Created by
Fumiyo Ikeda
Benjamin Verdonck
Alain Platel
Anne-Catherine Kunz
Herman Sorgeloos
Performed by
Fumiyo Ikeda
Benjamin Verdonck
Production co-ordination
Hanne Van Waeyenberge
Johan Penson
Production
Rosas
KVS
De Munt / La Monnaie
Première
17 January 2007 20:30 KVS Brussels
Thanks to
Hildegard De Vuyst, Frank Van Dessel, Willy Thomas, Sara Jansen, An-Marie Lambrechts, Geert Opsomer, Valentine Kempynck, Vincent Dunoyer, Josse De Pauw, Flint, Anani Dodji Sanouvi, Chrysa Parkinson, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Guy Gypens, Hanne Pleysier, Jonas Devos, Manu Devriendt, Stijn, Gregory Brems, Leen Persoons, Tomas Desmet, Samuel Turpin, Dennis Tyfus, Renzo Martens, Dirk Verstockt, Jitske Vandenbussche, Guy Cassiers.
Photos (c) Herman Sorgeloos
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Benjamin Verdonck, a physical actor, and Fumiyo Ikeda, a dramatic dancer, with producer and choreographer Alain Platel as a link between the two: it is the combination of artistic forces that speaks to the imagination. Ikeda, who has been at Rosas for almost 20 years, brought them together; Verdonck put some gut-wrenching material on the table, namely the book Beasts of No Nation, the debut by Uzodinma Iweala, an American of Nigerian origin. Through the eyes of a child soldier somewhere in Africa, the author looks at the perversity of war. The book is written in a rudimentary English, childish and direct. Each of the two performers in Nine Finger uses their own resources to tell this story together. They do so with nothing in their hands and nothing in their pockets but great admiration and poetic mastery. Under the surface the great question still bubbles: how can we, through our art, relate to the cruelty of the world? |
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