Lutz Förster
Lutz Förster in "Lutz Förster" / Photo: Anna van Kooij
In his homage to Lutz Förster, Jérôme Bel focuses on the relationship between art and life and explores, together with the dancer, the interrelationship of role and person on the stage. Lutz Förster ventures a look back over his career, recalling his collaboration with stage icons Susanne Linke, Robert Wilson and Pina Bausch.
Jérôme Bel creates dance about dance. His choreographies and performances are a sort of "sleight of memory" that stand in sharp contrast with the fleeting nature of the medium. The dances "Véronique Doisneau", "Pichet Klunchun" and now "Lutz Förster" have so far been produced.
The themes are collaborative activity, the work of Pina Bausch and the difficult interplay of alienation and emancipation. This is a compelling prelude to the theatre and dance programme of RUHR.2010.
With extracts from pieces by: Pina Bausch (Kontakthof; 1980 - a piece by Pina Bausch; Nelken (Carnations); Ahnen; Für die Kinder von gestern, heute und morgen (Ancestors: For the Children of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow)) and José Limón (The Moor’s Pavane).
Concept: Jérôme Bel
By/with: Lutz Förster and Jérôme Bel
In collaboration with: Bettina Masuch
For the opening of RUHR.2010
January 9, 2010, 17:00
January 10, 2010, 18:00
PACT Zollverein, Essen
In English
Production: Springdance (Utrecht), R.B. Jérôme Bel (Paris), in collaboration with Landshoff Entertainment, sponsored by: Federal Cultural Foundation. Jérôme Bel is supported by: Direction regionale des affaires culturelles d‘Île-de-France, French Ministry for Culture and Communication and Culturesfrance, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs at international events