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Alain Platel / les ballets C de la B, Münchner Kammerspiele
TAUBERBACH
International Exhibition Centre, Ķīpsalas iela 8
Saturday, 8th November, 19:00 (artist talk after the performance)
Sunday, 9th November, 19:00
No text
Duration 1h 30m

Concept, direction and choreography: Alain Platel
Co-authors and performers: Bérengère Bodin, Elsie de Brauw, Lisi Estaras, Ross McCormack, Elie Tass, Romeu Runa
Dramatists: Koen Tachelet, Hildegard de Vuyst
Musical director: Steven Prengels
Lighting: Carlo Bourguignon
Sound design: Bart Uyttersport
Scenography: Alain Platel and les ballets C de la B
Costume: Teresa Vergho
Producers: les ballets C de la B, Münchner Kammerspiele
www.lesballetscdela.be

Premiere: Münchner Kammerspiele, Jaunary, 2014

Tickets at Biļešu Paradīze, New Theatre Institute of Latvia (Miera iela 39-2, Rīga) and at the venue before the show (cash only).
Ticket price 20 EUR and 15 EUR (for pupils, students, seniors, people with disabilities).
Reduced price for theatre professionals and students 10 EUR (tickets for professionals can only be purchased at New Theatre Institute of Latvia, sandra@theatre.lv, +371 67228477)

In tauberbach, director Alain Platel intends to continue previous research into the development of movement material that he describes as “bastard dance”. He is actually looking for movements that come about when dancers “explore those areas of their mind yet untouched by civilisation”.

The starting point of tauberbach is Marco Prado’s documentary Estamira, telling the story of a woman who suffers from schizophrenia and who lives and works at a waste disposal site in Rio de Janeiro. She has developed her own very particular way of communicating with the small community she lives in. Hence the theme: “how to live or even survive with dignity under nearly impossible circumstances”. Other sources of inspiration for this performance are ‘Tauber Bach’ of Artur Zmijewski (Bach music sung by deaf people), chorales by Bach and Mozart aria performed live by the artists during the performance.

FILM PROGRAMME
All films will be shown free of charge at the cinema ‘Ksuns’ on Elizabetes str. 83/85, Rīga.

ESTAMIRA
8th and 9th November, 18:00
121 min, with English subtitles
Director and writer: Marcos Prado
Brazil, 2004

Documentary about Estamira, a 63-year-old woman who has been working at a landfill in Rio de Janeiro for over 20 years. Schizophrenic, but very charismatic, she’s the leader of a small community of old people living off garbage and has a very lyrical and philosophical attitude towards life. This film was also one of the inspirations for Alain Platel to create tauberbach.

LES BALLETS DE CI DE LÀ
9th November, 14:00
110 min, with English subtitles
Director and writer: Alain Platel
Choreography: Christine De Smedt, Koen Augustijnen, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alain Platel
With Ghislain Malardier, Necati Köylü, Serge Aimé Coulibaly, Erna van Akoleyen, Quan Bui Ngoc
France/Belgium, 2006

In this full-length documentary, Alain Platel celebrates the essence of the peculiar human characteristics which have been fueling the work of les ballets C de la B for the past twenty years. Who are the dancers of les ballets C de la B? Where do they come from? And how do they transcend the world on stage? A film filled with impressions, focusing on a unique company in the world of live dance. An emotional voyage which allows us to share the artistic and human adventure of les ballets C de la B.

PASSION – LAST STOP KINSHASA
9th November, 16:00
90 min, with English subtitles
Directors: Jörg Jeshel & Brigitte Kramer
Film is based on Alain Platel’s and Fabrizio Cassol’s performance “pitié!”
With les ballets C de la B
Producer: Nachtaktivfilm
Berlin/Kinshasa, 2009

les ballets C de la B was on tour for one year with the piece pitié! from director Alain Platel and musician Fabrizio Cassol. The tour took them to major capital cities including Berlin, Paris and Tokyo. After more than 100 performances pitié!  concluded in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic Kongo. Following several years of unrest and political instability, the country is aspiring to new cultural horizons.For filmmakers Jörg Jeshel and Brigitte Kramer this was the starting point for the documentary Passion – Last Stop Kinshasa.  The film is a documentary not only on the breathtaking show, but on the reactions in Congo as well.

Contemporary theatre programme forte forte is the event of Riga 2014 – European Capital of Culture supported by foundation “Riga 2014”, Riga City Council, Ministry of Culture, State Culture Capital Foundation, Latvia’s State Forests, Goethe Institut, VEF Cultural centre, Riga Film Studio, Cinema KSuns, Antalis, Albert Hotel, Art Hotel Laine, AirBaltic, Airos, NA, UBS, PBX, Clear Channel, euroAWK, Diena, KDi, Rīgas Laiks.

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