghe exposes the sore points of structures that limit us. Her work raises questions about autonomy, freedom and the role of systems in our lives. It is a powerful mirror and a call to reflection, confronting us with what it means to be human in a controlled world.

SOME SENTENCES WRITTEN ABOUT HUYGHE`S WORK, GO TO HOME TO READ THE FULL REVIEWS. 

"Into the blue" is also, if you think about it, a metaphor of art and artistic tension, always insufficient, in search of a perfective stillness that is in fact unattainable.'

`Meticulous work, full of details, which as a whole allows some points of reflection to emerge: the body treatment gives the addressed theme expressive power as a dominant colour; every immaterial subtlety of psychological implication is rendered through the paroxysm of bodies that know no rest.` 

'All three performers are excellent mimers with good physical expression, with Huyghe in particular brilliantly portraying the increasingly human robot. She shows a rock-solid control over her body in the minute changes of a wooden machine that learns more and more. In a fight against her own program, she makes spectacular falls and, when she gets up again, is just a little more flexible, down to the finest details.`

''I want to talk about Insomnia, I want people to search for help and to speak about there problems, before it ends up like me, being out for several Months". 

`Flemish artist, Danielle Huyghe with 2 performances to BORING Festival, Schuur Haarlem. Danielle Huyghe is only twenty-six, her resume is impressive. She has already danced in twenty performances, some of which she created herself."

`It is a work which is the final fruit of a two-year elaboration, and it is a rare thing in terms of intensity and complexity, starting from a real existential condition of the choreographer.`

`This double combination, of images that recall surrealist films from Antonin Artuad (such as the ambivalent La coquille et le Clergymen) to Man Ray, but also suggests the contemporary Dutch director Lars Von Trier, author of the film Melancholia of 2011, with the bodies of the performers produces, beyond psychology, or psychologism, ....`

`Belgian choreographer Danielle Huyghe, transfers all the painful complexity linked to sleep disorders from the narrative and confessional dimension (towards which traditional canons would direct her) to the non-verbal ones of the film image and dance.` 

` In “Into the blue”, the Belgian choreographer, together with the dancer Jill Kupers, stages the state of insomnia of two young women. Insomnia has often affected the life and even limited the art of Danielle Huyghe. In this work of dance and cinema, the dreamlike dimension is given by the images of the film "L'Heure bleu", made by the choreographer herself. 

`There are two hospital beds, two sleeping women, and the hysterical marking of time through the ticking of a clock. It is a performance at times violent and sclerotic. Angular movements and gestures, violent background noises dilate a sense of irrepressible energy.`

'Into the blue stands as one of those good works, in which focusing on the correct execution of the movements of its interpreters is, precisely, it is which makes it more eloquent."

`Out of the blue" provides everything - sophisticated, beautiful choreography in a great performance, a sublime atmosphere in which the viewer is simply immersed from the very first moments of the performance. It is also a spark to consider the reality of dreams, the subconscious and dreaming.

`The whole is really impressive. I strongly encourage you to face your dreams and fears in "Out of the blue", especially as the performance received the Jury Prize at this year's edition of the International Masdanza Festival for Best Choreography."