any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - CANCELED!

This performance on location is canceled, ticket holders will be contacted personally.

“What a stunning dance performance!" - De Standaard (****)

Seventeen dancers – aged 15 to 68 – share the stage. They form a block, an unmovable body, a squadron. They stand together in an ode to civil disobedience, revolt and rule-breaking. But just as quickly the squad transforms into a corroding swarm of detached individuals.
Jan Martens questions different forms of progress and the rapid pace at which this progress proceeds. What if you decided to no longer follow the crowd? A simple but profound formal play stretches the tension between the group and its members.

FRI DEC 10th at 20:00 on location in Opera Gent (90')
Info & tickets via vooruit.be

Presentation: Voo?uit together with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen en CAMPO

credits

choreography Jan Martens with Ty Boomershine, Truus Bronkhorst, Jim Buskens, Baptiste Cazaux, Zoë Chungong, Piet Defrancq, Naomi Gibson, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Cherish Menzo, Steven Michel, Gesine Moog, Dan Mussett, Wolf Overmeire, Tim Persent, Courtney May Robertson, Laura Vanborm & Loeka Willems understudies Pierre Bastin, Georgia Boddez, Zora Westbroek & Lia Witjes Poole artistic assistance Anne-Lise Brevers lighting design Jan Fedinger assistance lighting design Vito Walter costume design Cédric Charlier assistance costume design Alexandra Sebba & Thibault Kuhn outside eyes Marc Vanrunxt, Renée Copraij, Rudi Meulemans & Siska Baeck text fragment from SPRING by Ali Smith. Copyright © 2019, Ali Smith, used with the permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited music Henryk Górecki, Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln, Kae Tempest technical direction Michel Spang technician Valentijn Weyn/Bennert Vancottem communication Sam Loncke teasers & trailers Stanislav Dobak & Jan Fedinger production GRIP in collaboration with Dance On Ensemble international distribution A Propic / Line Rousseau & Marion Gauvent coproduction deSingel (Antwerpen, BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Julidans (Amsterdam, NL), Festival d’Avignon (FR), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France (FR), Norrlandsoperan (Umeå, SE), La Bâtie - Festival de Genève & l’ADC - Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Genève (CH), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf, DE), Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes-Pyrénéés (Tarbes, FR), La Danse & grande forme - Projet de l’A-CDCN et de l’ACCN: CNDC - Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture - CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux - La Rochelle, CCN de Caen & Normandie, L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Collectif Fair-e / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, Le Gymnase | CDCN Roubaix | Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg et La Place de La Danse - CDCN Toulouse Occitanie & Perpodium with the support of De Grote Post (Oostende, BE), Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE), CCNO - Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orléans i.c.w. Théâtre d’Orléans (FR) & December Dance with the financial support of the Flemish Government, the City of Antwerp, the tax shelter of the Belgian Federal Government & Cronos Invest thanks to Mr. Jean Chabert (STANLEY/STELLA)