BAL: Pride and Disappointment
Contemporary dance (2021)
Photo by Simone Mousset and Lewys Holt
What if disappointment was something humans were aiming for?
BAL: Pride and Disappointment, shown as work-in-progress in June 2021, is somewhere between an ice-dancing routine and a weird dream, filled with flying cows, awe-inspiring horses, inter-dimensional pop stars, and two people trying to do something great.
Disappointed with their human existence, Lewys Holt and Simone Mousset embark on a series of efforts towards a sense of something that once was, but is no more. In the midst of folkloric imagery, they are dealing with each other's positions and propositions, as they pursue a desire to transcend their human form through dance, imagination, and a new myth, designed specifically for the occasion.
CREDITS
- Concept and performance: Lewys Holt, Simone Mousset
- Sound: Lewys Holt, Alberto Ruiz Soler
- Costume and stage: Lewys Holt, Simone Mousset, Melanie Planchard
- Text: Lewys Holt, Simone Mousset
- Artistic support: Inari Hulkkonen, Eleanor Sikorski
- Initial research companion: Anne-Mareike Hess
- Voice-over: Anne Klein
- Lighting design: César Santos, Nicolas Tremblay
- Production manager: Nicolas Tremblay
- Producer: Vasanthi Argouin
- Production: Simone Mousset Projects
- Co-production: Escher Theater Luxembourg
- Logistical support: Abbaye de Neumünster
Index
PERFORMANCE
- SUR
- La Intérprete
- The Picnic
- Estudios Elementales
- Because I Can
- Is this is a dance?
- Written in the body
- Empire of a faun imaginary
- Unbroken
- BAL: Pride and Disappointment
- The Passion of Andrea 2
- Brouhaha
- Die or Run
- Aftermath
- Andante
- Figurines
- Two to tune
- Idiot-syncrasy
- Easy Rider
- The wishing well
- TAME GAME
- Begin to begin
- CITY