The pages of Veronique Branquinho’s A#6 are filled with the artworks and stories of a varied group of accomplished, creative men who have touched her life with their unique gifts and personalities. One of these is the performing artist Sam Louwyck, who’s masterful use of the human body as his medium offers audiences a vibrant and cathartic display of raw masculinity and movement that spans drama and dance.

As a player in the 1990′s Flemish Wave (that brought a new, off-kilter vision to European theatre) Sam was a performer in Alain Patel’s ‘Les Ballets C de la B’ a dance company with contemporary and abstract visions, and has worked with Veronique Branquinho herself on an adaptation of Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro on stage in Belgium. He has played starring roles in ‘Anyway the wind blows’ and other features, and continues to direct and perform in extended works today. In A#6 we see Sam’s various guises across some of his many productions, and a short, handwritten poem that exhibits his dry yet sensitive humour.

Macho

“She walked down the stairs,

Long, teasing curls in her hair

Hair that grew all over her body

Thus, she caught the eye of

almost everybody.

She did not really feel like being here,

until he caught her there

sitting on the stair, crying,

feeling like dying.

He called her to her duty and

she proved to be an extraordinary woman,

although she was no beauty.”

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7lwMzA4Lic[/youtube]

An excerpt from “Anyway the Wind Blows” – see Sam’s performance after about two minutes in!