Andros Zins-Browne in residence

Andros will be working for two weeks on a commission from Les Subsistances, Lyon, assigned to create create a work with a piece of music of American contemporary composer David Lang. It should maybe be noted that Andros never worked on dance from the perspective of music before. The assignment interested him because, after a lot of initial resistance, he wondered what could still be done with the rather conventional set up of dance and music, with live musicians and a set composition. Andros became curious to know if he could in fact develop concepts of movement which would be beyond or outside of the social and political concerns that tend to motivate his work. Is there still anything radical, formally speaking, to be done in ‘dance’?

Andros Zins-Browne (US) was born in 1981 in New York City. He moved to Brussels in 2002 to attend PARTS and graduated in 2006 with five works, several of which he still performs. Since then he has created “Second Life” (2008), a piece with elderly people over 70 years old; “Neverland” (2008), a hologram video installation with a professional Michael Jackson impersonator; “The Host” (2010). Andros is an associated artist at wp Zimmer, Antwerp and in the fine art research department at the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht.