In a dark stage space, four figures crawl and bend. The floor is covered with black glittering debris, a white viscous substance flows from above, sticking the figures and mixing with the debris on the floor.

Dance

Damien Jalet / Kohei Nawa

Planet [Wanderer]

Tickets:

44/36/24/14 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, [k]-Karte from 7 Euro)

Dates

[k]-Premiere

Thursday

12/7/23

8:00 PM

60 Min.

Tickets

Friday

12/8/23

8:00 PM

60 Min.

Tickets

Saturday

12/9/23

8:00 PM

60 Min.

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Dance critic Wiebke Hüster once called the French-Belgian choreographer Damien Jalet "the shooting star of contemporary dance", who creates "sculptural worlds of images" with his choreographies. Planet [Wanderer] is a visionary Gesamtkunstwerk that combines his aesthetic world with that of the Japanese visual artist Kohei Nawa.

In a dream-like choreography that seems to be chiselled into the black, glittering ground, they question the fragile relationship of human beings to the earth - and in doing so shift the boundaries between dance and visual art, sculptures in motion or sculptural dance.

In a dark stage space, a person kneels on the floor, which is full of black glittering debris. Her entire body, face and hair are covered in the black dust. She leans gently backwards.

In a dark stage space, a person kneels on the floor, leaning low backwards, with his back to the camera. The floor is full of black glittering debris. The person kneels in a small puddle of dark silvery liquid.

In a dark stage space, a person drops backwards with a crooked back on the floor. The floor is full of black glistening debris. The person is up to their knees in a small puddle of dark silvery liquid.

In a dark stage space, a person bends forward and drops headfirst onto the floor. The floor is full of black glittering debris. The person's feet are stuck in a small puddle of dark silvery liquid.

A person crouches on the floor and is doused by a white, viscous substance that splashes in all directions. The floor is covered with black glittering debris with which the liquid mixes.

In a dark stage space, completely covered with black glittering rubble, a heap of people piles up. Arms and legs are entangled and everyone is smeared with the black glittering material.

A dark floor is covered with black glittering rubble. A pair of feet, from which a white viscous substance drips, take a step in a small crater in the rubble, about 1 metre wide.

On a stage covered with glittering black rubble, two topless people dance on their knees, bending towards each other, one backwards, the other forwards. In the background, four blurred people dance upright.

In a dark stage space, six people stand with their backs to the camera, facing a bright light. They sink to their knees in black glittering rubble and all lean slightly backwards.

Two people dance on a stage whose floor is covered with grey mist. Both are close to the floor, partly kneeling or raising their arm.

Eight topless people stand lined up in front of each other in a dark room. They are dusted with glittery black material and all look to the side.

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Press photos Damien Jalet – Planet Wanderer

#Big Stage

With: Damien Jalet, Kohei Nawa

Choregraphy Damien Jalet Set designer Kohei Nawa Music Tim Hecker Light designer Yukiko Yoshimoto Costumes Sruli Recht Assistant choreographer Alexandra Hoàng Gilbert Sound design collaborator Xavier Jacquot External view Catalina Navarrete Hernandez With Shawn Ahern, Kim Amankwaa/Karima El Amrani, Aimilios Arapoglou, Francesco Ferrari, Vinson Fraley, Christina Guieb/Thi mai Nguyen, Astrid Sweeney, Ema Yuasa

Production 2021: Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse

Production 2023: Théâtre National de Bretagne

Coproduction: Charleroi danse, Sandwich Inc., Festspielhaus St Pölten, Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre, Rohm Theatre Kyoto, Opéra de Rouen Normandie, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, Theater Kampnagel Hamburg, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Nagelhus Schia Productions

With the support of Grand Marble MATSUSHIMA HOLDINGS CO., LTDThanks to Théo CascianiNominee of the FEDORA - VAN CLEEF & ARPELS Prize for Ballet 2020 Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Special thanks to Théo Casciani, Prabda Yoon, Fabienne Aucant, Didier Deschamps

Nominated for the FEDORA – VAN CLEEF & ARPELS prize for Ballet 2020

Supported by Claussen-Simon-Stiftung.

Damien Jalet / Kohei Nawa

Planet [Wanderer]

Dates

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