any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones 2021
Jan Martens
& GRIP & Dance On Ensemble
‘Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars and molecules all come in communities. The singular cannot really exist.’ – Paula Gunn Allen in Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook
With any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones, Jan Martens is for the first time fully turning his attention to the main stage. A production about the power that lies in being out of step, performed by a seventeen-strong, atypical corps de ballet made up of unique personalities.
The heterogeneous group of dancers spans several generations, the youngest being 18 and the eldest 71, with significant differences between them in terms of track record and technical background. In any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones, they seek their own voice within the dance and beyond, looking for an idiom that fits them like a glove. One by one they claim their place on stage, without cutting off the others for all that. A horizontal exercise in giving each other the necessary space, while being careful not to steal the limelight.
any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones is a rich performance that does not hesitate to seek out the ecstatic. In times of extreme polarization, this group sets social dogmas aside to recognize and embrace a range of distinct identities. Being uninhibitedly themselves – in both life and art – with the stage as their ideological testing ground. They are supported by a soundtrack that consists of protest songs from different ages – from Henryk Górecki via Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln to Kae Tempest.
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Selected for Het TheaterFestival 2022
credits
CHOREOGRAPHY: Jan Martens
DANCE: 17 out of these dancers: Abigail Aleksander, Pierre Bastin, Georgia Boddez, Ty Boomershine, Truus Bronkhorst, Camilla Bundel, Jim Buskens, Baptiste Cazaux, Zoë Chungong, Piet Defrancq, Naomi Gibson, Simon Lelievre, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Solal Mariotte, Cherish Menzo, Steven Michel, Gesine Moog, Dan Mussett, Wolf Overmeire, Tim Persent, Courtney May Robertson, Laura Vanborm, Zora Westbroek, Loeka Willems, Lia Witjes-Poole, Maisie Woodford, Paolo Yao
ARTISTIC ASSISTANCE: Anne-Lise Brevers
LIGHTING DESIGN: Jan Fedinger
ASSISTANCE LIGHTING DESIGN: Vito Walter
COSTUME DESIGN: Cédric Charlier
ASSISTANCE COSTUME DESIGN: Alexandra Sebbag and Thibault Kuhn
ADVICE: Marc Vanrunxt, Renée Copraij, Rudi Meulemans and Siska Baeck
TEXT: fragment SPRING by Ali Smith. Copyright © 2019, Ali Smith, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited
MUSIC: “Concerto pour Clavecin et Cordes Op 40” Réf Im: 108884 Musique de Henryk Mikolaj Górecki © PWM Editions représenté par Alphonse Leduc Editions Musicales,
“People’s Faces” written by Kae Tempest and Dan Carey © Published and Administered by Domino Publishing Company Limited (50%) and MANATA LTD Administrated by Warner/Chappell Music Belgium N.V. (50%),
“Triptych: Prayer/Protest/Peace” written by Maxwell Roach © Published by Milma Publishing Company Administered by Kobalt Music Publishing Limited.
