jerôme bel/ collaboration

In The show must go on, Jérôme Bel dissects the mechanisms of the “spectacle” by putting on stage 20 interpreters, between professionals and ordinary people, to the sound of international hits from the last 30 years. He plays with the expectations of the performance and the mirror effect between dancers and spectators. While most dramaturgies demand fragmented attention from the viewer, the magic of The show must go on, as in many plays by Jérôme Bel, arises from what the artist offers: the time and space to see, to be captured, to find the focus of interest. The uniformity of the line, the plasticity worked by the interpreters, the transformations in the painting, the ease of movement.

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Jérôme Bel lives in Paris and works worldwide. nom donné par l'auteur (1994) is a choreography of objects. Jérôme Bel (1995) is based on the total nudity of the performers. Shirtology (1997) features an actor who wears many T-shirts. The last performance (1998) mentions a solo by choreographer Susanne Linke, as well as Hamlet and André Agassi. Xavier Le Roy (2000) was appropriated by Jérôme Bel as his own, but was actually choreographed by Xavier Le Roy. The show must go on (2001) brings together twenty performers, nineteen pop songs and a DJ. Véronique Doisneau (2004) is a solo about the work of Véronique Doisneau, from the Paris Opera. Isabel Torres (2005), for the ballet of the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro, is her Brazilian version. Pichet Klunchun and myself (2005) was created in Bangkok with the traditional Thai dancer Pichet Klunchun. Follows Cédric Andrieux (2009), dancer from Merce Cunningham. 3Abschied (2010) is a collaboration between Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jérôme Bel based on the song The Song of the Earth, by Gustav Mahler. Disabled Theater (2012) is a play with the Theater Hora company, from Zurich, composed of professional actors with learning difficulties. Cour d'honneur (2013) stages fourteen spectators at the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des Papes in Avignon. In Gala (2015), the choreographer brings together dance professionals and amateurs from different backgrounds. In Tombe (2016), a performance created at the invitation of the National Opera of Paris, Jérôme Bel proposes that some ballet dancers invite to a duet the person with whom they would never share the stage.

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The presentations of the show The Show Must Go On in Rio de Janeiro are part of the FranceDanse project, with support from the Institut Français, the Consulate General of France in Rio and Funarte.