Kiss & Cry Program (2015)

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MICHÈLE ANNE DE MEY JACO VAN DORMAEL

FEB 4 – 7, 2016 BLUMA APPEL THEATRE A CHARLEROI DANSES PRODUCTION PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE SCO R E

MICHÈLE ANNE DE MEY & JACO VAN DORMAEL GRÉGORY GROSJEAN, THOMAS GUNZIG, JULIEN LAMBERT, SYLVIE OLIVÉ, NICOLAS OLIVIER

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BRUNO OLIVIER, JACKIE DELEVOYE GABRIELLA IACONO SO U N D

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ALANNA MCCONNELL This production runs approximately 90 minutes.

There is no intermission CANADIAN STAGE DANCE PROGRAMMING SUPPORTER Production Charleroi Danses / le manège.mons - Centre Dramatique Coproduction Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg with the support of the Fédération Wallonie Bruxelles

Michèle Anne De Mey (Brussels - 1959) is a Belgian choreographer and former student at Mudra (from 1976 to 1979), the school founded by Maurice Béjart (Brussels). She pointed contemporary dance in a new direction with her first choreographies : Passé Simple (1981) and the duos Ballatum (1984) and Face à Face (1986). At the same time, she worked with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker for six years on the creation and interpretation of several of her choreographies, namely Fase (1982), Rosas danst Rosas (1983), Elena’s Aria (1984) and Ottone, ottone (1988). Although special consideration is always given to the relationship between dance and music, the choreographic structure of Michèle Anne De Mey’s creations cultivates a strong theatrical content and places the dancer in a specific and innovative relationship between stage and audience. In 1990, she founded her company on the occasion of Sinfonia Eroica. Following this, there were 15 other creations which met with international acclaim, among them Raining Dogs (2002), Utopie (2001), Katamenia (1997), Pulcinella (1994), Love Sonnets (1994), Châteaux en Espagne (1991), Cahier (1995), etc. Her pedagogical contribution has also been significant (in Amsterdam, at INSAS in Brussels, CNDC in Angers and École en Couleurs). For three years, she worked with the children at École en Couleurs on the elaboration of Sacre en Couleurs, a creation presented on the occasion of Bruxelles/Brussel 2000. Her choreographic work has been the starting point for several films, such as Love Sonnets and 21 Études à danser by Thierry De Mey, and Face à Face by Eric Pauwels.

Using the force of music to create her choreographic universe, she worked with the renowned composers Thierry De Mey, Robert Wyatt and Jonathan Harvey. For several years, she has been working in close collaboration with other artists such as artist-scenographer Simon Siegmann and the filmmaker-composer Thierry De

Mey. In June 2006 she recreated one of her seminal pieces from the 1990s – Sinfonia Eroica – for nine dancers. This has gone on to be performed more than a hundred times all over the world. In December 2007 she created P.L.U.G, a show all about the mechanics of mating.

Michèle Anne presented Koma, a solo for a female dancer, during the Made in Korea festival staged by BOZAR in June 2009.

This solo is one of a series of four, with the other three by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Arco Renz and Thomas Hauert. Neige opened the Charleroi Danses Biennale in November 2009 before going on tour.

For the VIA festival in March 2011, she worked with Jaco Van Dormael and in a group comprising Grégory Grosjean, Thomas Gunzig, Julien Lambert, Nicolas Olivier and Sylvie Olivé on Kiss & Cry, a highly original and ambitious show confronting film, dance, words, theatre and brilliant DIY. Michèle Anne De Mey is now associate artist at Charleroi Danses, the Choreographic Centre of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. She presented her latest work Lamento in May 2012, a solo created for and performed by the dancer Gabriella Iacono based on Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna. As Kiss & Cry tours the world, its creators – Michèle Anne De Mey, Jaco Van Dormael, Thomas Gunzig, and the collective – premiered a new creation, Cold Blood at Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture in December 2015.

JACO VAN DORMAEL Jaco Van Dormael was born on February 9, 1957 in Ixelles, Belgium and spent part of his childhood in Germany. After studying film at Louis-Lumière in Paris and INSAS in Brussels, he became a children’s theatre director and clown. He wrote and directed several fictional short films and documentaries – Maedeli La-Breche (1980), Stade, (1981), L’imitateur (1982), Sortie de secours (1983), E pericoloso Sporgersi (1984) and De Boot (1985) – before going on to write and direct three feature-length films: Toto the Hero

(1991) with Michel Bouquet, which won a Caméra d’or award at the Cannes Film Festival, The Eighth Day with Pascal Duquenne and Daniel Auteuil (1996), which won the best actor prize (ex æquo) at Cannes, and Mr. Nobody (2009) with Jared Leto, Sarah Polley, Diane Kruger and Lin Dan Pham, which won a prize at the Venice Film Festival and three prizes at the Magrittes awards ceremony (best film, best director and best original screenplay), as well as the Audience Prize at the European Film Awards.

Jaco Van Dormael has also directed for theatre, including Est-ce qu’on ne pourrait pass’aimer un peu? with Eric De Staerke.

In 2012 he directed his first opera, César Franck’s Stradella, to mark the reopening of The Opéra Royal de Wallonie in Liège.

He is now completing his fourth featurelength film, Le Tout Nouveau Testament, a comedy starring Benoit Poelvoorde, Yolande Moreau and Catherine Deneuve. In the dreamy atmosphere of his productions, Jaco Van Dormael explores the power of the imagination and the contribution of childhood. In less than thirty years he has developed a poetic and ambitious world of his own with non-linear forms. He lives with the choreographer Michèle Anne De Mey and has two daughters, Alice and Juliette. His brother Pierre Van Dormael (1952-2008) was a composer and jazz guitarist.

THOMAS GUNZIG Born in Brussels in 1970, Thomas Gunzig began his writing career with the publication of Situation instable penchant vers le mois d’août, a short story collection that was awarded the 1998 Prix de l’Ecrivain étudiant de la Ville de Bruxelles. This was to be the first of many literary milestones for Gunzig; from the novel Mort d’un parfait bilingue (Prix Rossel 2001), the children’s book Nom de code: Superpouvoir, 6449), to the musical comedy Belle à mourir, and numerous works adapted for the big screen in France and Belgium, including Spiderman (screenplay by Christophe

Perie and produced by Jan Kounen). He collaborated with Jaco Van Dormael, Harry Clevens and Comes on the film adaptation of the comic book Silence; and co-wrote Jaco Van Dormael’s most recent film Le Tout Dernier Testament. His novels are regularly translated in German, Russian, Italian and Czech. Highly engaged in education, Gunzig regularly leads writing workshops and conferences in Belgium and abroad. He teaches Literature at l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels de La Cambre and l’Institut Supérieur Saint-Luc de Bruxelles, and was elected vice president of SCAM (Société civile des auteurs multimedia), in 2007. A respected media personality, Gunzig writes for diverse newspapers and magazines, lent his voice to the popular Belgian radio show Jeu des Dictionnaires (RTFB) and is currently a guest contributor to the morning show Matin Première.

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cold blood

BY MICHÈLE ANNE DE MEY, JACO VAN DORMAEL & THE KISS & CRY COLLECTIF PRESENTED BY CANADIAN STAGE

Julien Lambert

MICHÈLE ANNE DE MEY

FEB 10 - 14 B LU MA APPE L THE ATRE