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Michel Spang
TOURING TECHNICIANS: Michel Spang and Valentijn Weyn/Vincent Philippart
PHOTOGRAPHY: Phile Deprez
GRAPHIC DESIGN: Luis Xertu
TEASERS AND TRAILERS: Stanislav Dobak and Jan Fedinger
PRODUCTION: GRIP
IN COLLABORATION WITH: Dance On Ensemble
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION: A Propic / Line Rousseau, Marion Gauvent and Lara van Lookeren
COPRODUCTION: DE SINGEL (Antwerp, BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Julidans (Amsterdam, NL), Festival d'Avignon (FR), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France (FR), Norrlandsoperan (Umeå, SE), La Bâtie - Festival de Genève & l’ADC - Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Genève (CH), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf, DE), Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes-Pyrénéés (Tarbes, FR), La Danse en grande forme - Projet de l’A-CDCN et de l’ACCN : Cndc - Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture - CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux - La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur - CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Collectif Fair-e / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, Le Gymnase | CDCN Roubaix | Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg et La Place de La Danse - CDCN Toulouse Occitanie and Perpodium (BE)
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: De Grote Post (Ostend, BE), CCNO - Centre Chorégraphique National d'Orléans in collaboration with la Scène nationale d'Orléans, Charleroi danse - Centre chorégraphique de Wallonie-Bruxelles (BE) and December Dance (Concertgebouw and CC Brugge) (BE)
WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF: the Flemish Government, the city of Antwerp, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Cronos Invest
THANKS TO: Wannes Labath, de! Kunsthumaniora, Nadine Scheuer, Mr. Jean Chabert (STANLEY/STELLA)
dates
23.04.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
preview - cancelled
24.04.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
premiere - cancelled
25.04.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
cancelled
26.04.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
cancelled
28.04.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
cancelled
29.04.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
cancelled
30.04.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
cancelled
01.05.2020
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
cancelled
07.05.2020
vlaamse opera ism campo & vooruit
GHENT (BE)
cancelled
29.05.2020
charleroi danse
CHARLEROI (BE)
cancelled
27.06.2020
theater freiburg
FREIBURG (DE)
cancelled
30.06.2020
stadsschouwburg amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (NL)
(julidans)
cancelled
01.07.2020
stadsschouwburg amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (NL)
cancelled
14.07.2020
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
cancelled - FR premiere
15.07.2020
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
cancelled
16.07.2020
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
cancelled
18.07.2020
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
cancelled
19.07.2020
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
cancelled
20.07.2020
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
cancelled
21.07.2020
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
cancelled
21.08.2020
dansens hus
OSLO (NO)
cancelled
22.08.2020
dansens hus
OSLO (NO)
cancelled
29.08.2020
TBC
GENEVA (CH)
(la bâtie)
cancelled
30.08.2020
TBC
GENEVA (CH)
(la bâtie)
cancelled
11.09.2020
tanzhaus nrw
DUSSELDORF (DE)
cancelled
12.09.2020
tanzhaus nrw
DUSSELDORF (DE)
cancelled
19.09.2020
theater rotterdam
ROTTERDAM (NL)
cancelled
23.09.2020
concertgebouw
BRUGES (BE)
cancelled
17.10.2020
carré-colonnes
