wanted: communications officer (m/f/x) 01.09.'21
Vacancy communications officer (m/f/x) Organisation Job description/Tasks Profile Skills Offer How to apply info@lesballetscdela.be , by 19 September 2021.
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15.09.'21
After a covid cancellation last year, Ehsan Hemat is back this year at BITEF, Belgrade's international theater festival.I put a spell on you Ehsan Hemat took the concept of ‘forced isolation’ as the starting point, which is connected to privacy in relation to an authority. Three bodies are locked up in a space unable to escape from the constant presence of the supreme observer, having lost all notion of privacy. Technological and media control and manipulation are intruding from all sides.I put a spell on you at BITEF, Belgrade: 21-22 Sept 2021. More info via this link . I put a spell on you was developed in Co-laBo residency #09. Want to read more about I put a spell on you ? Please, click here .
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17.09.'21
Time for Another Sacre Together with the final year students of the dance department of Artesis Plantijn University College of Antwerp, Alain Platel and Bérengère Bodin made a contemporary version of Le Sacre du Printemps. After a year of confinement in mind and body, twelve dancers went into the dance studio to vibrate together again. You missed the show at DANSAND last summer? Take this second chance and come to Toneelhuis , September 25 at 3pm. ANOTHER SACRE Another Sacre was made. There have been times when our spirits were low and we were on the verge of cancelling everything. Although this was actually not an option anymore: something was needed to give both the students, the whole team of the dance department and ourselves some hope and perspective.Le Sacre du Printemps .Le Sacre was also analysed: the story of a young girl who is sacrificed to make the harvest succeed was of course dated and had to be read as a saga, not of here and not of now. But we all agreed that the music is composed in such a way that it can cause a form of catharsis for both performers and listeners. We showed film fragments of concerts conducted by Teodor Currentzis, a conductor who asks his musicians to perform the music in an upright position. This results in concertante versions that look like dance performances, and this inspired the group. Another Sacre ! The umpteenth attempt to make this music visual by means of a performance. And anyone who thinks they can make a better version than the one by Vaslav Nijinsky or Pina Bausch, better doesn't start it. This concerns a Sacre made, carried and defended by the twelve final-year students of the Royal Conservatory Antwerp. Another Sacre , then, one in which the twelve final-year students move through in their very own way, separately, with each other and with one aim: to vibrate together. After one year of being locked up in mind and body, that was exactly what we needed so badly. And perhaps this is a contemporary reading of what a Sacre du Printemps can be?
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13.09.'21
AUDITION FOR SINGERS For a new production by director Lisaboa Houbrechts, les ballets C de la B in co-production with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen , Opéra de Lille, MC93 Maison de la Culture de Seine-Saint Denis, Le Phénix Scène nationale Valenciennes, Comédie de Genève and Toneelhuis Antwerpen are looking for 4 singers :soprano will perform the role of a mother, a widow. This is a physical, non-textual role.countertenor / alto / mezzo-soprano . A singer who is given a small textual role in the story.tenor will perform the role of the priest and the messenger. He makes the bridge between the musical and theatrical texts.baritone / bass-baritone / bass will perform the role of Jesus. He represents the divine. It is a constant physical role. P r o f i l e A u d i t i o n p r o c e s s Pre-selection info@lesballetscdela.be by 10th October 2021 .Audition Day 1 – Ghent, 31 October 2021 – First Round Audition Day 2 – Ghent, 2 November 2021 – Second Round nº15 “Wer hat dich so geschlagen” nº1 “Herr, unser Herrscher” P r a c t i c a l i n f o r m a t i o n
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12.07.'21
Ten years after the successful worldwide tour, Gardenia returns to the scene under the title Gardenia – 10 years later . Different times, same cast. Or not quite: the sexagenarians have become septuagenarians, the years moved on and left their mark. One of the actors has exchanged this world for eternity. With eight they reprise the show co-directed by Frank Van Laecke and Alain Platel. After a series this summer in NTGent and the world premiere at ImpulsTanz in Vienna, Gardenia – 10 years later is going on a Belgian and European tour this autumn. Yo soy así , in which the closing of a transvestite cabaret in Barcelona affords us a glimpse into the private lives of a memorable group of old artists, Gardenia was created in 2010: not a work of fiction, but a singular account, an intimate tale.Gardenia played more than two hundred performances worldwide and just before the final curtain fell, the documentary Before the last curtain falls portrayed the lives of the cast.In avant-première: 1-2 July 2021 – Festival de Marseille (FR) https://www.lesballetscdela.be/en/projects/productions/gardenia-10-years-later/info/
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'Mein Gent' at GIF, Kunstencentrum Vooruit 15.09.'21
'Mein Gent' at GIF, Kunstencentrum Vooruit
New collaboration between Frank Van Laecke, Alain Platel and Steven Prengels
Mein Gent at Ghent International Festival in January 2022Mein Gent , directors Frank Van Laecke and Alain Platel realize a long-cherished dream they share with each other: to pay tribute to Ghent, the city with which they are thoroughly intertwined. Both Ghent townsmen found each other ten years ago in making music theatre performances. Supported by soundscapes composed by Steven Prengels, they dive with each performance into a most extraordinary universe to tell about the little and the great tragedies in life. Remind Gardenia in 2010 or also En avant, marche! in 2015.Mein Gent , in which a large group of Ghentians will play alongside the regular cast.Mein Gent GIF, Kunstencentrum Vooruit .
