JAN MARTENS / GRIP & Dance On Any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones

Featuring 17 performers with very different personalities, aged between 17 and 70. This show, which has just been premiered at the Avignon Festival, takes a look at the protest songs of different generations.

Choreography Jan Martens / Dance Ty Boomershine, Truus Bronkhorst, Georgia Boddez, Jim Buskens, Zoë Chungong, Piet Defrancq, Naomi Gibson, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Cherish Menzo, Gesine Moog, Dan Mussett, Wolf Overmeire, Tim Persent, Courtney May Robertson, Laura Vanborm, Loeka Willems, Lia Witjes-Poole / Substitutes Pierre Bastin, Georgia Boddez, Zora Westbroek, Lia Witjes Poole / Artistic assistance Anne-Lise Brevers / Lighting design Jan Fedinger / Lighting design assistant Vito Walter / Costume design Cédric Charlier / Costume design assistant Alexandra Sebbag and Thibault Kuhn / External look Marc Vanrunxt, Renée Copraij, Rudi Meulemans, Siska Baeck / Text excerpted from SPRING by Ali Smith. Copyright © 2019, Ali Smith, with permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited / Music Concerto pour Clavecin et Cordes Op 40 Réf Im: 108884 Musique de Henryk Mikolaj Górecki © PWM Editions représenté par Alphonse Leduc Editions Musicales ; “People’s Faces” written by Kae Tempest and Dan Carey © Published and Administered by Domino Publishing Company Limited (50%) i MANATA LTD Administrated by Warner/Chappell Music Belgium N.V. (50%) ; “Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace” written by Maxwell Roach © Published by Milma Publishing Company Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing Limited. Music Publishing Limited / Technical director Michel Spang / Technicians Valentijn Weyn – Bennert Vancottem / Production manager Sylvie Svanberg /
Production assistant Marie Luyten (internship) and Saskia Vervoort / Head of Business Distribution Klaartje Oerlemans / Distribution support Ruud Van Moorleghem and Lotte De Mont / Communication Sam Loncke / Photography Phile Deprez / Graphic design Luis Xertu / Teasers and trailers Stanislav Dobak and Jan Fedinger
Production GRIP / With the collaboration Dance On Ensemble / International distribution A Propic – Line Rousseau and Marion Gauvent / Coproducción DE SINGEL (Antwerp, BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Julidans (Amsterdam, NL), Festival d’Avignon (FR), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France (FR), Norrlandsoperan (Umeå, SE), La Bâtie – Festival de Genève & l’ADC – Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Genève (CH), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf, DE), Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes-Pyrénéés (Tarbes, FR), La Danse en grande forme – Projet de l’A-CDCN et de l’ACCN: CNDC – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux – La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Collectif Fair-e / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, Le Gymnase | CDCN Roubaix | Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg and La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie) i Perpodium / Con el apoyo De Grote Post (Ostend, BE), Charleroi danse – Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE), CCNO – Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans icw Théâtre d’Orléans (FR) and December Dance (Concertgebouw and CC Brugge) / With financial supportGovern Flamenc, the city of Antwerp, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Cronos Invest / Acknowledgments Mr. Jean Chabert (STANLEY/STELLA), de! Kunsthumaniora, Wannes Labath, Anne-Lise Brevers, Zora, Westbroek, Michel Spang, Valentijn Weyn

Show included in the Dansa Metropolitana program

Introductory session to the show ‘ONE HOUR BEFORE’: March 19 by Jordi Ribot (dance theorist) and Clàudia Brufau (cultural journalist). Registrations here.

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