Kiss & Cry

Something of a growing cult among those who have seen it and dubbed by the press, Kiss & Cry is an universal fable where humanity fits in a pocket handkerchief. A must-see.

MICHÈLE ANNE DE MEY & JACO VAN DORMAEL

a  collective creation with Grégory Grosjean, Thomas Gunzig, Julien Lambert, Sylvie Olivé, Nicolas Olivier

A product of the imagination of Michèle Anne De Mey and Jaco Van Dormael, this show has been in a continual state of grace for three years. It is a world that evidently has universal significance given that it is still playing to packed theatres after over two hundred dates worldwide. Its basic premise is the memory we have of people who made us and who have left us. The subject is dealt with in a revolutionary way. That is to say a film is shot and projected simultaneously in the space and time of the theatre, based on the creation in vivo of a nanoworld in which simple prehensile endings become characters dancing amid miniature landscapes. That said, nothing has been revealed.

Générique

Original idea Michèle Anne De Mey & Jaco Van DormaelIn collective creation with Grégory Grosjean, Thomas Gunzig, Julien Lambert, Sylvie Olivé, Nicolas OlivierChoreography, NanoDanses Michèle Anne De Mey, Grégory GrosjeanDirected by Jaco Van DormaelTexts Thomas GunzigScript Thomas Gunzig, Jaco Van DormaelLighting Nicolas OlivierCamera Julien LambertFocus puller Aurélie LeporcqSet designer Sylvie Olivé assisted by Amalgame – Elisabeth Houtart & Michel VinckDirector’s assistants Benoît Joveneau, Caroline HacqSound design Dominique WarnierSound Boris CekevdaManipulations, performance Bruno Olivier, Gabriella Iacono, Pierrot GarnierConstruction, props Walter Gonzales, Amalgame – Elisabeth Houtart & Michel VinckSecond set design Anne Masset, Vanina Bogaert, Sophie FerroStage manager Nicolas OlivierCreative technicians Gilles Brulard, Pierrot Garnier, Bruno OlivierMusic George Frideric Handel, Antonio Vivaldi, Arvo Pärt, Michael Koenig Gottfried, John Cage, Carlos Paredes, Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski, Jacques Prevert Ligeti, Henryk Gorecki, George GershwinNarrators Jaco Van Dormael (French) / Valentijn Dhaenens (Dutch) / Ivan Fox (Spanish) / Toby Regbo (English) / Marcus Himbert (German) / Angelo Bison (Italian) / Yu Jin Tae (Korean), Dimitris Mastoros (Greek)Communication Ivo GhizzardiPictures Maarten Vanden Abeele-Production Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles / le manège.mons, Centre DramatiqueCoproduction Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg  With the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation