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The recording of dance, like the development of a choreography, is a problematical artistic commission. The first part of this proposition is an even riskier enterprise than the basic form from which it stemmed, since the public consciously chooses a particular group or performance - and then sits trapped in a darkened auditorium, whilst with a recorded report, the remote control is always within reach. In the first place, Macquestieau has chosen a company whose name, Leporello, contains a motto: once you start one of those books that keep unfolding, you keep reading. In the second place, the music (including Bellini and Von Suppe) guarantees listening pleasure. Furthermore, in the third place, these fragments are so accurately cut with intriguing atmospheric sound, like the cry of sea gulls or the clatter of a falling bell. In the fourth place, the director has found a tremendously strong guiding thread in Rimbaud's 'Le bateau ivre'. The story, if you like, of the performance is about travelling and drifting, a conventional representation of everybody's quest for the reason for existing, or the end of life. Fifthly, it must be pointed out that the company has been fruitfully inspired by honoured predecessors. The body language, costumes and the use of text fragments therefore call to mind Pina Bausch. Furthermore, this report is not limited to the stage; the camera breaks through the limitations of the footlights to the reality of a embankment on the beach from behind which a ferry boat (to the Elysian Fields in the West) looms up. In the seventh place, the pinnacles of twentieth century visual culture have been inserted, from the locomotive in Africa to Apollo on the moon. And finally, this long running theatre project is presented as a diary report covering no less than two and an half years so that the viewer remains intrigued as to the misty destination to which this journey is heading.
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Erik Daams
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Editing: Konrad Macquestieau, Philippe Boucq, Music: Johan van Weerst, Sonorisation and sound mixing: Benoit Bruwier, Choreography: Dirk Opstaele, Costumes: Afra Waldhör, With: The Ensemble Leporello, Afra Waldhör, Armand Charman, Johan van Weerst, Patrick Feys, Production: Limelight, Konrad Maquestieau
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