Frans Poelstra, son dramaturge et Bach

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Frans Poelstra

Frans Poelstra, son dramaturge et Bach © Christophe Raynaud de Lage / Festival d'Avignon

Presentation

“Everything this play recounts is potentially true”, Frans Poelstra admits with a smile. According to what Robert Steijn (the playwright) says, Frans Poelstra (the interpreter) supposedly discovered dance with Bach. Working as a policeman, marked by the Goldberg Variations, he supposedly followed his intuition and left Amsterdam to improvise, for a summer, in the streets bordering the Popes' Palace in Avignon. There, as everyone knows, a career can start and, in fact, his career started there. With self-mockery, the pair will set forth, point by point, the protocol of creation without avoiding its contradictions.

Distribution

conception et réalisation; Frans Poelstra, Robert Steijn et Johann Sebastian Bach
lumières: Victor Duran
costumes: Mat Voorter

Production

production: movingarts
avec le soutien: de ImPulsTanz (Vienne) et Fonds amateurkunst podiumkunsten (Pays-Bas)

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