In ‘Shapeless’, Charlotte Vanden Eynde is continuing the movement research she started in the solo ‘I’m Sorry It’s (Not) A Story’ (2009). But where in ‘I’m Sorry It’s (Not) A Story’ she was focusing on ‘meaning’, in this solo she is focusing her research on ‘form’, starting from purely physical, formal and dynamic qualities of movement. Especially the dynamic aspect gets her attention, in contrast to the stillness in her former works. Along with this, she is entering into dialogue with the dance vocabulary that has shaped her body as a dancer and that she has been rather neglecting or trying to get rid of in the past. Exploring the limits of abstraction, she never excludes emotion though.

Unlike her former work, music and sound are playing an important role in this piece. Also the lighting gets a more than supportive function. Dance, sound and light are treated like three independent layers crossing each other. Since in ‘Shapeless’, Vanden Eynde is partly leaving behind the stillness and the sculptural, imaginative quality characterizing her former work, this solo can be seen as a new step in her artistic development. The body is still her point of departure, but what she is looking for in this piece is a kind of ‘shapelessness’, something chaotic and elusive, a ‘form that isn’t a form’.

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