Gala - T0983809351Jerome Bel's Gala is a captivating showcase of dance - amateur, professional and everything in between. It is a liberating show that encourages us, the audience, to re-consider the judgements we make watching performers on stage. Twenty dancers fill the space. They are Londoners, who come from all walks of life, some young and fit, some older and less so, but together they shatter the sanctity of the stage with a mixture of joy, passion and often failure. | |
| 18 Oct 16 to 19 Oct 16 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L01764239275 |
| 15 Oct 16 | Tate Modern, Inner London :: V0639819942 listing details L842509199 |
| 11 Oct 16 | Bernie Grant Arts Centre, Outer London :: V01396607277 listing details L01774651240 |
Cedric Andrieux - T1334089477UK Premiere. Since 2004 Jerome Bel has initiated a series of biographical solos, each created collaboratively with the dancer whose name the work bears. The most recent of these, Cedric Andrieux, is a self-contemplation of Andrieux’s rich career starting with his training as a contemporary dancer at the Paris Conservatoire, his rigorous eight years with Merce Cunningham Dance Company and more recently his time with the Lyon Opera Ballet. The work includes delightful extracts from pieces Andrieux performed with these companies, including Merce Cunningham’s Biped and Suite for 5 and Trisha Brown’s Newark. Andrieux’s candid account gives the audience a rare and humorous insider’s view into the experience of working with these renowned companies as well as an intimate glimpse into the life of this compelling dancer. | |
| 3 Oct 11 to 4 Oct 11 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L1357756820 |
T1186678793Jérôme Bel first appeared at Sadler’s Wells in February 2008 with a retrospective of some of his most famous works spanning nine years. This provocative, free-spirited choreographer has delighted and shocked audiences across the world with his performances which test the boundaries of dance and theatre with humour, intelligence and unwavering confidence. Now Bel turns his attention to the audience, delivering an intimate hour-long talk in which he looks back at performances he has seen, recounting memories which throw a fascinating light on his own influences, as well as the very concept of live performance. In his own words "I have no doubt that the best position in a theatre is not the one of the performer, nor the one of the choreographer or the director, but the one of the spectator". This world premiere offers an opportunity to gain a fascinating insight into the mind of one of the dance world's true mavericks. | |
| 12 Feb 09 to 14 Feb 09 | The Lilian Baylis Theatre, Inner London :: V236 listing details L1857041704 |
Nom donne par l'auteur (Name Give by the Author) - T1960560178nottdance audiences are again drawn into the cunning schemes and incomparable humour of Jerome Bel. In this first piece, created in 1994, a 'theatre of things' is presented for our scrutiny. Multicoloured objects are scattered on a rug and two performers sit either side Bel on a vacuum cleaner, Seguette on a stool immobile and withdrawn. Unwittingly, the viewer is enticed into the play between objects and bodies on stage, extracting meaning from relationships between them. | |
| 30 Apr 05 | General, Nottingham :: V0758542743 listing details L1588315797 |
The Show Must Go On - T01799613403Having deconstructed performance with The last performance (seen at the ICA as part of The Place’s 'Out of Place' season last year), Jérôme Bel rebuilds it from scratch in The show must go on. A subversive and funny epic framed around popular songs - from Leonard Bernstein to Queen - involves 21 performers responding straightforwardly to the soundtrack, yet revealing themselves, the music and the spectacle in totally new ways. | |
| 10 May 02 to 11 May 02 | The Place Theatre, Inner London :: V240 listing details L0302940364 |
Presents Jerome Bel - T736009159The work of the Paris-based choreographer Jerome Bel is unique. It confirms, antagonises and rigorously metamorphosis's dance structures in a way that is both provocative and exhilarating. Drawing its inspiration from semiotics (the language of symbols and codes), and the minimalist definition of dance as movement in time and space, the result is not dance, but a kind of anti-dance, infused with language, images and ideas. In Bel's theatre of physical presence, he abruptly offers his actors to the audiences and lets their bodies or the objects linked to them tell their own story. These stories often refer to ideas of Identity and its place in the culture - how it is given and how it is taken away. | |
| 5 Jun 01 | Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff :: V827 listing details L1068344881 |
