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Attention please! Eric de Kuyper, Les Intermittences du coeur Eric de Kuyper (director), the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, Polymnia and le Théâtre de la Ville de Paris (producers) have decided to postpone the performances of Les Intermittences du coeur to a later date (to be confirmed). Spectators who have already bought tickets for these performances will be refunded. Please contact the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts (02/226 45 88) Ro-theater/Guy Cassiers, Proust II Due to an accident of leading actrice Marlies Heuer, the performances of Proust II have been postponed until 11 and 12, 2003, at the Kaaitheaterstudios. The performances of Proust I (May 11 and 12 at the Kaaitheater) remain unchanged. Spectators who have already bought tickets for the cancelled performances can either change their tickets for June 10,11 or 12, or be refunded. Please contact the Kaaitheater (02/201 59 59) Ro-Theater/Guy Cassiers, Proust II > New dates: June 10, 11, 12 at 20:30 at the Kaaitheaterstudios. Attention please! The performance Endless Medication by Cie Buelens Paulina will not take place at the Théâtre 140, as we previously announced in our magazine, but at Plateau (NADINE vzw).
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André Delvaux, Chairman of our Board of Directors, left us on 4 October 2002. This KunstenFESTIVALdesArts 2003 is dedicated to him
The one true journey, the only way of being revitalised, would be not to make for new landscapes, but to have other eyes, to see the world with the eyes of another, of one hundred others, to see the one hundred worlds that each of them sees, that each of them is. Marcel Proust If there’s a dream on which the creation of a festival called the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts is founded, then this is it. The Festival is taking shape again in 2003, offering the public an opportunity over three weeks to discover some thirty projects by different artists, some thirty topical perspectives coming from thirteen countries and four continents. They are artists, first and foremost individuals, who like all of us are living in a time of a single truth and unresolved questions, a time that is both cynical and innocent… a time that doesn’t let them be. They make it possible for us to see it, not as we see it but rather how we could sense it if a virgin place existed, suspended and completely different from what we know, allowing us to clearly distinguish the joys, fears and madness we are assailed with. So they speak to us in a language that isn’t a common or clichéd one, but a language that gets through to us because it amazes us. This year, six projects are bringing the energy of Buenos Aires to Brussels. Argentina is supposed to be on the verge of ruin, yet in the area of the arts, literature and cinema, there is an exciting explosion of creativity. It became evident that the Festival wanted to invest in Buenos Aires to enable some of the projects to be created. And then there is Proust, this monument everyone has heard of without ever having read him. Thought by some to be frivolous, beneath his words however there is an unhealthy sensitiveness intensifying the immensity of a world in every detail. In the programme there are four remarkable stopovers in the pages of Remembrance of things past. Mayakovsky said Dostoyevsky had to be thrown into the sea, but here we have the two great Russians side by side, in the company of Molière. Some of the artists aren’t stopping at just one work in May. They’re journeying through the complete works, as well as the life and times of these writers from the past, transforming them into ‘performers’ in the here and now. Breaking with the market pressure behind a spectacle and getting out of the race to put on a production, some artists demand a different rhythm, enough time to allow their work to blossom, each new stage feeding on the previous one. They favour long-term projects, often crafting them in a collaborative way: an egalitarian encounter. Looking for a language that stimulates attention, ‘open-forms’ are inventing themselves today, adapted to the context of the subject matter. Often text, movement and singing blend into a visual performance, a theatrical installation, where the audience and what is seen are also displaced… Out of the thirty or so productions being offered this May, twenty are world premières. As an audience that is both curious and alert, this adventure of creation is your adventure too. Enjoy the Festival Frie Leysen & the team of the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts
With Guy Cassiers and Eric De Kuyper, the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts this year begins a journey through the epic work of Marcel Proust, A la recherche du temps perdu, a novel in seven volumes: Du côté de chez Swann (1913), A l’ombre des jeunes filles en fleur (1918), Le côté de Guermantes (1920-1921), Sodome et Gomorrhe (1921-1922), La Prisonnière (1923), Albertine disparue (1924) and Le temps retrouvé (1927). The presence of “Proust” productions within the KunstenFESTIVALdesArts accompany film screenings that Proust might have enjoyed during his time (Marcel va au cinéma at the Musée du Cinéma) and the “Proust Salons”… More than four projects originating from the same city and the same country have made their mark on the festival. These projects need to be given a title so why not ironically take the famous title of Mi Buenos Aires Querido, with which Carlos Gardel, exponent of the tango in its golden age, caused a stir, with a smile on his lips and a bruised heart… |
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Marcel
Proust
Mi
Buenos Aires Querido
Marcel
Proust
Mi
Buenos Aires Querido