{"id":51679,"date":"2026-03-11T14:49:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/?p=51679"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T16:28:14","slug":"queer-bodies-softcore-and-hardcore-alban-ovanessians-hardcore-tours-liege-lausanne-and-horst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ket.brussels\/en\/2026\/03\/11\/queer-bodies-softcore-and-hardcore-alban-ovanessians-hardcore-tours-liege-lausanne-and-horst\/","title":{"rendered":"Queer bodies, softcore and hardcore: Alban Ovanessian\u2019s\u00a0hardcore\u00a0tours Li\u00e8ge, Lausanne and Horst"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Queer choreographer Alban Ovanessian brings their intense, utopian performance hardcore<\/em> to Lausanne and Li\u00e8ge this March, before opening Horst Arts & Music Festival in 2027. The piece, which fuses softcore and hardcore aesthetics in a radical celebration of queer bodies, is quickly becoming a reference in contemporary dance and performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A queer utopia in motion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In hardcore<\/em>, Alban Ovanessian imagines a queer, post-emancipation bodily utopia where bodies are finally liberated, affirmed and heroised. On stage, four performers move through constellations of identities and experiences, pushing their physical limits through effort, repetition and endurance. The work embraces both softcore and hardcore aesthetics, not as opposites, but as frictions that generate new ways of being together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The piece has already been presented in Brussels at La Balsamine<\/a>, where it was described as a space for future and present bodies: resilient, marginalised, and yet fully central on stage. Ovanessian, a queer Franco-Armenian dancer, performer and choreographer based in Brussels, draws on a rich background across fashion, cinema and performance to craft a universe where queer bodies are not simply represented, but affirmed as active forces of transformation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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