A performance by
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Ann Veronica Janssens
Michel François

Created with and performed by
Pieter Ampe
Bostjan Antoncic
Eleanor Bauer
Carlos Garbin
Matej Kejzar
Mark Lorimer
Mikael Marklund
Simon Mayer
Michael Pomero
Sandy Williams

Foley Artist
Céline Bernard

Scenography
Ann Veronica Janssens & Michel François

Costumes
Anne-Catherine Kunz

Rehearsal director
Muriel Hérault

Dramaturgy
Claire Diez

Musical advisor
Eugénie De Mey
Kris Dane

Foley artist advisor
Olivier Thys

Assistants to the artistic director
Anne Van Aerschot
Femke Gyselinck

Production management
Johan Penson assisted by Tom Van Aken

Technicians
Davy Deschepper, Jan Herinckx, Bardia Mohammad, Simo Reynders, Wannes De Rydt,
Jitske Vandenbussche

Sound
Alex Fostier, Vanessa Court

Thanks to
Jérôme Bel, Tim Etchells, Alain Franco, Deborah Hay, Chrysa Parkinson, Rita Poelvoorde, Michael
Schmid, Herman Sorgeloos, Philippe Van Leer

Première
24.09.2009, Théâtre de la Ville Paris

Production
Rosas

Co-production
La Monnaie / De Munt, Bruxelles / Brussel / Brussels
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg
Concertgebouw Brugge

‘The Song’ is about a world that is rushing ahead of itself, dashing at an ever faster tempo. A world whose acceleration is increasing to the extent that standstill seems inevitable. As ever, at the heart of this whirlwind of change stands the body, at the eye of the storm. As a sounding board in a reality that is chaotically transforming.

In ‘The Song’, ten dancers – nine men and one woman – stand on an empty stage. It is stripped to its bare essentials. To the elementary constituents of theatre: light, sound and movement. The acting area marked out by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, together with the artists Ann Veronica Janssens and Michel François, is a desert. The arid land which in spite of itself gives life to new possibilities: a playful solo in which the body seeks out its own weightlessness or a group choreography like a flock of birds in full flight, the constantly shifting patterns at the same time a sample of mathematical precision and human inventiveness.