Jérôme Bel
Jérôme Bel is identified as a choreographer, even if some of his shows are closer to experimental theatre than dance properly speaking. This is the case for the Cour d'honneur project that he is presenting this summer in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des Papes. Jérôme Bel lives in Paris and works internationally. In questioning theatre and choreographic codes, he has worked at producing a critique of performance and at exploring the margins of these artistic fields. Each play he creates is one more step in his thinking on the powers and limits of stage performance. What obsesses him above all is how the Western theatre system works, what this system brings into play artistically and politically. For the last few years, his theatre has taken a documentary turn. He has staged the memory of dancers like Véronique Doisneau, ballerina of the Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris, or Pichet Klunchun, interpreter of Khôn, the traditional Thai theatre. Recently, he co-signed a show with the Belgian choreographer Teresa De Keersmaeker based on Gustav Mahler's The Song of the Earth. His latest play, presented at the Festival d'Avignon in 2012, is a collaboration with the mentally disabled actors of the Theater Hora in Zurich. It was at Boris Charmatz's invitation that he came to the Festival d'Avignon for the first time in 2011, where he presented an exhibition on his work titled Jérôme Bel in 3 sec. 30 sec. 3 min. 30 min. 3 hr., proposed by the Musée de la danse à l'École d'Art.
April 2013.