Name: Soirée D’études
Start: 2027-01-09 16:00:00+11:00
End: 2027-01-10 16:30:00+11:00
Location: Carriageworks

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A stark white square, silence, three dancers in casual jeans, white tops, sneakers: this is not your typical house dance party. Soiree D’etudes, or “Study Night” is Belgian choreographer Cassiel Gaube’s intimate deconstruction of club culture’s intricate and joyful movement language.

These études strip house dance of its familiar musical context. At first, the dancers groove to a beat we can't hear. In the disquieting absence of expected music, the percussive rhythm of their graceful footwork against the floor becomes its own pulse. The beat is outlined in their form, expanding from solos to duos and all together in an echoing trinity as each one studies, replicates, and transforms what came before.

Tension builds until finally the hidden soundtrack floods the room and the full dance comes together in a euphoric conclusion. In this loving homage, Cassiel Gaube proves that sometimes even the sum of the parts can be as great as the whole.  

Soirée D’études is part of the Dance Reflections by Van Cleef and Arpels program. Discover more here.

“A rousing moment of pure euphoria and ecstasy”

PZAZZ

Free Dance

Cassiel Gaube 

Belgium 

In his 2019 solo Farmer Train Swirl – Étude and his 2021 trio Soirée d’études, Cassiel Gaube delved into the kinesthetic possibilities of house dance. Through his theoretical project ftwrk, he developed a movement notation system focused on footwork. In his 2025 solo MOTEUR, he explores the intersections between the rich lexicons of house dance, classical ballet and post-modern practices. His work has been performed over a hundred times internationally, at leading institutions including the Musée de l’Orangerie (Paris), KANAL – Centre Pompidou (Brussels), Rockefeller Center (New York) and Villa Medici (Rome). He regularly worked with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, particularly on West Side Story(2019) and Dark Red – Neue Nationalgalerie (2022), which they co-signed and performed together in Berlin. In 2022, he also created a solo for the Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon. A graduate of P.A.R.T.S., he has been an associate artist at La Ménagerie de Verre and CN D in Paris.

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