Snapping 2025 / Snap Dance
A multi-screen video installation by Michael Laub
Snapping 2025 / Snap Dance is the latest multi-screen video installation by acclaimed artist Michael Laub. The video portrait series features an intriguingly diverse array of individuals, and Snap Dance captures performers of dance ranging from ballet to hip-hop. The dancers move without music, the viewer hears only their footsteps, their breathing, the rustling of their costumes, and, of course, the snapping of their fingers.
Laub first produced a Snapping installation from 1981 to 1983 in Antwerp, Stockholm, and Bangkok and presented it there and in other locations. In 2021, while writing a book, he looked into his archives and found a trailer from that original installation, although he had lost the original footage. He grew curious to see if it could still be relevant today. This year, he decided to expand the concept by introducing a strong dance component.
Since 2011, Laub has gained renown for his production of The Portrait Series, which adapts classical portraiture to the stage. For more than two decades, he has employed live arts and video to capture wide socio-cultural, geographical, and professional cross-sections of society, exhibiting in various locations and cultural institutions across Europe and Asia.
Join us on Wednesday, November 12 at 6pm for the inauguration! The installation is in 3 parts, first the exhibition gallery, then Le Bistrot, and finally in the cinema.
After the inauguration, the installation is accessible according to the following schedule:
- November 13 from 10am to 12pm, then 6:30pm to 8pm
- November 14 from 10am to 12pm, then 2pm to 8pm
- November 15 from 10am to 12pm, then 1pm to 6pm
CREDIT
Michael Laub
Snapping 2025 / Snap Dance
Video installation
Produced by the French Institute of Cambodia
in co-production with Phare Ponleu Selpak and Michael Laub / Remote Control Productions
With: Snapping 2025: Anna Aleeva, Hak Chan, Ruon Dit, Vankosal Keo, Annalise Khen, Vanthy Khen, Dara Korn, Mathieu Ly, Rapech Loek, Chandy Mo, Coralie Morillon, Keokanitha Phalla, Clément Perocheau, Loeurt Phorn, Natalie Rasmey Devi Onezime, Reaksmey Yean, Em Riem, Khorn Soun, Chantrea Tob, Thina Tola, Sreythy Touch, Srey Pov Yoeun, Samnang Yorn
Snap Dance: Marloon Aranjuez, Océane Decroze, Svetlana Epifanova, Annalise Khen, Chomrern Khoun, Rae Price, Sambath Sat, Solida Sang, Nina Sek, Sokim Seng, Kim an Thorng, Sothydacharline Vanthan.
Solos: Annalise Khen, Rossika Khen, Rae Price, Sokim Seng, Svetlana Epifanova
Videos: Oyen Rodriguez
Sound: Chandy Mo and Chen Phy
Choreography adviser: Vanthy Khen
Production management: Coralie Morillon