Out of Context - for Pina

Alain Platel

Show
A dancer in underwear, back arched, holding microphones behind him. He stands in front of people draped in red.
11月 17 - 18, 2023 MC93
Choreographer
Alain Platel
時間
90 min

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting the MC93 for the presentation of Out of Context by Alain Platel.

In this powerful, poetic tribute to Pina Bausch, Alain Platel returns to the essentials: dance and bodies. He depicts a human community and deconstructs the unconscious and otherness in all of us.

Out of Context is the only performance that laGeste (les ballets C de la B and kabinet k) is reprising on an exceptional basis. It is performed by the dancers who premiered it in 2012 and presented it in 2019 at MC93.

Photo: © Chris Van der Burght

- Trailer of Out ot Context - for Pina by Alain Platel

Three dancers in underwear, standing with arms facing backwards
01 / 07 — Out of Context by Alain Platel © Chris Van der Burght
Leaping dancer in Out of Context by Alain Platel
02 / 07 — Out of Context by Alain Platel © Chris Van der Burght
Four standing dancers, three clad in red blankets
03 / 07 — Out of Context by Alain Platel © Chris Van der Burght
A dancer with a red blanket around his waist and another dancer sitting acrobatically in front of him
04 / 07 — Out of Context by Alain Platel © Chris Van der Burght
Two entangled dancers in Out of Context by Alain Platel
05 / 07 — Out of Context by Alain Platel © Chris Van der Burght
Several dancers in underwear in Out of Context by Alain Platel
06 / 07 — Out of Context by Alain Platel © Chris Van der Burght
Several dancers in underwear in Out of Context by Alain Platel
07 / 07 — Out of Context by Alain Platel © Chris Van der Burght

About the artist

Alain Platel的肖像

Alain Platel

Alain Platel受訓成為一名治療教育專家,於1984年在比利時根特創立了舞蹈團體les ballets C de la B。他是自學成才的藝術家,從一開始就選擇將多種流派混合,匯集來自不同國家和不同藝術世界的表演者。他堅定的人道主義風格,很快為他贏得了國際讚譽。

2003年,一部以莫扎特為藍本的劇目《Wolf》,展現令人驚嘆的生命力,以非比尋常的青春活力與奢華元素令觀眾深深著迷。Alain Platel隨後選擇將自己的作品定位為更加內省、激烈甚至具有苦行主義意味的舞蹈。這啟發出許多新作品,如2006年以蒙特威爾第作品為藍本的《vsprs》、2007年的《Nine Finger》和2008年的《pitié!》,並選用巴哈的曲目配樂。2010年,他創作了《Out of Context - for Pina》和《Gardenia》,其中一場變裝歌舞表演的結尾讓我們一睹一群令人難忘的老藝術家的私生活。在他的作品中,例如2014年首演的《tauberbach》和與Fabrizio Cassol《Coup Fatal》,政治內涵來自於舞台上所展現的生活樂趣(joie de vivre)和活力,呈現各種生活方式或在無尊嚴下苟延殘喘的情況。也正是這種「對生命的渴望」,推動著《Nicht schlafen》(2016年)的舞者去尋找轉型的可能性,探索瞬息萬變的世界中的不安感和末日預感。Platel在2018年與Fabrizio Cassol合作創作《Requiem pour L》,藉此歌頌生命。

照片:© Chris Van der Burght