“Auto-bio-choreo-graphic”: this is how Jérôme Bel describes his solo piece named after himself and created after the performance Isadora Duncan. The artist narrates his story with humour and tenderness, at the same time sharing his doubts, commitments, failures and passions. A genealogy of the driving forces of work, where the personal is linked to the artistic and the political.
The performance contains nudity.
Text – Videos Jérôme Bel
Assistant Maxime Kurvers
Performers Stavroula Siamou, Frédéric Seguette, Claire Haenni, Gisèle Pelozuelo, Yseult Roch, Olga De Soto, Peter Vandenbempt, Sonja Augart, Simone Verde, Esther Snelder, Nicole Beutler, Eva Meyer Keller, Germana Civera, Benoît Izard, Ion Munduate, Cuqui Jerez, Juan Dominguez, Carine Charaire, Hester Van Hasselt, Dina Ed Dik, Amaia Urra, Carlos Pez, Henrique Neves, Johannes Sundrup, Véronique Doisneau, Damian Bright, Matthias Brücker, Remo Beuggert, Julia Häusermann, Tiziana Pagliaro, Miranda Hossle, Peter Keller, Gianni Blumer, Matthias Grandjean, Sara Hess, Lorraine Meier, Simone Truong, Akira Lee, Aldo Lee, Houda Daoudi, Cédric Andrieux, Chiara Gallerani, Taous Abbas, Stéphanie Gomes, Marie-Yolette Jura, Nicolas Garsault, Vassia Chavaroche, Magali Saby, Ryo Bel, Sheila Atala, Diola Djiba, Michèle Bargues, La Bourette, Catherine Gallant • Images Herman Sorgeloos, Marie-Hélène Rebois, Aldo Lee, Pierre Dupouey, Olivier Lemaire, Chloé Mossessian • Production of the videos CND Centre national de la danse, Opéra national de Paris/Telmondis in association with France 2 with the participation of Mezzo et du Centre national de la cinématographie, R.B. Jérôme Bel / Theater Hora, French Institute Alliance Française - FIAF
Production of the performance R.B. Jérôme Bel
Co-production Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), La Commune centre dramatique national d’Aubervilliers, Festival d’Automne à Paris, R.B. Jérôme Bel (Paris)
The writing of the performance text is part of the creative process of Sustainable theatre ? conceived by Katie Mitchell, Jérôme Bel and Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne,
Co-produced by STAGES - Sustainable Theatre Alliance for a Green Environmental Shift cofunded by European Union: Dramaten Stockholm, National Theater & Concert Hall, Taipei, NTGent, Piccolo Teatro di Milano -Teatro d'Europa, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II Lisboa, Théâtre de Liège, Lietuvos nacionalinio dramos teatro, Hrvatsko narodno kazalište u Zagrebu, Slovensko narodno gledališce Maribor, Trafo Budapest, MC93 Maison de la culture de Seine-Saint-Denis
Greek surtitles Eleni Stamatopoulou
With the support of Institut français de Grèce – Cooperation and Cultural Action Service of the Embassy of France in Greece
