PERFORMER

Skatepark

2023–Ongoing
International Tour (Sadler's Wells London, Powerhouse New York, Wiener Festwochen, among others)
Abril 2023
World Premiere / Cndc, Angers

Skatepark is an expansive, large-scale ensemble performance created by Mette Ingvartsen that explores the velocity, energy, and physical memory of movement on wheels. Bringing together an intergenerational group of professional dancers, local skaters, and youth, the work treats the theater stage as a fluid, communal concrete park. It frames skateboarding not merely as a subcultural pastime or a spectacle of virtuoso feats, but as a visceral choreographic language that actively reclaims, maps, and subverts urban geography.
The choreography honors the rigorous, gritty reality of the practice; a continuous cycle of trying, falling, and collectively pushing the boundaries of physical possibility. By orchestrating the boisterous interactions, speed trajectories, and inevitable physical collisions of bodies on wheels, Skatepark constructs a temporary, self-organizing microcosm on stage. Oscillating between individual persistence and collective reliance, the performance emerges as a blueprint for an alternative, highly adaptive society we can learn from.

Concept and Choreography: Mette Ingvartsen
Performance Ensembles: Damien Delsaux, Manuel Faust, Aline Boas, Mary Pop Wheels, Sam Gelis, Fouad Nafili, Júlia Rúbies Subirós, Thomas Bîrzan, Briek Neuckermans, Indreas Kifleyesus, Arthur Vannes, Camille Gecchele, Mathias Thiers, Bob Aertsen, Bo Huyghebaert, Nona De Neve, and local skate communities
Sound Design: Anne van de Star and Peter Lenaerts
Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejić
Production: Great Investment vzw
Co-production: La Danse en grande forme, Ruhrtriennale, Wiener Festwochen, Tanzquartier Wien, La Villette, Théâtre Chaillot, deSingel, Kaaitheater, Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, VIERNULVIER, Next Festival, Charleroi danse, Theater Rotterdam, Perpodium
Supported by: Fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, The Flemish Authorities

Selected Global Tour Archive

2026 Tour: Dansehallerne (Copenhagen), Kampnagel (Hamburg), Dansenshus (Stockholm), La Filature (Mulhouse), Cultuurhuis de Warande (Turnhout), Chassé Theater (Breda).
2025 Tour: Powerhouse International Festival (New York), National Arts Centre (Ottawa), Sadler’s Wells (London), Mercat de les Flors (Barcelona), Culturgest (Lisbon), Teatro Municipal do Porto, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen (Hannover), Amare (The Hague), C-Mine (Genk).
2024 Tour: Julidans (Amsterdam), Tanz im August (Berlin), Theaterfestival Basel, Mousonturm (Frankfurt), Les Nuits de Fourvière (Lyon), asphalt Festival (Dusseldorf), ThéâtredelaCité (Toulouse), Le Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Le Lieu Unique (Nantes).
2023 Premiere Season: Cndc (Angers), Théâtre Chaillot & La Villette (Paris), Wiener Festwochen (Vienna), Ruhrtriennale (Bochum), Festival de Marseille, deSingel (Antwerp), Dansenshus (Oslo), Kaaitheater & Théâtre National (Brussels).