Concept und Regie: Jan Fabre / Performance: Annabelle Chambon, Cédric Charron, Tabitha Cholet, Anny Czupper, Conor Thomas Doherty, Stella Höttler, Ivana Jozic, Gustav Koenigs, Mariateresa Notarangelo, Çigdem Polat, Annabel Reid, Merel Severs, Ursel Tilk, Kasper Vandenberghe and Andrew James Van Ost / Text: Johan de Boose / Music: Raymond van het Groenewoud (Belgian Rules and Vlaanderen Boven/Wallonie d’abord) and Andrew James Van Ostade (all carnival music and soundscapes, and rap) / Dramaturgy: Miet Martens / Assistance dramaturgy: Edith Cassiers / Costume design: Kasia Mielczarek and Jonne Sikkema, Les Ateliers du Théâtre de Liège, Catherine Somers (carnival hats) / Intern assistant to the director: Nina Certyn / Intern costume design: Monika Nyckowska / Intern P.U.L.S. (Project for Upcoming artists on the Large Stage): Timeau De Keyser / Technical management: André Schneider / Production management: Sebastiaan Peeters / Light technique: Wout Janssens / Stage technique: Randy Tielemans, Kevin Deckers / Sound technique: Howard Heckers / (Inter)national Sales: Sophie Vanden Broeck / Company management: Mark Geurden / Press and communication: Floria Lomme
Jan Fabre / Troubleyn
Belgian Rules / Belgium Rules
- Performance
- Dance
Various languages /
With German translation /
With English translation /
3h 35 Min.
Not as the story of nationalism, but rather as the story of a complete lack of nationalism. This is how Belgium is represented in a passionate and ambivalent homage. In "Belgian Rules/Belgium Rules," Jan Fabre reaches into the treasure chests and trash buckets of his homeland Belgium. He tells its history with the aid of a heterogenous collection of references from the Belgian art history: from Hieronymus Bosch and Jan van Eyck to René Magritte. Through these abundant images, arranged in a strict symmetry of 14 chapters, fantasy and reality, myths and facts are combined – ever so stimulating. Not only are these paintings provocatively brought to life, they become the basis to study socio-cultural phenomena – and not solely Belgian ones. Both poetic and funny, contemplative and enraging, the result is always highly aesthetic. Last in 2013 HAU Hebbel am Ufer invited twoof Fabre’s iconic pieces from the 80s:“The Power of Theatrical Madness”and “This is theatre like it was to be expected and foreseen.”
Production: Troubleyn/Jan Fabre. Co-production: Napoli Teatro Festival Italia-Fondazione Campania dei Festival, ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Théâtre de Liège, Concertgebouw Brugge.
Cast
Dates
Past
Credits
Production: Troubleyn/Jan Fabre. Co-production: Napoli Teatro Festival Italia-Fondazione Campania dei Festival, ImPulsTanz Vienna International Dance Festival, Théâtre de Liège, Concertgebouw Brugge.
Location
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