Body Body Body Body

Defying attempts at categorisation, BodyBodyBodyBody invites us to witness a liberating form of dance and to take part in a total experience where percussive music literally impregnates our body until it contaminates it… It’s hard to resist this exhilarating musical and choreographic journey to the edges of trance.

« Go Go Go Go » ! Urge musician and composer Dag Taeldeman and drummer Andrew Van Ostade in this electrifying dance concert. Wrapped up in intoxicating repetitive rhythm, transcended by the voice of soprano Lies Vandewege, the audience enters the dance led by Sardinian performer Matteo Sedda, rooted in the folk tradition of the Italian tarantella. Here everything interweaves and merges, reaching an emotional paroxysm: a magnetic oscillation between electro, guitar, drums and ritual music, electrified bodies and vocal power. BodyBodyBodyBody is a tidal wave that sweeps everything away, drawing its evocative power from the magic of folk traditions and treading a fine line between dance and music, past and present. Exhilaration, amazement, exhaustion, enjoyment…come and feel it!

Our Story

The ritualistic dance performance ‘Body body body body’ originated with the idea of Dag Taeldeman and Andrew Van Ostade to create a 1-hour long musical composition that would go against all pop-music-structure rules and move towards a big cathartic moment at the end. They composed this work using the taranta-rhythm and finished during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The composition contained electro, guitar riffs, bass, heavy drumming, mesmerizing chants and opera arias, sung by soprano Lies Vandewege

Once the composition was finished, they asked dancer Matteo Sedda (IT) to create an extatic choreography, going from ecstatic repetition to techno moves.

In March 2021 they shared a first try-out via a live stream from NTG Gent.

In August 2021 they performed a first live try-out at the PASS festival, in a church in Mullem, hosted by artist Kris Martin.

The performance was picked up by Key Performance, a diffusion office led by Koen Vanhove, who organised the tour for the show. Ever since, the performance has been touring all over Europe, with fantastic reviews and reactions of the audience.