An Angry Boy

An Angry Boy by Chantal Yzermans premiered in Amperdans Antwerpen 2007 in Monty Theater with Nono Pessoa photo by Ronald Stoops

The performance is a contemporary portrait inspired by Beethoven’s Hammerklavier Sonata, Opus 106, the score of which was created by the composer at the end of his life. This sonata was born at the turning point between Classicism and Romanticism.

So it is with AN ANGRY BOY / Act Two, unfolding into two conflictual registers. And so do the choreographer and the young fashion designer find themselves as creators in 2008, navigating a new vacuum: on the threshold of what is established and what has yet to become. This threshold extends into the performance itself, where form and perception are deliberately destabilised.

After several years in New York, returning to Europe marked a decisive shift in Yzermans’ practice. An Angry Boy became the first step in a process of physical and artistic reorganisation—a turning point that opened rather than resolved change. On stage, the work also explores a deliberate instability of representation, where the body resists fixed readings and unsettles conventional markers of gender.

concept & dance Chantal Yzermans

costume design Andrea Cammarosano

music Beethoven's Sonata Op. 106, 'Hammerklavier.'

live piano Adriaan Jacobs

Première

Amperdans Antwerpen September 2007

Performance History

Monty Kunstencentrum Antwerpen , Belgium September 2008

Chez Bushwick, Brooklyn (USA), October 2009
Instituto Cervantes, Dancing Roads 2013, Bremen (D)

with the support of the City of Antwerpen & Troubleyn Laboratorium Antwerpen