BORDEAUX (FR)
(fab – festival international des arts de bordeaux)
cancelled
31.10.2020
stadsschouwburg utrecht
UTRECHT (NL)
(spring)
cancelled
02.12.2020
concertgebouw
BRUGES (BE)
(december dance)
cancelled
03.12.2020
concertgebouw
BRUGES (BE)
(december dance)
cancelled
04.12.2020
concertgebouw
BRUGES (BE)
(december dance)
cancelled
04.02.2021
théâtre de la cité
TOULOUSE (FR)
(festival ici&là)
cancelled - icw la place de la danse - cdcn toulouse occitanie
05.02.2021
théâtre de la cité
TOULOUSE (FR)
(festival ici&là)
cancelled - icw la place de la danse - cdcn toulouse occitanie
11.02.2021
scène nationale d’orléans
ORLÉANS (FR)
cancelled - icw ccn d'orléans & théâtre d'orléans
23.03.2021
le parvis scène nationale tarbes-pyrénées
TARBES (FR)
cancelled
07.04.2021
la condition publique
ROUBAIX (FR)
(le grand bain)
cancelled - icw la rose des vents scène nationale lille métropole, villeneuve d’ascq & le gymnase cdcn roubaix hauts-de-france - in the frame of le grand bain
08.04.2021
la condition publique
ROUBAIX (FR)
(le grand bain)
cancelled - icw la rose des vents scène nationale lille métropole, villeneuve d’ascq & le gymnase cdcn roubaix hauts-de-france - in the frame of le grand bain
16.04.2021
tanzhaus nrw
DUSSELDORF (DE)
cancelled
17.04.2021
tanzhaus nrw
DUSSELDORF (DE)
cancelled
24.04.2021
podium 19
belgian television ()
01.05.2021
ita – internationaal theater amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (NL)
(julidans)
postponed
02.05.2021
ita – internationaal theater amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (NL)
(julidans)
postponed
06.05.2021
gasteig / carl-orff-saal
MUNICH (DE)
(dance festival für zeitgenössischen tanz)
live stream from concertgebouw brugge
07.05.2021
gasteig / carl-orff-saal
MUNICH (DE)
(dance festival für zeitgenössischen tanz)
video stream (filmed at concertgebouw brugge on may 6th)
18.07.2021
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
world premiere
19.07.2021
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
20.07.2021
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
22.07.2021
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
23.07.2021
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
24.07.2021
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
25.07.2021
cour du lycée saint-joseph
AVIGNON (FR)
(festival d’avignon)
28.08.2021
ita – internationaal theater amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (NL)
(julidans)
NL premiere
29.08.2021
ita – internationaal theater amsterdam
AMSTERDAM (NL)
(julidans)
06.09.2021
de studio
ANTWERP (BE)
(het theaterfestival)
10.09.2021
la bâtie
GENEVA (CH)
CH premiere
11.09.2021
la bâtie
GENEVA (CH)
(la bâtie)
12.09.2021
la bâtie
GENEVA (CH)
(la bâtie)
18.09.2021
teatro municipal do porto
PORTO (PT)
PT premiere
13.10.2021
cdcn toulouse – occitanie
TOULOUSE (FR)
14.10.2021
cdcn toulouse – occitanie
TOULOUSE (FR)
20.10.2021
charleroi danse / les écuries
CHARLEROI (BE)
(la biennale 2021 de charleroi danse)
BE premiere
22.10.2021
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
23.10.2021
de singel
ANTWERP (BE)
27.10.2021
de warande
TURNHOUT (BE)
28.10.2021
spring
UTRECHT (NL)
(spring)
16.11.2021
cndc angers
ANGERS (FR)
10.12.2021
vlaamse opera ism campo & vooruit
GHENT (BE)
postponed
10.12.2021
concertgebouw
BRUGES (BE)
cancelled
11.12.2021
concertgebouw
BRUGES (BE)
(december dance)
cancelled
18.01.2022
30cc ism stuk
LEUVEN (BE)
cancelled - replaced with ELISABETH GETS HER WAY
19.01.2022
30cc ism stuk
LEUVEN (BE)
cancelled - replaced with ELISABETH GETS HER WAY
28.01.2022
dansens hus
OSLO (NO)
cancelled - replaced with ELISABETH GETS HER WAY
29.01.2022
dansens hus
OSLO (NO)
cancelled - replaced with ELISABETH GETS HER WAY
01.02.2022
dansens hus
STOCKHOLM (SE)
cancelled - replaced with ELISABETH GETS HER WAY
02.02.2022
dansens hus
STOCKHOLM (SE)
cancelled - replaced with ELISABETH GETS HER WAY
05.02.2022
norrlandsoperan
