NOBOLERO

2016

concept /performance Chantal Yzermans

music Bolero by Maurice Ravel

original music /performance by Madmoizel

original text/ performance by Joelle Adrien

costume Jean Paul Lespagnard

lightdesign Elke Verachtert

commissioned by Centre Pompidou Metz 2016, FR

Concept

As a resident of the Cité des Arts 2014 in Paris, Chantal Yzermans initiated the research for this new project in collaboration with Dr. Joelle Adrien, a sleep neuroscientist, head of the research group INSERM/Faculty of Medicine Pitié-Salpétrière-Paris. Dr. Joelle Adrien has been working at La Salpêtrière for over 30 years on research concerning sleep behavior in newborns. Questioning the interpretation of a work of art and where the originality of a piece lies, the emphasis is on an ongoing dialogue with our artistic research and commitment to appropriation, the idea of originality, the relationship between power and creativity, technology and art, and dreams as intellectual property.

Chantal Yzermans' inquiry involves our own statement regarding an iconic work of art: what we see through it or what we are led to see. In NOBOLERO, Yzermans diverts and even challenges the artistic movement by reducing it to fragments, unloading the choreography of all its references to extract its pure essence. The result of relating dance to scientific research on sleep and the origins of dreams brings a hypnotic performance that leads us to an ancestral ritual. Constantly navigating between reality and imagination, this personal quest takes us to the origins of humanity and our own identity, beyond the intellectual appropriation of a work of art.

Production Radical Low

Coproduction : Jan Fabre / Troubleyn (BE), Kultuurfaktorij Monty (BE), TAKT Dommelhof (BE), Centre Pompidou Metz (FR) Residencies : Kunstencentrum Vooruit (BE), Teatros del Canal Madrid (ES)