Festival Bo:m 2010

Jérôme Bel
Lutz Förster

��In 2008, I was invited by Pina Bausch to come and perform Veronique Doisneau in her festival in Wuppertal. This piece was a solo for Paris Opera Ballet dancer Veronique Doisneau. In this 2004 production, Veronique Doisneau was retrospectively describing her work as a <corps de ballet> dancer in the Paris Opéra, since she was going to retire that same year at age 42.

I answered Pina Bausch that unfortunately Veronique Doisneau was now retired and that she couldn��t perform anymore. But I offered to develop the same kind of work with one of her dancers. Pina Bausch said that she was interested by the project.

Some time later, I told Bettina Masuch, German producer and dramaturg, about this project and she said that she knew Lutz Förster personally, one of the most devoted members of the Tanztheater Wuppertal, and that she could put us in contact.

I knew Lutz Förster because I had seen him perform many times in Pina Bausch��s early works. After Lutz Förster had watched the Veronique Doisneau film, we both agreed to try to make a solo titled Lutz Förster in which he would talk about his own career as a dancer.��

from Jérôme Bel, January 2009, Xalapa, Mexico

4.8 Thu 8pm
4.9 Fri 8pm

Venue :
Namsan Arts Center

Running Time :
60min

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