Anne Teresa and Jolente De Keersmaeker create Somnia with 44 young P.A.R.T.S. students.
Published on 08.05.2019, 16:53
Together with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Jolente De Keersmaeker, forty-four dancers enter into a dialogue with the natural landscape, where factors such as sound and silence, light and dark, distance and proximity become a matter of perspective, and where both new possibilities and boundaries emerge. In search of an ecological aesthetic they leave behind the four walls of the theatre for a performance that requires few theatrical interventions and fuse seamlessly with the natural environment.
The woods and the night sky offer the perfect backdrop for the ‘dreams’ to which the title Somnia refers. The first of the dreams is Somnium, a novel by the seventeenth-century astronomer Johannes Kepler, in which science and science fiction merge to show that the planets revolve around the sun in an elliptic orbit. The second dream underpinning the performance is A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Combining Shakespeare and Kepler, the dancers explore the intersection of text, dance and music playing with gravity while guided by fantastic stories in a space-time far beyond the borders of urban theatre.
Somnia is the graduation project of PARTS final-year students. It’s the first time that choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, who founded the school in 1995, makes a creation with all the PARTS students together.
For this project, she is collaborating with Jolente De Keersmaeker, theatre maker and member of tg STAN.
Somnia is created in the framework of Kunstenfestivaldesarts and will be performed daily between 29 May and 1 June at 8 pm at the castle park of Gaasbeek. This project is made possible with the support of the Agency for Nature and Forests (Agentschap Natuur & Bos) and the Gaasbeek Castle (Kasteel van Gaasbeek).
Because of Somnia’s overwhelming success at Kunstenfestivaldesarts, PARTS is organising an extra series of performances from 5 to 9 June. These extra performances are presented by Kaaitheater. Ticket sales for this extra series are handled exclusively by Kaaitheater.
Somnia during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts: 29 May - 1 June
More info & tickets
Extra series of Somnia in cooperation with Kaaitheater: 5 - 9 June
More info & tickets
SOMNIA
P.A.R.T.S. / Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jolente De Keersmaeker
With
Rita Alves (PT), Maureen Bator (FR), Cassandre Cantillon (BE), Calvin Carrier (UK), Wai Lok Chan (HK), Aminata Diallo (FR), Synne Enoksen (NO), Papis Faye (SN), José Fernandez (ES), Carolina Ferreira (PT), Némo Flouret (FR), Rafael Dos Santos (BR), Jonas Gineika (LT), Tessa Hall (NZ), Hanako Hayakawa (JP), Hyeonseok Lee (KR), Thomas Higginson (UK), Mei-Ning Huang (TW), Cheyenne Illegems (BE), Keren Kraizer (IL), Georges Labbat (FR), Robson Ledesma (BR), Eimi Leggett (JP), Ivan Lucadamo (ES), Lydia McGlinchey (AU), Audrey Merilus (FR), Vasco Mirine (MZ), Fouad Nafili (MA), Azusa Namba (JP), Timothy Nouzak (AT), Stanley Ollivier (FR), Alban Ovanessian (FR), Jean-Baptiste Portier (FR), Margarida Ramalhete (PT), Luis Ramirez Munoz (CO), Myriam Rosser (ES), Julia Rubies (ES), Cintia Sebök (HU), Joshua Serafin (PH), Mariana Silva (BR), Judith Van Oeckel (BE), Mooni Van Tichel (BE), Gustavo Vieira (BR), Mamadou Wague (FR)
Created with
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Jolente De Keersmaeker
Artistic assistants
Marie Goudot, Michaël Pomero, Scarlet Tummers
Text
Somnium, Johannes Kepler
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare
Music
after
The Fairy Queen, Henry Purcell
Arrangements
Fabian Fiorini, Calvin Carrier, Némo Flouret
Musical advice
Tom Pauwels
Musicians
Laurent Blondiau, Lieve De Sadeleer, Isabel Favilla, Benjamin Postal, Kinga Ludvai
Voice coach
Lucy Grauman, Fabienne Seveillac
Natural Movement
Aron Blom
Costumes
Lila John
Costumes assistant
Heide Vanderieck
Production assistant
Sien Van Dycke
Fire
Corentin Hannon, Dries Kestemont
Technicians
Steven Peeters, Herman Venderickx
Kitchen
Wieke Nelissen, Sureshkumar Rajendran, Carole Sainte-Marie, Petronella van der Hallen
P.A.R.T.S.
Lief Bigare, Etienne Bracke, Johanna Buys, Jens Buysschaert, Sandra Da Costa, Steven De Belder, Laura De Bie, Els De Meyer, Maria Leandro, Steven Peeters, Manon Santkin, Naomi Solomaniuck, Charlotte Vandevyver, Sien Van Dycke, Theo Van Rompay, Sandy Williams, Czeslaw Wnorowski
Location
Kasteelpark Gaasbeek
Production
P.A.R.T.S.
Coproduction
Rosas, tg STAN, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Agentschap Natuur & Bos, Kasteel van Gaasbeek
Presentation
Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Kaaitheater, Agentschap Natuur & Bos, Kasteel van Gaasbeek
Thanks to
Kuno Bakker, Bart Coen, De gemeente Lennik, Hugo De Greef, De Groentelaar met Tijs Boelens, Nicolas Naessens en Sander Van Haver, De School van Gaasbeek, Drinks Limbourg, Juan Díaz Dorronsoro, Eva Fillet, Jade Fillet, Rone Fillet, Steven Fillet, Thomas Hertog, Ictus, Floor Keersmaekers, Emilie Kino, Luc Mishalle, Klaas Tindemans
P.A.R.T.S. is supported by the Flemish Ministry of Education