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LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Dance
EXIT ABOVE
after the tempest Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Meskerem Mees, Jean-Marie Aerts, Carlos Garbin / Rosas
after the tempest
Presentation
For EXIT ABOVE, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker retraces her steps: to the roots of dance, the roots of Western pop music. The starting point for the performance is the song Walking Blues by legendary blues artist Robert Johnson; even though the journey leads back to Der Wanderer by Schubert, the best known singer-songwriter of the 19th Century. Meskerem Mees, a singer songwriter of today, composed a series of variations and adaptations of ‘walking songs’, together with Jean-Marie Aerts, sound architect of the Belgian 80s rock formation TC Matic, and with dancer and guitarist Carlos Garbin.
These songs invite De Keersmaeker to embark on a journey towards the starting point of choreography itself – walking, the primary form of movement, so familiar that we hardly stop to think about it. EXIT ABOVE explores the tension between marching together and stepping out, between romantic solitary ‘wandern’ (wandering) and the political potential of a group of unarmed people walking together, the individual and the collective, the line and the circle. A performance revealing the extent to which our inner world is also a landscape of thoughts and reminiscences that can often only be traversed on foot.
This production is part of Troika Dance
Gallery
Cast
Cast
ChoreographyANNE TERESA DE KEERSMAEKER Created with and dansed byABIGAIL ALEKSANDER, JEAN PIERRE BURÉ, LAV CRNČEVIĆ, JOSÉ PAULO DOS SANTOS, RAFA GALDINO, CARLOS GARBIN, NINA GODDERIS, SOLAL MARIOTTE, MESKEREM MEES, MARIANA MIRANDA, ARIADNA NAVARRETE VALVERDE, CINTIA SEBŐK, JACOB STORER MusicMESKEREM MEES, JEAN-MARIE AERTS, CARLOS GARBIN Music performed by MESKEREM MEES, CARLOS GARBIN Text and LyricsMESKEREM MEES, WANNES GYSELINCK Opening TextWALTER BENJAMIN ÜBER DEN BEGRIFF DER GESCHICHTE, THÈSE IX DramaturgyWANNES GYSELINCK ScenographyMICHEL FRANÇOIS Light designMAX ADAMS Costumes designAOUATIF BOULAICH Rehearsal DirectorsCYNTHIA LOEMIJ, CLINTON STRINGER Artistic Coordination and PlanningANNE VAN AERSCHOT Assistant to the Artistic DirectorMARTINE LANGE TourmanagerJOLIJN TALPE Technical DirectorTHOMAS VERACHTERT Technicians JAN BALFOORT, PIETER KINT, INES MAES SoundALEX FOSTIER Costume CoördinatorALEXANDRA VERSCHUEREN assisted byELS VAN BUGGENHOUT WardrobeELS VAN BUGGENHOUT, ALEXANDRA VERSCHUEREN SewingCHIARA MAZZAROLO, MARTHA VERLEYEN
ProductionROSAS CoproductionLA MONNAIE (BRUSSELS)
CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE (BRUGES),
INTERNATIONAAL THEATER AMSTERDAM,
LE THÉÂTRE GARONNE (TOULOUSE),
GIE FONDOC OCCITANIE
World Première
31 may 2023, Théatre National, Brussels
presented by Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, De Munt/ La Monnaie, Kaaitheater and Kunstenfestivaldesarts
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Acknowledgements
Baptiste Alexandre, Naomie Bentein, Bert De Swert, Michel Dierickx, Steven Fillet, Nicolas Fiszman, Ann-Sofie Merlier, Miet Ongena, Tom Pauwels, Jean-Luc Plouvier, Olivier Thys, Alexandra Verschueren
This production is realized with the support of the Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government, in collaboration with Casa Kafka Pictures.
Rosas is supported by the Flemish Community and by the Flemish Community Commission (VGC).
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