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Wim Vandekeybus

26 novembre 1999
01m 54s
Ref. 00274

Information

Summary :

Portrait of the Flemish choreographer, Wim Vandekeybus, who is staging his latest creation, a dreamlike and energetic one, at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.

Media type :
Vidéo
Broadcast date :
26 novembre 1999
Source :
A2 (Collection: JA2 20H )
Personnalité(s) :
Wim Vandekeybus / Béatrice Schönberg
Themes :
Places :

Context

The Flemish-Belgian Wim Vandekeybus, dancer, choreographer and director, was born in 1963. He started as a performer in a contemporary dance choreography show by Jan Fabre, with whom he'd travel the world. In 1986, he founded the Ultima Vez company. His first creation, What the Body Does Not Remember(1987), caused international interest straight away and received a Bessie Award in New York. He won the prize again for his second show, Les Porteuses de Mauvaises Nouvelles. From the start he expressed the violence of the world through his powerful and impulsive corporal movements, with frenetic and intensely physical energy, the fundamental characteristic of his dance.

From 1991, he integrated narrative elements into his shows and inAlle Grossen decken sich zu, in 1995, theatre took over from dance. Wim Vandekeybus made films used on stage, and in this way the film adaptations of his shows. In 2002 he created a solo for the Belgian dancer and choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui.

Ultima Vez were resident at the KVS, the Royal Flemish Theatre, from 1993 to 1999 and other municipal theatre of Ferrara in Italy from 2000 to 2002.

Claire Libbra

Transcription

Béatrice Schönberg
Culture with the talent and the imagination of this Flemish choreograph, the most gifted of his generation, Wim Vandekeybus who is showing at the city Theatre his latest creation where he brings onstage the energy, the dynamic, almost the violence of the skin of his dancers. Michel Strulovici, Didier Dahan.
(Music)
Michel Strulovici
Energy at the command post, energy in the jumping area.
(Music)
Michel Strulovici
It is the furious and hectic life that Wim Vandekeybus's company infuses in us, in this stage transformed into an arena.
(Music)
Michel Strulovici
"Last Time", that is the manifest name of this troupe. Like a call to live each moment intensely, a dance on the edge of the abyss.
(Music)
Michel Strulovici
Let us therefore rediscover our vigor in order to destabilize our own habits and the world.
Wim Vandekeybus
This search towards this energy which is a bit lost, which I want to again bring to life. It is a positive energy, which can, of course, lend itself to a commentary on all the violence that occurs, with an indifference, almost, in the wars and in everything that takes place in the world But I think that this intensifying of energy is very important to me. I do not want to lose it.
(Music)
Michel Strulovici
It is the story of a dream where man struggles in the midst of his distress, his hopes, his shadows.
(Music)
Michel Strulovici
A place conducive to desire.
(Music)