They take the community building power of POC belonging spaces as a starting point in order to reformulate traditional choreographic approaches. It is a research that explore everyday reality and social changes through a danced language that starts from the human instinct, and the need to express oneself through a concrete bodily experience.

It was Stanley's personal experience in the underground cultural scene and other POC belonging spaces that made him realize how central community and care are. Being a dancer of color in Belgium-France, he had to find alliances in a ‘mined landscape’ in order to feel safe and supported to pursue his artistic work. However, affects associated with POC in cultural production often refer to struggle, suffering, discrimination. Stanley want to counter that white gaze into POC communities by focusing on other, often disregarded emotions such as joy, calmness, rest, contemplative or eclectic energy.

Following the sharing of physical material, HAUT will facilitate a moderated feedback conversation where you as an audience have the opportunity to contribute to and enrich the artists' further work.