UMEÅ (SE)
cancelled - replaced with ELISABETH GETS HER WAY
04.03.2022
tanzhaus nrw
DUSSELDORF (DE)
05.03.2022
tanzhaus nrw
DUSSELDORF (DE)
10.03.2022
le maillon
STRASBOURG (FR)
(org. pôle sud & le maillon)
11.03.2022
le maillon
STRASBOURG (FR)
(org. pôle sud & le maillon)
19.03.2022
mercat de les flors
BARCELONA (ES)
ES premiere
20.03.2022
mercat de les flors
BARCELONA (ES)
05.04.2022
la scène nationale d’orléans
ORLÉANS (FR)
08.04.2022
le parvis scène nationale tarbes-pyrénées
TARBES (FR)
24.05.2022
sadler’s wells
LONDON (UK)
UK premiere
25.05.2022
sadler’s wells
LONDON (UK)
27.05.2022
abbey theatre
DUBLIN (IE)
(dublin dance festival)
IE premiere
28.05.2022
abbey theatre
DUBLIN (IE)
(dublin dance festival)
10.06.2022
theater rotterdam
ROTTERDAM (NL)
08.09.2022
ntgent
GHENT (BE)
(het theaterfestival)
09.09.2022
ntgent
GHENT (BE)
(het theaterfestival)
25.09.2022
bitef
BELGRADE (SR)
(bitef festival)
28.09.2022
romaeuropa festival
ROME (IT)
29.09.2022
romaeuropa festival
ROME (IT)
06.10.2022
la comédie de clermont-ferrand scène nationale
CLERMONT-FERRAND (FR)
07.10.2022
la comédie de clermont-ferrand scène nationale
CLERMONT-FERRAND (FR)
11.10.2022
maison de la danse
LYON (FR)
12.10.2022
maison de la danse
LYON (FR)
14.10.2022
tnba – théâtre national de bordeaux en aquitaine & la manufacture
BORDEAUX (FR)
15.10.2022
tnba – théâtre national de bordeaux en aquitaine & la manufacture
BORDEAUX (FR)
20.10.2022
nowy teatr
WARSAW (PL)
21.10.2022
nowy teatr
WARSAW (PL)
08.11.2022
euro-scene leipzig / schaubühne lindenfels
LEIPZIG (DE)
12.11.2022
staatstheater darmstadt
DARMSTADT (DE)
10.12.2022
concertgebouw
BRUGES (BE)
(december dance)
03.02.2023
teatro central
SEVILLA (ES)
04.02.2023
teatro central
SEVILLA (ES)
07.02.2023
stuk
LEUVEN (BE)
08.02.2023
stuk
LEUVEN (BE)
11.02.2023
théâtre de liège
LIÈGE (BE)
10.03.2023
maison de la culture
AMIENS (FR)
13.03.2023
le bateau feu
DUNKIRK (FR)
16.03.2023
comédie de caen
CAEN (FR)
17.03.2023
comédie de caen
CAEN (FR)
21.03.2023
le phénix, scène nationale
VALENCIENNES (FR)
(le grand bain)
28.03.2023
le lieu unique
NANTES (FR)
cancelled
29.03.2023
le lieu unique
NANTES (FR)
cancelled
01.04.2023
scène nationale d’albi
ALBI (FR)
04.04.2023
équinoxe – scène nationale de châteauroux
CHÂTEAUROUX (FR)
07.04.2023
tap – théâtre auditorium de poitiers
POITIERS (FR)
14.04.2023
dansens hus
OSLO (NO)
15.04.2023
dansens hus
OSLO (NO)
06.05.2023
cankarjev dom
LJUBLJANA (SL)
11.05.2023
théâtre de la ville @ la villette
PARIS (FR)
12.05.2023
théâtre de la ville @ la villette
PARIS (FR)
13.05.2023
théâtre de la ville @ la villette
PARIS (FR)
16.05.2023
les gémeaux
SCEAUX (FR)
17.05.2023
les gémeaux
SCEAUX (FR)
19.06.2023
tanec praha international dance festival
PRAGUE (CZ)
14.07.2023
peiraios 260
ATHENS (GR)
Athens & Epidaurus Festival
15.07.2023
peiraios 260
ATHENS (GR)
Athens & Epidaurus Festival
14.09.2023
dance house – tanssin talo
HELSINKI (FI)
15.09.2023
dance house – tanssin talo
HELSINKI (FI)
22.09.2023
culturgest
LISBON (PT)
23.09.2023
culturgest
LISBON (PT)
20.10.2023
festspielhaus hellerau
DRESDEN (DE)
21.10.2023
festspielhaus hellerau
DRESDEN (DE)
03.11.2023
national theater
TAIPEI (TW)
04.11.2023
national theater
TAIPEI (TW)
05.11.2023
national theater
TAIPEI (TW)
06.12.2023
norrlandsoperan
UMEÅ (SE)
10.05.2024
teatro español
MADRID (ES)
venue: naves del español en matadero
11.05.2024
teatro español
MADRID (ES)
venue: naves del español en matadero
12.05.2024
teatro español
MADRID (ES)
venue: naves del español en matadero
22.05.2024
la coursive
LA ROCHELLE (FR)
23.05.2024
la coursive
LA ROCHELLE (FR)
28.05.2024
le quartz scène nationale
BREST (FR)
29.05.2024
le quartz scène nationale
BREST (FR)
04.06.2024
cultuurcentrum hasselt
HASSELT (BE)
23.10.2024
27.11.2024
bonlieu
ANNECY (FR)
28.11.2024
bonlieu
ANNECY (FR)
05.12.2024
cité musicale metz – arsenal
METZ (FR)
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