C(H)OEURS (Alain Platel / les ballets C de la B - Teatro R

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C(H)ŒURS
Teatro Real Madrid / les ballets C de la B
Alain Platel

world première: 12 March 2012, Teatro Real (Madrid)

When opera director Gerard Mortier asked Alain Platel to create a Verdi project, the Ghent choreographer immediately got to work with the famous choral scenes from Verdi’s operas. Later on he added pieces of music from Richard Wagner’s works. For years, the tension be-tween the group and the individual have been the central theme in Platel’s performances which are popular, anarchistic, eclectic and committed. In C(H)ŒURS, so far his biggest pro-ject, he examines –together with his dancers and the Teatro Real choir – how ‘dangerously beautiful’ a group can be. What is the relation between the progressive 19th-century national-ism of Verdi and Wagner and the increasing current tendency of nations to cut themselves off ? Love, in opera so typically idealized, what role does it play in a crowd? Just like Jonathan Littell in his novel the Kindly Ones, Platel questions/investigates the responsibility of the individ-ual in the group. But the most important question remains how 21st century spectators deal with the irresistible emotionality coming from Wagner’s and Verdi’s choruses.

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Music: Wagner & Verdi

Concept and direction
Alain Platel

Conductor
Marc Piollet

Choirmaster
Andrés Máspero

Orchestra
La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra

Choir
Teatro Real (Coro Intermezzo)

Created and performed by
Bérengère Bodin, Daisy Ransom Phillips, Ido Batash, Juliana Neves, Lisi Estaras, Quan Bui Ngoc, Romain Guion, Romeu Runa, Rosalba Torres Guerrero, Serge Aimé Coulibaly

Kids
Emile Clarisse/Nino Dhont, Eliot Clarisse/Aster Buyssens/Tiger Platel

Direction assistance
Sara Vanderieck, Marcelo Buscaino

Dramaturgy
Hildegard De Vuyst

Musical dramaturgy
Jan Vandenhouwe

Additional music
Steven Prengels

Light design
Carlo Bourguignon

Sound design
Bart Uyttersprot

Set design
Alain Platel

Costume design
Dorine Demuynck

Costume assistance
Dorothée Catry

Surtitles
Bennert Van Cottem

Techical director
Jan Mergaert

Responsable set
Wim Van de Cappelle

Construction set
les ballets C de la B (Bennert Vancottem, Carlo Bourguigon, Wim Piqueur, Wim Van de Cap-pelle) atelier scenery NTGent (Erik Savat, Flup Beys, Freddy Schoonackers, Luc Goedertier, Lucien De Waele, Pierre Keulemans, Thierry Dhondt and apprentices Amara Touré, Dian Indriana, Elise Verstraete, Jill Ophalfens, Stavros Daskalopulos) Christophe Engels, Dimitri Clément

Photography
Chris Van der Burght

Apprentice video
Mathilde De Wit

Production management
Eline Vanfleteren

Production
Teatro Real Madrid

Coproduction
Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele

Executive producer
les ballets C de la B

With the cooperation of
Holland Festival (Amsterdam), Concertgebouw (Brugge)

With thanks to
The 107 volunteers who came to the rehearsals every Saturday between October 15th and February 12th as stand-ins for the Coro Intermezzo - Teatro Real, Isnelle da Silveira, Berlinde De Bruyckere, the Holland Festival team, Laure Adler-Veinstein

Teatro Real is supported by Communicad de Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura – Gobierno de Espana
les ballets C de la B is supported by The City of Ghent, Province of East-Flanders, The Flemish authorities

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