Josse De Pauw & Kris Defoort Trio / LOD muziektheater
About the body and the mind and how impossible it is for them to be in tune with one another. Except perhaps during a little dance. — Josse de Pauw
A joint venture by Kris Defoort and Josse De Pauw was an old idea. Their work schedules had never previously allowed it, but then we had it: An Old Monk. Josse De Pauw performs a piece he wrote himself, with music by Kris Defoort inspired by Thelonious Monk. About wanting to live at all costs.
Reviews
“A wonderfully successful and jazzy ode to life.”- Els Van Steenberghe, KNACK, 11.11.2012
“An Old Monk is undoubtedly one of the ten best performances of the season. (…) Josse De Pauw tells the story and celebrates. Inventive, funny, true to life. The music likewise. (…) All power and freedom, Thelonious Monk would have been mad about it.”- LE TEMPS, 18.06.2013
“The music by the Kris Defoort Trio has three pillars: the compositions by Defoort, themes from Monk, and improvisation, which interlock to form a free-thinking whole and largely create the atmosphere. (…) De Pauw is a masterly storyteller and actor, who fills the whole stage with his voice, language and body.”- **** HET PAROOL, 28.10.2013
Credits
Text – Josse De Pauw
Composer – Kris Defoort
Inspired by Thelonious Monk
With – Josse De Pauw & Kris Defoort Trio:
Kris Defoort piano,
Nicolas Thys electric bass,
Lander Gyselinck drums
Images – Bache Jespers & Benoît van Innis
Production – LOD muziektheater & Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne
Josse De Pauw
The actor, author and director JOSSE DE PAUW’s career started in 1976 with Radeis International, a highly successful theatre group that performed throughout Europe and overseas, from Vancouver to Los Angeles, from Caracas to Hong Kong, until 1984. As from 1985 he operated as an independent theatre-maker and collaborated with actors, directors, musicians, composers, writers and artists including Tom Jansen, Dirk Roofthooft, Luk Perceval, Guy Cassiers, Jan Decorte, Jürgen Gosh, Jan Ritsema, Jan Lauwers, Manu Riche, Peter Vermeersch and FES, Claire Chevallier, George van Dam, Jan Kuijken, Eric Thielemans, Rudy Trouvé, Roland Van Campenhout, Collegium Vocale, I Solisti del Vento, Corrie van Binsbergen, David Van Reybrouck, Mark Schaevers, Jeroen Brouwers, Koenraad Tinel, Gorik Lindemans, Benoît van Innis, David Claerbout, Michaël Borremans and Herman Sorgeloos. He performed his first major film part in 1989, and since then has performed in more than fifty Belgian and foreign films. He has himself directed two: Vinaya and Übung. He has worked with directors including Dominique Deruddere, Marc Didden, Guido Hendrickx, Eric Pauwels, Jos Stelling, Franz Weisz, Orlow Seunke and Marc-Henri Wajnberg. In addition to plays, he also writes stories, observations, notes and travel stories. His writings have been collected in two books: Werk and Nog (published by Hautekiet). He has adapted Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and Malcolm Lowry’s Under the Volcano for the stage for the director Guy Cassiers, and J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace for Luk Perceval. But he is known above all as the author, actor and maker of such successful plays as Weg, Larf, Übung, die Siel van die Mier, Ruhe, Strange News, Liefde/zijn handen, Een Nieuw Requiem, De Versie Claus, Over de bergen, De Gehangenen, Boot & Berg and An Old Monk and HOUSE. The Festival d’Avignon invited him in 2014 to play these last two productions. 2016 will see the premiere of his new production The Key, after the book by Japanese author Jun’ichiro Tanizaki.
