Cinedans: meeting with Alain Platel / Sophie Fiennes

Made by Josselin Carré
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Cinedans 2008:
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VSPRS Show and Tell
Program:
Amsterdam, Rialto, 4 juli, 22.00 uur
Den Haag, 4 juli, 22.00 uur
Utrecht, 5 juli, 21.45 uur
GB, FR, 2007
Director: Sophie Fiennes
Choreography: Alain Platel
Time: 72 minutes
Acclaimed Belgian choreographer Alain Platel has never shied away from shocking audiences. His work VSPRS is his most outrageous yet -- one critic calling it "the weirdest, most shocking and provocative dance performance you will ever see." The dance, made up of ten dancers and ten musicians, is performed to Claudio Monteverdi's Mariavespers, one of the most important pieces in the history of European religious music. The artists trained by immersing themselves in images of psychiatric distress, and together carve out an extremely physical and graphic performance immersed in religious and sexual imagery. In Sophie Fiennes' mesmerising documentary, the dimensions of ecstasy and trauma that form the core of the performance are masterfully captured, whilst interviews with Platel and the dancers themselves add an extra layer of insight to the performances.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• alain
• platel
• sophie
• fiennes
• les
• ballets
• de
• la
• danse
• dans
• dance
• contemporaine
• vsprs
• avignon
• opera
• wolf

[1978aguirre]

it was the same for me...when i listened for the first time keith jarret

:-)

[MissAstuteness]

I cried when I saw the performance...