Nov 19Nov 23, 2024
JAN MARTENS
VOICE NOISE • Premiere
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
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
Jointly devised and performed by Elisha Mercelina, Steven Michel, Courtney May Robertson, Mamadou Wagué, Loeka Willems, Sue-Yeon Youn et/ou Pierre-Adrien Touret, Zora Westbroek
Production GRIP. Diffusion internationale A Propic – Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent, Lara van Lookeren. 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 – deSingel, 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.
Tue 19 Nov 2024
8:00 PM
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Wed 20 Nov 2024
8:00 PM
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Thu 21 Nov 2024
8:00 PM
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Fri 22 Nov 2024
8:00 PM
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Sat 23 Nov 2024
3:00 PM
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