JAN MARTENS

VOICE NOISE • Premiere

Book event

AN ODE TO DANCE, TO EQUALITY AND FREEDOM FOR WOMEN, FOR THE BODY AND THE MIND.

Start with six dancers (women or men) and thirteen songs (popular or recent), written by women between 1935 and 2023. The songs from a range of countries from India to Norway, and including political songs from America, combine to form a microcosm of the human race. The response in dance is from Jan Martens, a sculptor of feelings, movements and physical states, bringing festive atmospheres capable of bending time. Each person, each body, from the smallest to the tallest, can dance with the same freedom and significance either as a group or in breathtaking solos conjuring up tales of love and war. VOICE NOISE has been designed as a tribute to women, but also provides every member of the audience with a documentary report presenting the lyrics to the songs and eye-witness testimony, as female composers and lyricists address art, life and the status of women. The artistic venture is perfect, generous and never didactic.

Thomas Hahn

Duration

01:30

Price

From €8 to €33

Schedules

15:00, 20:00

Place

TDV-Sarah Bernhardt - Great hall

GRIP
Choreography Jan Martens

Music 13 pieces written and sung by women
Rehearsal directors Zora Westbroek, Naomi Gibson
Lighting design Jan Fedinger
Costumes design Sofie Durnez
Scenography Joris van Oosterwijk
Sound engineer Vincent Philippart, Valentijn Weyn, Jo Heijens
Vocal coach Ine Claes, Maxime Montjotin
Costume design and scenography Théâtre de Liège
Trainees Malick Cissé, Sien Wils
Artistic advisors Marc Vanrunxt, Rudi Meulemans, Femke Gyselinck
Trailers and teasers Stanislav Dobák
Graphic design Nick Mattan
Technicians on tour in Paris Elke Verachtert, Vincent Philippart, Nele Verreyken

With
Elisha Mercelina, Courtney May Robertson, Loeka Willems, Sue-Yeon Youn
Steven Michel (except nov. 21), Pierre-Adrien Touret (nov. 21 & 22), Mamadou Wagué (except nov. 22)

Production GRIP. (Hanne Doms, Anneleen Hermans, Rudi Meulemans, Lize Meynaerts, Klaartje Oerlemans, Jennifer Piasecki, Sylvie Svanberg, Ruud Van Moorleghem, Nele Verreyken) Coproduction La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – Maison de la Danse de Lyon, pôle européen de production – deSingel international arts center, Anvers – Théâtre de Liège – Julidans Amsterdam – Le Manège, scène nationale de Reims – Romaeuropa festival – DDD, Festival Dias da Dança – Teatro Rivoli, Porto – Scène nationale de Forbach – Charleroi danse-centre chorégraphique de Wallonie, Bruxelles – Festspielhaus St-Pölten – Tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf – Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Festival d’Automne à Paris – Équinoxe, scène nationale de Châteauroux – Theater Rotterdam – Perpodium. Residencies La Comédie de Clermont-Ferrand – DE SINGEL, Anvers – Charleroi danse-centre chorégraphique de Wallonie, Bruxelles. With financial support from gouvernement flamand, Tax Shelter du gouvernement fédérale belge par BNPPFFF. Co-direction Théâtre de la Ville-Paris – Festival d’Automne à Paris.