Ula Sickle

Ula Sickle is a choreographer and performer based in Brussels, Belgium. With a background in contemporary dance, she has worked in several fields, drawing on visual arts or contemporary music. Often accompanied by interpreters, she explores forms of choreographic writing, where the cultural coding and political power of our movements and gestures can be brought to centre stage.

Ula Sickle studied art history at Toronto University and performance arts at Paris University VIII, before joining the Performing Arts Research and Training Studios in Brussels. She followed a graduate programme in media at Le Fresnoy in northern France. She was a resident artist at Ujazdowski Castle, the Warsaw Contemporary Art Centre and the Wiels Arts Centre in Brussels.

She is presently a PhD researcher at the KU Leuven and Luca Art School in Brussels.

Ictus + Ula Sickle
Holding Present

 Dance, Music  Performance

A body joins another in motion. Another follows, and yet another. They build on each other. When do we perceive them as a multitude? 

Inspired visually, lyrically and sound-wise by protest, Holding Present, a new collaboration between choreographer Ula Sickle and Ictus, the Brussels contemporary music ensemble, examines how an individual act can become a powerful collective movement. Weaving a network of existing and newly-commissioned compositions, a group of eight performers (four musicians and four dancers) slowly builds up a movement, a momentum, as they work toward the breaking point where individuals become a critical mass. 

The performance also includes works by composers Alvin Lucier, Pauline Oliveros, Didem Coskunseven and Stellan Veloce, with the musical instruments of the artist Gert Aertsen. 

Performances – Friday, 16 to Sunday, 18 June 2023 – on reservation

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