DANCE
Jan Fabre |
Written 30 January |
Saturday 19 June, 20:30Théâtre des Abbesses, 75018 [map]Jan Fabre
Not only is
Jan Fabre capable of the most ample stage displays (a recent example was L’Orgie de la Tolérance An Orgy of Tolerance), he has also become a master in the conception of tailor-made solos for exceptionally talented performers, whether actors (Els Deceukelier, Dirk Roothhooft…) or dancers (
Erna Omarsdottir,
Wim Vandekeybus…). Ivana Jozic - a new Muse in Jan Fabre’s artistic pantheon - had already been part of L’Ange de la Mort The Angel of Death, a video performance in which she features as a fallen angel interviewing
William Forsythe. In Fabre’s deeply moving piece Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day, she is alone on a stage darkened by coal heaps, where miniature trains constantly run, and doves in their cages observe the scene from above. Using a country music song, Ode to Billie Joe, in which Bobbie Gentry tells the story of a young man who commits suicide by jumping from a bridge, Jan Fabre has coined a text in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved; it’s “a manifesto in favour of one’s freedom when facing death”. Ivana Jozic takes full possession of it, and with unrivalled intensity.
| What: | Jan Fabre |
| When: | Saturday 19 June, 20:30 |
| Where: | Théâtre des Abbesses, 31 rue des Abbesses 75018 [map] |
| Transport: | Abbesses |
| Cost: | 12 - 23EUR |
| Phone: | +33 (0)1 42 74 22 77 |
| Web: | www.theatredelaville-paris.com |
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