Part of: Fast Forward Festival 1
Dance

FFF1 | Κiss & Cry

Michèle Anne De Mey - Jaco Van Dormael

Dates

Prices

5 — 15 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Friday-Sunday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

15 € | Concs 10 € | Unemployed 5 €

Language

In French with recorded translation in Greek

A tale of love and forgetting is this dance spectacle in miniature, that tests the boundaries of both dance and cinema.

Hands and fingers

A couple off stage and collaborators on it, the important Belgian choreographer and dancer Michèle Anne De Mey and the award-winning film-maker Jaco Van Dormael present their acclaimed work “Kiss & Cry / Νanodanses” (2011), a dance spectacle in miniature, as its alternative title denotes, that tests the boundaries of both dance and cinema.

The dancers’ hands and fingers are all we see as they dance in a set taken straight out of childhood memories—all train sets, craft projects, tiny dolls’ houses and snow-covered landscapes. The dancing hands emerge as the ideal narrators of a tale of love and forgetting: a woman muses on the past, delving into her memories for the people who defined and loved her before disappearing from her life. Microcameras film and project this miniature, magical, choreographic world onto a big screen, stimulating a visual and emotional awakening in the audience.

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Credits

  • Original idea

    Michèle Anne De Mey & Jaco Van Dormael

  • Collective creation

    Michèle Anne De Mey, Gregory Grosjean, Thomas Gunzig, Julien Lambert, Sylvie Olivé, Nicolas Olivier, Jaco Van Dormael

  • Choreography and NanoDanses

    Michèle Anne De Mey & Gregory Grosjean

  • Director

    Jaco Van Dormael

  • Text

    Thomas Gunzig

  • Scenario

    Thomas Gunzig & Jaco Van Dormael

  • Lighting

    Nicolas Olivier

  • Images

    Julien Lambert

  • Camera assistant

    Aurélie Leporcq

  • Sets

    Sylvie Olivé, assisted by Amalgame - Elisabeth Houtart & Michel Vinck

  • Director’s assistants

    Benoît Joveneau, Caroline Hacq

  • Sound design

    Dominique Warnier

  • Audio

    Boris Cekevda

  • Manipulations and performance

    Bruno Olivier, Gabriella Iacono, Pierrot Garnier

  • Construction and props

    Walter Gonzales, Amalgame - Elisabeth Houtart & Michel Vinck

  • Second set crew

    Anne Masset, Vanina Bogaert, Sophie Ferro

  • Stage manager

    Nicolas Olivier

  • Creative technicians

    Gilles Brulard, Pierrot Garnier, Bruno Olivier

  • Music

    George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt, Michael Koenig Gottfried, John Cage, Carlos Paredes, Tchaikovsky, Jacques Prévert, Ligeti, Henryk Gorecki, George Gershwin

  • Narrators

    Jaco Van Dormael (French), Valentijn Dhaenens (Dutch), Yvan Fox Hernandez (Spanish), Toby Regbo (English), Marcus Himbert (German), Angelo Bison (Italian)

  • Contact

    Ivo Ghizzardi

  • Photos

    Maarten Vanden Abeele

  • Production

    Charleroi Danses / le manège.mons - Centre Dramatique

  • Co-production

    Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

  • With the help of

    the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles

Tour Groop

  • Direction

    Jaco Van Dormael / Ivan Fox

  • Dancers

    Michèle Anne De Mey / Frauke Mariën & Denis Robert

  • Camera

    Aurélie Leporcq

  • Assistants to the camera

    Juliette Van Dormael

  • Lighting

    Bruno Olivier

  • Sets manipulation

    Stefano Serra, Thomas Beni & Gabriella Iacono

  • Sound

    Boris Cekevda

  • Light technician

    Wenceslas Kabore

  • Tour manager

    Gladys Brookfield-Hampson

  • Technical coordinator

    Thomas Beni

  • Head of Production & Promotion

    Gladys Brookfield-Hampson

  • Production assistant

    Vanessa Spaey

  • Communication

    Ivo Ghizzardi

Michèle Anne De Mey is associate artist at Charleroi Danses, the Choreographic Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation

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