Festina Lente, Latin for „Make Haste Slowly“, is an installation of five dancers, being set in motion by the public.
A colorful, vibrant choreography emerges, filled with surprises, creating an open and stimulating atmosphere through the spontaneous interplay between the audience and the performers. The audience is conducting the rhythm of the performance and the development of the events. Sometimes the spectators conduct single movements, then the movement of the entire group. Sometimes abstract dynamics are affected; sometimes the dramaturgic line of the entire piece is influenced by the public.

At the same time Festina lente sets a framework for the audience and the performers to appear and experiment:

While the dancers are confronted with their various limits – what if the game does not work? What if the audience does not help? – The spectators are invited to find their way through and between social convention and their own desire. How do our wishes, hopes and will, affect our feeling of time? Do we choose to shape events or do we remain observers? What happens when we realize that we aren’t alone with our goals, and our pursuits become a collective process? Can we count on one another?

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Born in France, she studied architecture in Paris in the ENSAAMA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Appliqués et Métiers d'Arts), and worked two years as an architect in Le Bon Marché Paris (Group LVMH). She graduated in choreography in ArtEZ Arnhem (former EDDC) in the Netherlands. Malgven Gerbes choreographed and performed for group collaborative projects in Tanzhaus NRW Düsseldorf, in the Forum Freies Theater in Düsseldorf, for the Miryang Summer Festival in Korea, the Seoul Performing
Arts Festival DANCE 2010 Munich, les Hivernales d'Avignon, among others. She was guest professor
for one semester in the choreographic department
at the Korean National University of the Arts (KNUA)
in autumn 2007, in the choreographic department of ArtEZ Arnhem in spring 2008, in Dartington College
of arts - UK in 2009. She regularly teaches for professional dancers in places such as Tanzfabrik Berlin, Labor Gras Berlin, Session House Tokyo.

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