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Publication 'who wants to dance with me' 27.07.'21
Publication Who wants to dance with me - a retrospective in photos We would like to look back on the exhibition with which les ballets C de la B let us look into its workrooms and its soul last May. In cooperation with Pierre Muylle, Who wants to dance with me Who wants to dance with me . (! The photo book includes a small amount of text, which is in Dutch only.) More info can be found here: https://www.kvde.be/jardincour.html
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les ballets C de la B – the playlist 16.04.'21
The history of les ballets C de la B in music? That’s 19 hours of enjoyment. You can find it on Spotify: click this link to listen.WHO WANTS TO DANCE WITH ME here .your tickets in advance.
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30.03.'21
Read more about the ins and outs of our company - you'll find it in this blog .
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Necropolis online at Vagamondes festival 18.01.'21
Organized by La Filature in Mulhouse (FR), Les Vagamondes festival offers an international and multidisciplinary outlook and strives to overcome borders through various artistic works. This year’s online edition will be devoted to the Mediterranean space. It presents a focus on Arkadi Zaides’ most recent works Talos and Necropolis , that both question the migratory movements happening in Europe and at its borders.Talos by Arkadi Zaides : VIDEO N° 387 disparu en Méditerranée , by Madeleine Leroyer, of which the research has inspired Arkadi Zaides for Necropolis : FILM Necropolis by Arkadi Zaides : VIDEO Necropolis , Arkadi Zaides had a residency at ballets C de la B (Co-laBo #18 here .
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Want to be invited to our studio? 30.03.'21
We will gladly keep you in the loop about open rehearsals or presentations. Fill in your e-mail address here and you'll be added to the mailinglist which we only use to announce these open studio moments.Note: Under the current corona-measures, it's impossible to invite an audience in our studio. But as soon as it is possible, you'll hear from us.
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10.05.'19
Since 2004 les ballets C de la B lends its active support to a cultural boycott of Israel. Because of the increasing tension, les ballets C de la B relaunches the call to support the cultural boycott of Israel. Alain Platel emphasizes the relaunch with an open letter:Open letter by Alain Platel (les ballets C de la B). really am not much of a hero and it is always with a heavy heart that I swing into action, when I feel that it is necessary. It is even harder when I am forced to disagree with fellow artists – whose work I admire immensely – in this respect when they claim that these kinds of actions or statements either are not ours to take or make, or don’t help matters whatsoever.and Palestinian artists, both in the Occupied Territories and here in Belgium, however, leaves me no choice. Since my first visit to the Occupied Territories – in 2001, and this during the intifada – I became convinced that the resolution of the conflict in this part of the world could be crucial and could give a huge boost to a positive development in the whole region, and by extension, East-West relationships as a whole. Of course, this is very naïve and utopian, but I believe that harbouring such utopian hopes is a good thing. After all, I see very little or no evidence of how the existing political and military structures do/did get things moving.why , more than ever, I want to make a plea for a delicate, yet special citizens’ initiative: the support for the (cultural) boycott of Israel.everywhere in the Occupied Territories.every day in Palestinian territories. Every day, Palestinians are still being harassed, discriminated against, picked up, locked up or – where ‘necessary’ – simply shot. The OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), a United Nations humanitarian organisation, for instance, regularly publishes the shocking figures of the ‘invisible victims’ who are killed there every year. (see: http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_the_humanitarian_monitor_2014_10_02_english.pdf ).real , constructive and permanent solutions. A (cultural) boycott is nonviolent but is incredibly irritating and with ardent advocates such as archbishop Desmond Tutu is in very good company.www.bacbi.be www.vrede.be this link .
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18.10.'17
Les ballets C de la B wants to invest in the next generation by taking in residents who will get the opportunity to be coached in their work by director Alain Platel and Hildegard Devuyst, Platel’s dramaturg for more than 20 years. The basic idea are one-month-residencies in one of the studios at les ballets. There are no prefixed artistic conditions, no exclusives when it comes to form or movement language. Young artists who think their work would benefit from a residency, can apply by mailing to Hildegard De Vuyst. hildegard@lesballetscdela.be
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22.11.'19
les ballets C de la B supports HART BOVEN HARD www.hartbovenhard.be
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