© Charlie De Keersmaecker
Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe / Wouter Deltour / Muziektheater Transparant.
Chapters of Celebration
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- DE SINGEL, Antwerp
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- DE SINGEL, Antwerp
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- Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi, Charleroi
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- VIERNULVIER Club Wintercircus, Gent
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- VIERNULVIER Club Wintercircus, Gent
The musical leitmotif of this full-length dance marathon is Folies d’Espagne, a 15th-century musical theme from Iberia, its heartbeat heard throughout classical music history in arrangements by composers like Bach, Vivaldi and Rachmaninov. Wouter Deltour adapts the compositions into a contemporary whole for the musical ensemble B’Rock. Director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe asks six choreographers and six dancers, including well-known and young Spanish artists, to liberate the celebrating body in ‘chapters’. Baroque dance intersects with ballroom, jazz, and rave. In Chapters of Celebration, the political, ritual echoes of exuberance that humanity seems gradually to have lost resound anew.
Creation commissioned by EUROPALIA & DE SINGEL
Credits
Direction: Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
Assistant director: Ellada Damianou
Musical direction & composition: Wouter Deltour
Electronic music: Jesse Kanda , Wouter Deltour
Choreography: Michele Rizzo, Cherish Menzo, Lasseindra Ninja, Iker Karrera, Jeremy Nedd, Toni Jodar
Assistant choreographer: Eleni Ellada Damianou
Dance: Mabel Olea, Guillem Jiménez, Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, Emiel Vandenberghe, Toni Jodar, Patric da Cunha
Ensemble: B’Rock Orchestra
Sara DeCorso (violin), Blanca Prieto Acera (violin), Asako Ueda (lute, guitar), Amarilis Dueñas Castán (viola da gamba), Léa Kadian (bass guitar), Marc Vilajuana (percussion, vocals)
Dramaturgy: Persis Bekkering
Scenography / Lighting design: Danielle Van Riel, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
Paintings: Pieter Chanterie
Costume design: Eleni Ellada Damianou, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
Outside eye: Louise van den Eede
Stage manager: Anne van Es
Light operator: Danielle van Riel
Sound engineer: Roel Snellebrand
Commissioned by EUROPALIA & DE SINGEL
Production: Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, Wouter Deltour & MuziektheaterTransparant
Coproduction: EUROPALIA ESPAÑA, B’Rock Orchestra, DE SINGEL, Toneelhuis,Das Festspielhaus St. Pölten & Perpodium vzw
Supported by Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government