09.06.'21
Gardenia - 10 years later Gardenia - 10 years later Gardenia " from 2010. The performance by Frank Van Laecke, Alain Platel and Steven Prengels will have its avant-premiere at the Festival de Marseille and then play for a fortnight in NTGent for a limited audience. The world premiere will take place on 7 August at ImpulsTanz in Vienna.following this link . Festival de Marseille NTGent (ticket sales start on 9 June) ImpulsTanz Vienna tour in autumn 2021
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11.06.'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. 18 en 19 June, deSingel (theaterzaal), for a limited audience.DANSAND festival , Ostend. 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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13.05.'21
Thanks to the registration by Beeldstorm, you can watch nicht schlafen here on vimeo . Who wants to dance with me Tauberbach , nicht schlafen and Gardenia .
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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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New distribution/sales assistant 09.04.'21
New distribution/sales assistant Selma and Sofiane Ouissi and so her path crossed ours. Welcome Helena!
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Mein Gent: postponed to 2022 31.03.'21
By making Mein 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
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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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