BREAK ALIVE

BREAK ALIVE is a collaboration between breakdancer Bboy Khaire and a visual artist Alice Bischof. They combine their respective art forms into a performance characterized by the rapid rhythms of street breakdance, and the absolute silence of paintings. Dancing and painting enter into a dynamic dialogue, each art form absorbing elements of the other: the breakdancer stands still (“freeze”) like a painting, the painting enters the urban space “alive” like the dancer.

BREAK ALIVE brings together the results of a three-year dialogue between the two artists about the possibilities and limitations of creativity in the midst of our current socio-cultural, political and economic network. This network organises, shapes, categorises and structures our being alive. Creativity uses this order, the existing forms, categories and structures, builds on them, and breaks them, dissolving old categories and creating new ones. BREAK ALIVE explores this process as a rhythmic relation between silence, standstill, and structure on the one hand and movement, expression, creative formations on the other. Creativity makes us feel alive.