ALEXANDRA BACHZETSIS (EDITION II)
Musical
Festival a/d Werf will premier Alexandra Bachzetsis 'Musical' as part of If I Can't Dance... The artist has created a performance piece based on dance, a series of classic musicals and elaborated karoke style-video works. The work mimics and refers to particular scenes or moods from the genre of the 20th century musical stretching from the 20's to the 90's.
The characteristic of these musicals is their structuring along 'clear cut' male and female roles and their stories are constantly played though the language of love. What quickly becomes clear is how rigidly stylized the characters are in terms of their sexuality - the women are both dressed and produced as highly sexualized bodies which fluctuate between different characteristics at times coquettish, graceful, funny, ditzy at times sophisticated and seductive but their gendered role is never in question rather it is accentuated in the musical role.
Festival a/d Werf will premier Alexandra Bachzetsis 'Musical' as part of If I Can't Dance... The artist has created a performance piece based on dance, a series of classic musicals and elaborated karoke style-video works. The work mimics and refers to particular scenes or moods from the genre of the 20th century musical stretching from the 20's to the 90's.
The characteristic of these musicals is their structuring along 'clear cut' male and female roles and their stories are constantly played though the language of love. What quickly becomes clear is how rigidly stylized the characters are in terms of their sexuality - the women are both dressed and produced as highly sexualized bodies which fluctuate between different characteristics at times coquettish, graceful, funny, ditzy at times sophisticated and seductive but their gendered role is never in question rather it is accentuated in the musical role.
Premier: 23 May + 24 May, 2006 , Huis a/d Werf, Theaterzaal
'Musical', Alexandra Bachzetsis, May 2006, Festival a/d Werf
MUSICAL
Concept & Choreography
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Sound
Lies Van Born
Video
Han van Nuffel & Rutger De Brabander
Costumes
Frederick Denis & Isabelle Lhoas
Dancers
Vela Arbutina, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Phillippe Beloul, Anna Geering, Otobong Nkanga, Ayelen Parolin, Diederik Peeters, Gosie Vervloessem, Voin Vownow.
Coproduction: If I Can't Dance..., Huis- en Festival a/d Werf, De Appel arts centre, Vooruit, Theater Gessnerallee, DasArts Final Project.
Concept & Choreography
Alexandra Bachzetsis
Sound
Lies Van Born
Video
Han van Nuffel & Rutger De Brabander
Costumes
Frederick Denis & Isabelle Lhoas
Dancers
Vela Arbutina, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Phillippe Beloul, Anna Geering, Otobong Nkanga, Ayelen Parolin, Diederik Peeters, Gosie Vervloessem, Voin Vownow.
Coproduction: If I Can't Dance..., Huis- en Festival a/d Werf, De Appel arts centre, Vooruit, Theater Gessnerallee, DasArts Final Project.
