Requiem pour L.
Alain Platel & Fabrizio Cassol/les ballets C de la B/Festival de Marseille/Berliner Festspiele
dates
Thu 12.03, 22:32
location
DE SINGEL
duration
100 min.
Info
For Requiem pour L. director/choreographer Alain Platel and composer Fabrizio Cassol turned their attention to Mozart. The idea came from Cassol, known from the avant-garde jazz band Aka Moon. With this contemporary interpretation of Mozart’s Requiem, he continues to write a personal artistic history in which he brings together various musical cultures around a particular theme. For this he draws on both oral and written traditions. Fourteen African and European musicians reconstruct Mozart’s Requiem by fusing it with jazz, opera and popular African music. Alain Platel searches for a physical and visual translation of associations and images that conjure up a requiem, from a funeral mass, to mass graves, to farewell rituals.
Credits
music Fabrizio Cassol after Mozarts Requiem | direction Alain Platel | conductor Rodriguez Vangama | by & with Rodriguez Vangama (guitar and elektric bass), Boule Mpanya, Fredy Massamba & Russell Tshiebua (vocals), Nobulumko Mngxekeza, Owen Metsileng & Stephen Diaz/Rodrigo Ferreira (lyric vocals), Joao Barradas (accordion), Kojack Kossakamvwe (elektric guitar), Niels Van Heertum (euphonium), Bouton Kalanda & Erick Ngoya, Silva Makengo (likembe) & Michel Seba (percussions) | dramaturgy Hildegard De Vuyst | musical assistant Maribeth Diggle | choreographic assistant Quan Bui Ngoc | video Simon Van Rompay | camera Natan Rosseel | set design Alain Platel | set realized by Wim Van de Cappelle in collaboration with decoratelier NTGent | light design Carlo Bourguignon | sound design Carlo Thompson, Guillaume Desmet | costume design Dorine Demuynck | stage manager Wim Van de Cappelle | photography Chris Van der Burght | production managers Katrien Van Gysegem & Valerie Desmet | direction assistant & tourmanager Steve De Schepper | trainee performing arts Lisaboa Houbrechts | trainee theatre engineering Ijf Boullet | thanks to Isnelle da Silveira, Filip De Boeck, Barbara Raes, Griet Callewaert, decoratelier NTGent, Mevrouw S.P., Juffrouw A.C., Fondation Camargo (Cassis, France), Sylvain Cambre-ling & Connexion vzw | special thanks to L. and her family for their exceptional candour, their deep trust and the unique support to this special project. | in dialogue with dr. Marc Cosyns | production les ballets C de la B, Festival de Marseille & Berliner Festspiele | coproduction Opéra de Lille (FR), Théâtre National de Chaillot Paris (FR), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU), Onassis Cultural Centre Athens (GR), TorinoDanza (IT), Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (DE), Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT), L’Arsenal Metz (FR), Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain – Bayonne (FR), La Ville de Marseille-Opéra (FR) & Aperto Festival / Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia (IT) | distribution Frans Brood Productions | with the support of the Flemish authorities, City of Ghent, Province East Flanders, North Sea Port and the Belgian Taxshelter
Jury
That is real magic, not just theatre.
—Jury report
Pers
What Requiem pour L. chiefly does – at both an artistic and an emotional level – is to dissolve opposition. Song is not opposed to dance, Western is not opposed to non-Western, and sorrow is not opposed to joy.
—Etcetera