WHO WANTS TO DANCE WITH ME 16.04.'21
An exhibition that is halfway between peeping in and reaching out. Visual work and objects, testimonies and imagination, fragments from our own past with a view on tomorrow. Welcome at les ballets C de la B.MORE INFO or MAKE YOUR RESERVATION
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les ballets C de la B – the playlist 16.04.'21
The history of les ballets C de la B in music? That’s 19 hours of enjoyment. You can find it on Spotify: click this link to listen.WHO WANTS TO DANCE WITH ME here .your tickets in advance.
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Dance Day 2021 with “Soirée d’études” 23.04.'21
We could not invite you for an open rehearsal of our Co-laBo residency Soirée d’études in our studio, but happy anyway to share it in another way: Soirée d’études by Cassiel Gaube will be streamed at Podium19VRT.nu Soirée d’études in Co-laBo#17 – residency at les ballets C de la B.
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Action Zoo Humain: new Co-laBo 16.04.'21
Action Zoo Humain: new Co-laBo We have always had to look after ourselves. We are always at our best in times of misery. From the Battle of the Golden Spurs to the Battle of the Yser. Slogging through the mud has made us great. Strong. Disciplined. Humble and modest too. Flemish Masters . They investigate the tension between cultural identity and the malleability of success. The Flemish Mastery form the present and the past is the guideline all along the work process.click here .
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15.02.'21
Ten years after the world tour, the stars of Gardenia reunite. Or not quite. Andrea has left us forever. And as she went, so did Tina Turner. Eight of them now, they continue. Eight individuals so special you will want to get to know them. Want to embrace them.Gardenia – 10 years later
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New distribution/sales assistant 09.04.'21
New distribution/sales assistant Selma and Sofiane Ouissi and so her path crossed ours. Welcome Helena!
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La Tristeza Complice on Podium19 05.03.'21
La Tristeza Complice: Purcell on accordion Musical revival at Podium 19 More than 25 years ago, director Alain Platel and composer Dick van der Harst created the legendary "La Tristeza Complice". One was co-founder of les ballets C de la B, the other of LOD music theater. Together they browsed through the work of Henry Purcell (1659-1695) and brutally selected only what immediately pleased, stood out and appealed to them as pop music for a musical theater performance. Both liked contradictions and sudden mood changes. Platel let that speak in dance, while van der Harst expressed it with Purcell's baroque music.Take a seat at home and watch Thursday 25/03 – deSingel OnLive Friday 02/04 – Podium19.be LOD muziektheater & les ballets C de la B : La Tristeza Complice composition Dick van der Harst (naar Henry Purcell) | direction and concept Alain Platel | accordion orchestra conducted by Gwen Cresens | with Barbara Ardenois, Gwen Cresens, Louis De Backere, Elke De Meester, Ward Ginneberge, Issa Hellebaut, Luca Pignata, Sara Salverius, Ivan Smeulders, Lowie Vercammen |soprano Lieselot De Wildeproduction LOD muziektheater & les ballets C de la B
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Mein Gent: postponed to 2022 31.03.'21
By making Mein Gent , directors Frank Van Laecke and Alain Platel realize a long-cherished dream they share with each other: to pay tribute to Ghent, the city with which they are thoroughly intertwined. Both Ghent townsmen found each other ten years ago in making music theatre performances. Supported by soundscapes composed by Steven Prengels, they dive with each performance into a most extraordinary universe to tell about the little and the great tragedies in life. Remind Gardenia in 2010 or also En avant, marche! in 2015.Mein Gent , in which a large group of Ghentians will play alongside the regular cast.Mein Gent
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30.03.'21
Read more about the ins and outs of our company - you'll find it in this blog .
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Out of Context – for Pina 30.03.'21
Two years after its première in 2010, the worldwide tour of Out of Context-for Pina ended in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Unlike any other production of les ballets C de la B, Out of Context-for Pina is reprised once a year. At one location a year, the same dancers perform the same material, yet a year older…
Out of Context – for Pina
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10.02.'21
“How can the history that is written in bodies, speak to us? Not just history in collective bodies, but also in the bodies of individual people?” Badke – change the places of the consonants and you arrive at dabke, the Palestinian folk dance. 10 young Palestinian dancers from various disciplines (contemporary dance, hiphop, circus) took the dabke as starting point and confronted this locally rooted dance with elements from worldwide pop dance culture. So Badke became a double quest: one that conveys the unique Palestinian desire to ‘belong somewhere’, and at the same time the wish to be part of a world beyond that.Badke watch the performance here (again) .
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Necropolis online at Vagamondes festival 18.01.'21
Organized by La Filature in Mulhouse (FR), Les Vagamondes festival offers an international and multidisciplinary outlook and strives to overcome borders through various artistic works. This year’s online edition will be devoted to the Mediterranean space. It presents a focus on Arkadi Zaides’ most recent works Talos and Necropolis , that both question the migratory movements happening in Europe and at its borders.Talos by Arkadi Zaides : VIDEO N° 387 disparu en Méditerranée , by Madeleine Leroyer, of which the research has inspired Arkadi Zaides for Necropolis : FILM Necropolis by Arkadi Zaides : VIDEO Necropolis , Arkadi Zaides had a residency at ballets C de la B (Co-laBo #18 here .
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Want to be invited to our studio? 30.03.'21
We will gladly keep you in the loop about open rehearsals or presentations. Fill in your e-mail address here and you'll be added to the mailinglist which we only use to announce these open studio moments.Note: Under the current corona-measures, it's impossible to invite an audience in our studio. But as soon as it is possible, you'll hear from us.
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10.05.'19
Since 2004 les ballets C de la B lends its active support to a cultural boycott of Israel. Because of the increasing tension, les ballets C de la B relaunches the call to support the cultural boycott of Israel. Alain Platel emphasizes the relaunch with an open letter:Open letter by Alain Platel (les ballets C de la B). really am not much of a hero and it is always with a heavy heart that I swing into action, when I feel that it is necessary. It is even harder when I am forced to disagree with fellow artists – whose work I admire immensely – in this respect when they claim that these kinds of actions or statements either are not ours to take or make, or don’t help matters whatsoever.and Palestinian artists, both in the Occupied Territories and here in Belgium, however, leaves me no choice. Since my first visit to the Occupied Territories – in 2001, and this during the intifada – I became convinced that the resolution of the conflict in this part of the world could be crucial and could give a huge boost to a positive development in the whole region, and by extension, East-West relationships as a whole. Of course, this is very naïve and utopian, but I believe that harbouring such utopian hopes is a good thing. After all, I see very little or no evidence of how the existing political and military structures do/did get things moving.why , more than ever, I want to make a plea for a delicate, yet special citizens’ initiative: the support for the (cultural) boycott of Israel.everywhere in the Occupied Territories.every day in Palestinian territories. Every day, Palestinians are still being harassed, discriminated against, picked up, locked up or – where ‘necessary’ – simply shot. The OCHA (Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs), a United Nations humanitarian organisation, for instance, regularly publishes the shocking figures of the ‘invisible victims’ who are killed there every year. (see: http://www.ochaopt.org/documents/ocha_opt_the_humanitarian_monitor_2014_10_02_english.pdf ).real , constructive and permanent solutions. A (cultural) boycott is nonviolent but is incredibly irritating and with ardent advocates such as archbishop Desmond Tutu is in very good company.www.bacbi.be www.vrede.be this link .
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18.10.'17
Les ballets C de la B wants to invest in the next generation by taking in residents who will get the opportunity to be coached in their work by director Alain Platel and Hildegard Devuyst, Platel’s dramaturg for more than 20 years. The basic idea are one-month-residencies in one of the studios at les ballets. There are no prefixed artistic conditions, no exclusives when it comes to form or movement language. Young artists who think their work would benefit from a residency, can apply by mailing to Hildegard De Vuyst. hildegard@lesballetscdela.be
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22.11.'19
les ballets C de la B supports HART BOVEN HARD www.hartbovenhard.be
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