An Angry Boy

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

An angry boy/act two is a contemporary swan song based on Beethoven's Sonata Op. 106, 'Hammerklavier.' It forms the second part of ONR-I, Allegory of Night, a contemporary triptych that develops as an altarpiece for the theater stage.

The work unfolds from the conversation between a choreographer, a young fashion designer, and a classical musician during a first residency at Troubleyn/Laboratorium in Antwerpen. Driven by the theme of 'obscurity,' the three artists work towards a confrontation with their own uniqueness, 'the fact that we will eventually have to part with our individuality.'

Together with the dark and haunting post-punk young fashiondesigner Andrea Cammarosano, they create ‘AN ANGRY BOY/act two'. Raw The performance is a contemporary portrait inspired by Beethovens' Hammerklavier Sonate Opus 106, the score of which was created by the composer at the end of his life. This sonate was born at the turning point of Classicism and Romantic.

So it is with 'AN ANGRY BOY/act two' as it unfolds into two conflictual registers.
And so does the choreographer: finding herself as a creator anno 2008 into a new vacuum: on the threshold of what is established and what has to become.

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