Gravity that binds us (werktitel)

How do you keep getting to know each other when you know each other inside out?
At Gravity that binds us Alesya Dobysh and Simon Bus draw on their shared past. After more than ten years of living and creating together, they come together on stage in a duet in which love is not merely told, but embodied.
Their roots lie in house and breaking, but over the years their physical languages have each taken their own direction. It is precisely in these differences that space for encounter is created. Through rhythm and silence, closeness and distance, a choreography unfolds in which two bodies continue to challenge, question and surprise one another.

Gravity that binds us is an intimate and evocative performance about the traces left behind by time, and about the art of continuing to encounter one another, time and time again.

Simon Bus has been a creator at DansBrabant since 2024. Together with Alesya, he and she are developing their own movement language as a creative duo. His hip-hop background and his fascination with movement portraits bring colour and direction to his work.
Alesya Dobysh has been with DansBrabant (PLANmaker) since 2024. Alesya comes from the (Moscow) street and club scene, where she developed a love for house dance – a club style that emphasises the combination of articulate footwork and a heavy flow.

Press coverage of AWOL:
‘Living Painting’ powerfully subverts the ‘boys will be boys’ symbolism. Dobysh and Bus thus prove once again what skilled professionals they are. Just as William Forsythe does with ballet, in AWOL they take the dance techniques they have mastered out of their usual context (the performers and creators come from the world of club and street styles). They adapt these as they see fit to allow them to shine as an abstract ‘language’. (Jordi Ribot Thunnissen – Theaterkrant – Critic’s Choice)