Jan Martens / Opera Ballet Vlaanderen & GRIP
2022
Jan Martens is combining his role of co-artistic director at GRIP with that of associate artist at Opera Ballet Vlaanderen for several seasons. In FUTUR PROCHE, together with fifteen dancers from OBV, two children, and harpsichordist Goska Isphording, he built a performance about the imminent future. After two previous successful productions, Martens again finds inspiration in a surprising, contemporary repertoire for the centuries-old harpsichord. The performance had its world premiere on July 19, 2022 at the Cour d’honneur of the prestigious Festival d’Avignon.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Jan Martens
DANCE: Zoë Ashe-Browne, Viktor Banka, Tiemen Bormans, Claudio Cangialosi, Morgana Cappellari, Brent Daneels, Matt Foley, Misako Kato, Nicola Leahey, Ester Pérez, Taichi Sakai, Niharika Senapati, Paul Vickers, James Vu Anh Pham, Rune Verbilt, Kirsten Wicklund and the children (alternating): Merel Amandt, Gaiane Caforio, Caroline Gratkowksi, Elodie Grunewad
MUSIC COMPOSITION: Dan Locklair, Erki Salmenhaara, Pēteris Vasks, Anna Sigríður Þorvaldsdóttir, Janco Verduin, Graciane Finzi, Aleksandra Gryka
HARPSICHORD: Goska Isphording
SCENOGRAPHY: Joris van Oosterwijk
LIGHTING DESIGN: Elke Verachtert
COSTUME DESIGN: Joris van Oosterwijk, Jan Martens, Els Mommaerts
VIDEO: Stijn Pauwels
SOUND: Brecht Beuselinck
DRAMATURGY: Tom Swaak
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR: Tara Jade Samaya
ARTISTIC ADVICE: Rudi Meulemans, Marc Vanrunxt, Carolina Maciel de França
PRODUCTION: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
COPRODUCTION: Festival d'Avignon, DE SINGEL
IN COLLABORATION WITH: GRIP
WITH THE SUPPORT OF: François Ryelandt for the harpsichord
WITH THE FINANCIAL SUPPORT OF: the Flemish Government
