Pace Live

Ndoho Ange, Maëva Berthelot, KINN

Live from Latifa Echakhch's Night Time

Tuesday, May 3
7 – 9 PM
5 Hanover Square
London

Event Details:

Ndoho Ange
Maëva Berthelot
KINN
Live from Latifa Echakhch's Night Time
Tuesday, May 3
7 – 9 PM
5 Hanover Square
London

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Above: Ndoho Ange, image courtesy of the artist; Maëva Berthelot, image credit: Paul Calver; KINN, image credit: Matt Maurice

To mark the closing of Latifa Echakhch’s solo presentation Night Time at our London gallery, this performance will take place within the exhibition.

This live event centers on two Paris-based dancers, Maëva Berthelot and Ndoho Ange, whose performances will respond to the night-time sounds of producer and multi-instrumentalist Kinn.

Classically trained and improvised dance choreographers, Berthelot and Ange will move through the space and engage with Echakhch’s enigmatic paintings. Their improvisational movements suggest bodies yearning to return to dance, to composition, and to community. Filled with music, the gallery will become a haunted dance floor enlivened by Kinn’s sonic landscape, creating a new multi-sensory environment to view Echakhch’s work.

Ndoho .jpg — Image courtesy of the artist

Ndoho Ange

A dancer and visual artist based in France, Ndoho Ange questions the sacred act of oneself through digital aesthetics. Are we dreaming our screens? Are our thoughts guided by digital algorithms? What about tales and legends? This research on “otherness”, the other self, plunges her into a singular aesthetic in which she plays with textures so that the work becomes a mirror for those who see it.

Movement is at the center of her visual work, which explores the transformation of self as in dreams, where everything is both known and unknown. Through different mediums—live performances, photography, and video—she explores wanderings of thought and migration of the body. Dreams, trance, consciousness, and identity are at the centre of her creative journey. Ange’s work cultivates a unique aesthetic wherein digital and ancestral rites merge into a loop, a perpetual reboot.

Image credit: Paul Calver

Maëva Berthelot

Maëva Berthelot is a choreographer, performer, movement director, and teacher whose mode of working unfolds along the threshold between experimental, performative, and collaborative approaches.

Since graduating in 2003 from Paris Superior Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Berthelot has collaborated with choreographers such as Emanuel Gat, Ohad Naharin, Sharon Eyal, Clod Ensemble, and Hofesh Shechter Company. Drawing from improvisational and somatic practices, her research is rooted in a movement practice that is an ongoing inquiry into the themes of consciousness, transformation, healing, death, and rebirth. Her work intends to create a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, drawing attention to the tension between the conscious and unconscious, material and immaterial realms, and the play between rehearsed and improvised. Fascinated by the phenomenon of channeling, Berthelot is constantly exploring ways to steer the body into a trance, dream, or self-hypnotic state. She places an emphasis on the importance of preparation to access those states in which the body can be utilized as a sensitive, awakened, and connected vessel.

KINN

As Kinn, producer and multi-instrumentalist Frederick Lomas explores dread through heavy and eerie sound. Hailing from London, Kinn first emerged in 2020 with the release of his debut album “Anamnesis Landscape” (First Light Records). He turned heads with his intricate textures and cinematic soundscapes, often in long and dynamic compositions that develop through ecstatic highs and dread-inducing lows.

Taking inspiration from early influences in post-rock and early 2000s DIY aesthetics (GY!BE, The Microphones), Kinn works with acoustic instrumentation and labour-intensive studio experimentation that is contrasted by his contemporary sound design skills and love of electronic music.

A keen collaborator, Kinn now functions with a “revolving door band” ideology, inviting various instrumentalists and friends on stage and in the studio, giving a unique experience to each performance. As with recent performances at Cafe OTO and Fold (Canning Town), Kinn’s live shows are visceral and cathartic, offering only brief moments of respite.