Jan Lauwers & Needcompany
Isabella’s Room
Isabella's Room, which triumphed at the Avignon Festival in 2004, is the work of Jan Lauwers, an Antwerp-born (1957) director and visual artist who founded the Needcompany in 1985. Lauwers is relatively unknown in Greece, despite the decisive influence he has had on the European dance scene over the last twenty years alongside the likes of Jan Fabre and Wim Vandekeybus, all who helped sweep change through the world of culture, knocking down the divisions that often stand between the arts. The role of Isabella, a blind, 94-year-old woman who bears the heavy history of nigh on a century on her shoulders, is performed by Lauwers' muse, the superb Viviane De Muynck. The production features nine performers; speech, song, dance and images are all assigned equal weight.
A Festival d’Avignon, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Théâtre Garonne (Toulouse), La Rose des Vents (Scène Nationale de Villeneuve d’Ascq), Brooklyn Academy of Music (New York), and the Theaterfestival Welt in Basel co-production.
With Greek surtitles.
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Duration 2 hours
Peiraios 260 (D)
- 15/06 until 18/06/2007 at 21:00
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