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Ultima Vez — Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour
Direction and choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
 
dance theatre  

We are in the distant future. A turning point in the history of mankind has been reached. A devastating force is engaged in utterly destroying all life on earth. With the aid of a child, a few people have nonetheless succeeded in reaching a place of safety. But life in this safe room is far from easy. The survivors, being human, are constantly at odds with one another. On top of all this is the fact that the chosen ones cannot escape life. Immortality prevails, and suicide doesn’t offer any way out.

Saturday 27 May 2017 at 17:30 — lecture by Wim Vandekeybus on principles of his works. Fee CZK 200 / free with a ticket to "Mockumentary of a Contemporary Savior" peformance. Please reserve your spot at ticket@archatheatre.cz.

Uvedení  
27/5/2017
28/5/2017
29/5/2017
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More performances within Ultima Vez:

Wim Vandekeybus — The Rage of Staging

The ambiguous relationship with the child in the outside world, internal conflicts, cultural differences and the urges and instincts characteristic of humanity make it a time of uninterrupted commotion. The desire to surrender to the all-destroying forces of the outside world is always lurking. Is mankind actually worth saving?

In the theatre and dance performance Mockumentary of a Contemporary Saviour, Wim Vandekeybus, through the medium of seven characters, presents an incisive portrait of a messiah as an imaginary figure. Utopia and dystopia at a single glance. Nothing is what it seems in this futuristic reality.

"I consider the piece to be science fiction, but of a very retro kind. The period is left completely vague, so it is only indirectly about today. I started reading sci-fi books for the very first time for this piece. Ursula K. Le Guin and people like that: really fantastic. The genre is very theatrical because it can simply omit things that are part of our everyday reality in order to focus on something very specific. Theatre and dance share that quality. You make your own codes. But this is not sci-fi with impressive visual effects. I am particularly interested in the atmosphere of seventies sci-fi films, like George Lucas's THX 1138 by or Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris." — Wim Vandekeybus.

Credits

DIRECTION AND CHOREOGRAPHY Wim Vandekeybus
CREATED WITH AND PERFORMED BY Anabel Lopez, Maria Kolegova, Yun Liu, Daniel Copeland, Saïd Gharbi, Jason Quarles, Flavio D’ Andrea
TEXT Bart Meuleman & Ultima Vez
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT Jerry Killick, Aïda Gabriëls
DRAMATURGY Aïda Gabriëls, Jerry Killick
SCENOGRAPHY Wim Vandekeybus, Meryem Bayram
MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN Charo Calvo
COCREATION SOUND DESIGN AND REALIZATION OF IRCAM COMPUTER MUSIC Manuel Poletti
VOICE SAVIOUR Maxim Daish Belay
MOVEMENT ASSISTANT German Jauregui
LIGHTING DESIGN Davy Deschepper, Wim Vandekeybus
COSTUME DESIGN Isabelle Lhoas ASSISTED BY Isabelle De Cannière
TECHNICAL COORDINATION Davy Deschepper
SOUND ENGINEER Bram Moriau ASSISTED BY Martin Antiphon (Ircam)
STAGE MANAGER Tom de With
SFX Zephyr Wildlife, Saskia Verreycken
PRODUCER Ultima Vez
CO-PRODUCERS KVS (Brussels), deSingel (Antwerp), Ircam-Centre Pompidou (Paris)

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