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read on…Cherish Menzo in The Dog Days are over
The Dog Days are over is a jumped, minimal and political work for eight performers
The Dog Days are over will be Jan Martens’ first work for a group of dancers since his debut
I can ride a Horse whilst juggling so marry me from 2010.
In season 2011 – 2012 he created the work Pretty Perfect for the dancers of Conny Janssen Danst,
which was a command from Dansateliers.
It was a short work for six dancers that was completely constructed around one physical action: the jump.
This pre-research will be developed through in season 2013 – 2014 to an evening full program with eight new dancers.
Starting point for the work is a quote by American photographer Philippe Halsman who said back in 1958:
“When you ask a person to jump,
his attention is mostly directed toward the act of jumping
and the mask falls so that the real person appears.”
The Dog Days are over will be a work that tries to reveal the person behind the dancer.
To reach this, a very complex, mathematical, dynamic and tiring choreography is constructed, which is performed almost completely in unison.
The difficulty degree of the choreography is so high, that the dancers eventually will go wrong. It is there where the mask falls.
The dancer is defined as an idle and purely executing species, striving for perfection.
But The Dog Days are over has also a more reflective aim.
It wants to provoke thoughts about the role of dance and art,
it wants to question the audience’s perception about dancers, choreographers, audience and culture policy:
Where lies the thin line between art and entertainment?
Who are we as an audience, coming to see dancers suffer as if we are watching bullfights in an arena?
Is contemporary dance striptease for the upper class?
The Dog Days are over wants to make the watcher shift between being in the experience and reflection on that same experience.
The performance will be a work that brings the spectator in a trance,
but will also create a distance and time for that same spectator to question his or her reasons to be where they are right now:
in the theatre.
Credits
By: Jan Martens
With: Cherish Menzo, Piet Defrancq, Julien Josse, Laura Vanborm, Anastassya Savitsky, Nelle Hens, Steven Michel and Kimmy Ligtvoet and or Jamie De Groot and Naomi Gibson
Light design: Jan Fedinger
Dramaturgy: Renée Copraij
Technics: Michel Spang
Production: JAN&ICKamsterdam
Coproduction: Frascati Producties, Spring performing arts festival, DansBrabant, La Briqueterie CDC du Val-de-Marne, tanzhaus nrw and Takt Dommelhof
With support of: Workspace Brussels and wp zimmer
Touring period: starting from April 2014.
International Sales: Line Rousseau, apropic.com
Financial Support by: Flemish Authorities and Performing Arts Fund NL
Thank you dansateliers and conny janssen danst
Dates
12 of march 2014 theater de new vorst TILBURG try-out NL
19 of march 2014 theater frascati AMSTERDAM try-out NL
20 of march 2014 theater frascati AMSTERDAM première NL
21 of march 2014 theater frascati AMSTERDAM NL
22 of march 2014 theater frascati AMSTERDAM NL
3 of april 2014 campo GENT BE première BE
4 of april 2014 campo GENT BE
9 of april 2014 theater De Veste DELFT NL
12 of april 2014 korzo DEN HAAG NL
22 of april 2014 CCHA HASSELT BE
24 of april 2014 CC BERCHEM BE
25 of april 2014 de Warande TURNHOUT BE
27 of april 2014 spring forward festival UMEA SE
7 of may 2014 Schouwburg ROTTERDAM NL
8 of may 2014 chassé theater BREDA NL
13 of may 2014 30CC Schouwburg LEUVEN BE
20 of may 2014 SPRINGfestival Schouwburg UTRECHT NL
21 of may 2014 SPRINGfestival Schouwburg UTRECHT NL
august 2014 International festival Les Brigittines BRUSSELS BE tbc
23 of august 2014 tanzhaus nrw DUSSELDORF DE
20 of september 2014 TAKT Dommelhof NEERPELT BE
02 of october 2014 CC ter vesten BEVEREN BE
03 of october 2014 verkadefabriek DEN BOSCH NL
23 of september 2014 toneelschuur HAARLEM NL
20 of november 2014 CC de werft GEEL BE
30 of january 2015 Antwerpse Kleppers Toneelhuis ANTWERPEN BE
25 of march 2015 Biennale du Val-de-Marne CRETEIL FR tbc
26 of march 2015 Biennale du Val-de-Marne CRETEIL FR tbc
27 of march 2015 Biennale du Val-de-Marne CRETEIL FR tbc
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