Viewmaster by visual artist Laurent Liefooghe and choreographers Heike Langsdorf and Ula Sickle is a performance as well as an installation that shows a contemporary version of the renowned “Pepper’s ghost illusion”. In nineteenth century theatre, before the invention of cinema, this optic trick was often employed to make ghosts and spirits appear out of nowhere on the stage. This often thrilled and unnerved the public, to which the secrets of the trick were not unveiled. The essentially simple trick works as follows: the viewer and the performer are separated by a glass partition. Depending on the light, the glass is either transparent, mirroring or both at the same time. In the installation trail you can try out these optical effects for yourself. In the evening the trio will give a performance in the installation during which they blend illusion and reality in a visual game. The audience will be misled more than once.

Rebecca September is neither a dance company nor a collective. It is a label used to produce work made by artists from different disciplines who lend their knowledge and experience towards a specific project. The work can have different points of departure and can result in different presentation formats. Despite this interdisciplinary outlook, an interest in choreography and live performance continues to be central.
Rebecca September vzw was created in September 2004. The first production, Knockout, brought together dancer/cho¬reographer Ula Sickle, visual artist Alexis Destoop, sound designer/musician Peter Lenaerts and dancer Tawny Ander¬sen. Drawing on the specific knowledge of the different members of the group, the goal of the working process was to inform dance and choreography with the modes of production of visual art, cinema and electronic sound production, interests which have continued to be central. Knockout premiered at the Monty in October 2005 and has since been shown in Netwerk, Aalst, Dans in Kortrijk, the Brakke Grond, Amsterdam and at Pact Zollverein, Essen.
The second Rebecca Spetember production, Ula was joined by German born and Brussels based performance maker Heike Langsdorf and Belgian visual artist and architect Laurent Leifooghe. Viewmaster was co-produced by Netwerk / Center for Contemporary Art, and premiered in October 2007. It has since been shown as part of Dedonderdagen in de Singel, Antwerp (February 2008), as part of shuffle at the Kaaistudios (August/September 2008) and as part of the Almost Cinema Festival in the Vooruit (October 2008).

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