Fr 05.11.21
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis
promise me
Joke Laureyns & Kwint Manshoven
laGeste (kabinet k + les ballets C de la B) & hetpaleis
Rebels in power promise me is a deliciously brutal ode to the headstrong child.
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‘Watch out!’, you think during the equally dangerous and beautiful dance piece promise me
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promise me: ballet of the longhaired untamed
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Ode to recklessness in times of absolute safety obsession. No, that’s the wrong word, recklessness. What it is then? Drive, glow. Yes, you need to use your body sparingly, but do you also need to use life sparingly?
from: Ode to my scars, a plea for recklessness
David Van Reybrouck in ‘de correspondent’
A relentlessly physical and fiery show in the sign of bravado, guts but also vitality and revolt.
A celebration of the untamed, the reckless, the brave - in times when most people want to insure themselves, preferably against everything.
A flirt with danger, an ode to unbridled curiosity.
promise me is about letting go of control and taking risks.
About embracing the explosive forces inherent in life.
About scars and the stories they leave on our skin.
However battered we come out of the battle, it’s worthwhile to do something you’ve never done before and never dared to do.
Again, Thomas Devos will be in charge of the live music. Thomas has worked with kabinet k before for raw (2013) and horses (2016). He challenges the dancers to leave their fear behind and throw themselves into the arena with pure lust for life.
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choreography Joke laureyns & Kwint manshoven
composition & live music Thomas Devos
with Ido Batash, Ilena Deboeverie,Téa Mahaux, Zélie Mahaux, Kwint Manshoven, Juliette Spildooren en Lili Van den Bruel
stage design Kwint Manshoven & Dirk de Hooghe
dramaturgy Mieke Versyp & Koen Haagdorens
light design Dirk de Hooghe
sound engineering Karel Marynissen or Pieter Kint
costumes Valerie Le Roy
production management Marieke Cardinaels
touring Helena Elshout / laGeste
photography Kurt Van der Elst
production laGeste (kabinet k + les ballets C de la B) & hetpaleis
many thanks to les ballets C de la B
with the support of the Flemish government, the city of Ghent & the Tax Shelter of the Belgian federal government via Casa Kafka
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Su 07.11.21
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis
Tu 09.11.21
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis
We 10.11.21
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis
Fr 12.11.21
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis
Su 14.11.21
- Brussels (BE), festival Export/Import - Kaaitheater i.o.v Bronks
Fr 19.11.21
- Rennes (FR), Théâtre National de Bretagne
Sa 20.11.21
- Rennes (FR), Théâtre National de Bretagne
Su 21.11.21
- Rennes (FR), Théâtre National de Bretagne
We 01.12.21
- Namen (BE), Festival Turbulences, Théâtre de Namur
Fr 14.01.22
- Vilnius (LT), Kitoks Festival
Su 06.02.22
- Roeselare (BE), De Spil
Mo 28.02.22
- Hasselt (BE), Krokusfestival
We 09.03.22
- Deinze (BE), cc Leietheater
Sa 19.03.22
- Luxemburg (LU), Les Rotondes
Su 20.03.22
- Luxemburg (LU), Les Rotondes
Su 27.03.22
- Esbjerg (DK), April Festival
Mo 28.03.22
- Esbjerg (DK), April Festival
Fr 01.04.22
- Amsterdam (NL), Festival Lieve Stad
Su 03.04.22
- Geel (BE), cc De Werft
Sa 09.04.22
- Damme (BE), Cultuurfabriek
Sa 23.04.22
- Sint-Niklaas (BE), cc Sint-Niklaas
Fr 29.04.22
- Zaventem (BE), cc De Factorij
Su 08.05.22
- Stuttgart (DE), Festival Schöne Aussicht
Mo 09.05.22
- Stuttgart (DE), Festival Schöne Aussicht
Fr 13.05.22
Sa 14.05.22
Sa 21.05.22
- Plovdiv (BG), One Dance Week
Th 28.07.22
- Bolzano (IT), Bolzano Danza
Fr 09.09.22
- Essen (DE), Ruhrtriennale
Sa 10.09.22
- Essen (DE), Ruhrtriennale
Su 11.09.22
- Essen (DE), Ruhrtriennale
Th 22.09.22
- Ghent (BE), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER
Fr 23.09.22
- Ghent (BE), Kunstencentrum VIERNULVIER
Fr 30.09.22
- Breda (NL), Chassé Theater
Sa 08.10.22
- Bornem (BE), CC Ter Dilft
Fr 18.11.22
- Arras Douai (FR), TANDEM scène nationale
Sa 19.11.22
- Arras Douai (FR), TANDEM scène nationale
We 23.11.22
- Wetteren (BE), CC Nova
Su 18.12.22
- Bruges (BE), CC Brugge
Fr 03.02.23
- Brétigny-sur-Orge (FR), Théâtre Brétigny
Sa 04.02.23
- Brétigny-sur-Orge (FR), Théâtre Brétigny
Su 19.02.23
- Turnhout (BE), De Warande
Sa 04.03.23
- Beveren (BE), Ter Vesten
Sa 25.03.23
- Lokeren (BE), CC Lokeren
Fr 31.03.23
- Leuven (BE), STUK
Th 20.04.23
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis
Fr 21.04.23
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis - Voltage Festival
Sa 22.04.23
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis - Voltage Festival
Su 23.04.23
- Antwerp (BE), hetpaleis - Voltage Festival
Su 25.06.23
- Brussels (BE), Visueel Festival Visuel - GC De Kroon
Su 03.09.23
- Ghent (BE), Bijloke Wonderland
Fr 22.09.23
- Lyon (FR), La Biennale de Lyon - Le Ciel
Sa 23.09.23
- Lyon (FR), La Biennale de Lyon - Le Ciel
Fr 06.10.23
- Brussels (BE), le140
Sa 07.10.23
- Brussels (BE), le140
Fr 17.11.23
- Antwerp (BE), Dernière in hetpaleis
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duration 1 hour
no language
on tour If you want to programme this performance, contact helena@lageste.be
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© Kurt Van der Elst
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Promise me tears conventions to shreds, individuals to pieces, taboos into strips and neat dance steps into fragments. They dare.This performance drops splintered beauty at your feet and moves you by placing an uninhibited little girl next to a strongman and by transforming girls with blonde angel hair into fierce revolutionaries. This is a wow-turn in the oeuvre of kabinet k and a message to the dance world: to take children seriously as fully-fledged performers who are capable of much more than performing in creations about 'their world'. Kabinet k uses the young soul to make a strong statement, together with and equal to older souls: cherish together the fearlessness in the pursuit of happiness.
Promise me is not only an ode to our inner rebel in a fearful society that swears by control and security. It is also about stubbornly standing up for something. Pushing your boundaries. Going against the flow. And trusting that if you almost hit a wall with your eyes closed, there will always be someone to protect you. It makes promise me a beautiful antidote for these times.
