Show co-produced by Le Gymnase CDCN
The performance on 10 March is part of the programme of the Maison de la Culture in Amiens; the performance on 13 March is co-produced by Le Gymnase and Le Bateau Feu; the performance on 21 March is co-produced by Le Gymnase and Le Phénix.
Jan Martens takes over the “big stage” where he forms an atypical “corps de ballet”: on stage, 17 performers with unique personalities who differ in age, gender, origins, experience or dance. By cultivating its diverseness, this group resists the established order and dogmas of society, symbolised by the words of Chinese president Xi Jinping during the protests in Hong Kong: “Any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones”.
Choreography: Jan Martens – Performers: Ty Boomershine, Truus Bronkhorst, Jim Buskens, Zoë Chungong, Piet Defrancq, Naomi Gibson, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Steven Michel, Gesine Moog, Dan Mussett, Wolf Overmeire, Tim Persent, Courtney May Robertson, Laura Vanborm, Loeka Willems and – alternating – Pierre Bastin, Georgia Boddez, Zora Westbroek, Lia Witjes-Poole, Camilla Bundel, Paolo Yao [on tour], Abigail Aleksander, Maisie Woodford, Simon Lelievre, Solal Mariotte [understudies], Baptiste Cazaux – Artistic assistant: Anne-Lise Brevers – Lighting: Jan Fedinger – Lighting assistant: Vito Walter – Costumes: Cédric Charlier – Costumes assistant: Alexandra Sebbag, Thibault Kuhn – Outside eyes: Marc Vanrunxt, Renée Copraij, Rudi Meulemans and Siska Baeck – Text: Spring by Ali Smith – Technical director: Michel Spang – Technicians: Valentijn Weyn, Bart Van Hoydonck or Nele Verreyken
Production : GRIP en collaboration avec Dance On Ensemble. Coproduction : deSingel – Anvers, Theater Freiburg, Sadler’s Wells – Londres, Julidans – Amsterdam, Festival d’Avignon, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, Norrlandsoperan – Umeå, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève, ADC – Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Genève, tanzhaus nrw – Düsseldorf, Le Parvis – Scène nationale Tarbes-Pyrénéés, La Danse en grande forme — Projet de l’A-CDCN et de l’ACCN : CNDC – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux – La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’Échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, L’Atelier de Paris – CDCN, Collectif Fair-e / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD – CDCN Strasbourg, La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie, Perpodium. Soutien : De Grote Post – Ostende, Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles, CCNO – Orléans en collaboration avec la Scène nationale d’Orléans, December Dance –Concertgebouw, CC Brugge, Gouvernement flamand, Ville d’Anvers, Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédéral belge, Cronos Invest. Remerciement : Jean Chabert (STANLEY/STELLA), Wannes Labath, Nadine Scheuer, de! Kunsthumaniora.
Saturday 11 March
