Performances in collaboration with Torinodanza Festival
With this new work, Alain Platel tries to find the beauty that is hidden in difficulties, in pain, and in disability. Spasms, convulsions and nervous tics are expressed in the choreography. The dramatist Hildegard De Vuyst wrote: “Out of Context is located in a mental space, a dive into the meanders of existence, in search of the roots of childhood and prehistory. Of something that is found in man and in animals, a sort of harmony that overcomes the duality of beauty and ugliness, good and evil, you and me, the individual and the community. Out of Context is a sort of ritual, a harvest in the middle of which one sets off to find an essence that cannot be found. In the meantime we live not what we are looking for, but what is worth the effort.” Les ballets C de la B is a company created in 1984 by dancer and choreographer Alain Platel. From the start it had the structure of a working platform combining several choreographers; Platel is joined by Christine De Smedt and Koen Augustijnen, but also Hans Van den Broeck and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The ensemble welcomes talented young artists, working in different disciplines, who contribute their own specific experience to the process of dramatic creation.
conceived and produced by Alain Platel
danced and created by Elie Tass, Emile Josse, Hyo Seung Ye, Kaori Ito,
Mathieu Desseigne Ravel, Mélanie Lomoff, Romeu Runa, Rosalba Torres Guerrero,
Ross Mc Cormack
les ballets C de la B (Belgium)
a Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)/Torinodanza Festival/Le Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg/Sadler’s Wells (London)/Stadsschouwburg Groningen/Tanzkongress 2009-Kulturstiftung des Bundes/Kaaitheater (Brussels)/Wiener Festwochen co-production
with the support of the Flemish authorities of the City of Ghent, Province of Eastern Flanders
les ballets C de la B is a Cultural Ambassador of UNESCO-IHE, institute for Water Education
Fonderie Limone Moncalieri | Italian première | Length 1h 30′
November 9 –10, 2010 | 8.30 pm
