Dance

Jérôme Bel

Name: Jérôme Bel - Xiao Ke
Start: 2021-01-28
End: 2021-01-31

Xiao Ke

28 - 31 Jan 2021

Centre Pompidou, Paris

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In response to a commission by the Live Shows department of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Centre Pompidou x West Bund Museum in Shanghai, Jérôme Bel collaborated with Xiao Ke, a 41 year-old dancer and choreographer from Yunan who is currently living in Shanghai.

"We started to work via tele-conference some weeks ago because, for ecological reasons, neither I nor my company take planes any longer. In a certain sense, that was just as well, because Xiao was in lock-down at home. Now the situation is reversed, she can go out but I can't. I sent her all the videos of my shows, asking her to tell me what interested her and suggesting that she use them however she wished. She made some choices from the body of my work and the result will be a solo performance recounting the evolution of dance and culture in China over the last forty years.
I was so interested in the result that I thought it was essential to make the trip and stage the show in France. We are thus working on another version of the show, which I present on stage, with Xiao Ke in video-conference from Shanghai. A very experimental show." Jérôme Bel, 15 April 2020

Création de la version chinoise à Shanghai en novembre 2020 et de la version française au Centre Pompidou à Paris en janvier 2021 dans le cadre du festival Hors-Pistes.
Concept : Jérôme Bel
De et par Xiao Ke et Jérôme Bel
Direction technique : Zi Han
Coproduction : Les Spectacles vivants Centre Pompidou, Paris, Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum à Shanghai
Conseil artistique et direction exécutive : Rebecca Lasselin
R.B. Jérôme Bel reçoit le soutien de la Drac Île-de-France – ministère de la Culture, de l'Institut français – ministère des Affaires étrangères pour ses tournées à l'étranger et de l'Onda – Office national de diffusion artistique pour ses tournées en France.
La pièce sera ensuite représentée du 4 au 6 février 2021 à La Commune d’Aubervilliers dont Jérôme Bel est artiste associé.