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any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones

Jan Martens / GRIP & Dance On Ensemble

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DECEMBER DANCE 2022

dance
monumental
Sat 10 Dec 2022 -20.00
Last tickets
Concertzaal
introduction by De Zendelingen 19.15
start 20.00
expected end time 21.45

Standard €25.00 - €44.00

Reduction -26 €13.00 - €22.50

All prices include booking fees.

Seventeen dancers set society in motion

This first production for the full concert hall stage gave Flemish choreographer Jan Martens his ultimate international breakthrough. Martens gathers together a mixed bag of 17 dancers, aged from 17 to 70. Together, this atypical company represent the power that lies in 'being out of step'. It is a horizontal exercise in giving each other the necessary space to be, of embracing distinct identities and of not all marching to the same drum – in short, it is a compelling choreographic ode to civil disobedience.

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With the music of Henryk Górecki (1933-2010), Kae Tempest (1985), Max Roach (1924-2007) & Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010)

Jan Martens: choreography
Ty Boomershine, Truus Bronkhorst, Jim Buskens, Zoë Chungong, Piet Defrancq, Naomi Gibson, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Cherish Menzo, Steven Michel, Gesine Moog, Dan Mussett, Wolf Overmeire, Tim Persent, Courtney May Robertson, Laura Vanborm, Loeka Willems and – alternatingly – Pierre Bastin, Georgia Boddez, Zora Westbroek, Lia Witjes-Poole, Camilla Bundel, Paolo Yao [on tour], Abigail Aleksander, Maisie Woodford, Simon Lelievre, Solal Mariotte [understudies] en Baptiste Cazaux [original cast]: dance
Anne-Lise Brevers: artistic assistance
Jan Fedinger: lighting design
Cédric Charlier: costume design

With the music of Henryk Górecki (1933-2010), Kae Tempest (1985), Max Roach (1924-2007) & Abbey Lincoln (1930-

executives

production: GRIP
in collaboration with Dance On Ensemble Internationale
distribution: A Propic / Line Rousseau and Marion Gauvent
coproduction: DE SINGEL (Antwerp), Theater Freiburg (Baden-Wurttemberg), Sadler’s Wells (London), Julidans
(Amsterdam), Festival d’Avignon (Avignon), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France, Norrlandsoperan (Umea), La Batie - Festival de Geneve & l’ADC - Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Geneve, tanzhaus nrw (Dusseldorf), Le Parvis Scene Nationale Tarbes-Pyrenees, La Danse en grande forme (CNDC – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture - CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux – La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’echangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orleans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Collectif Fair-e / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, Le Gymnase | CDCN Roubaix | Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg en La Place de La Danse - CDCN Toulouse Occitanie) & Perpodium (Antwerp)
with the support of the Grote Post (Oostende), Charleroi Danse, CCNO - Centre Choregraphique National d’Orleans i.s.m.Theatre d’Orleans & December Dance (Concertgebouw Brugge & Cultuurcentrum Brugge) with the support of the Flemish Government, the City of Antwerp, the Tax Shelter scheme of the Belgian Federal Government & Cronos Invest
with thanks to Stanley/Stella

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production: GRIP
in collaboration with Dance On Ensemble Internationale
distribution: A Propic / Line Rousseau

Sat 10 Dec 2022 -20.00
Last tickets
Concertzaal
introduction by De Zendelingen 19.15
start 20.00
expected end time 21.45

Standard €25.00 - €44.00

Reduction -26 €13.00 - €22.50

All prices include booking fees.