INFAMOUS OFFSPRING
A fictional dance/film/theatre piece inspired by Greek characters. About a PATCHWORK FAMILY whose parents are iconic musicians and the descendants are a group of notorious but sensitive dancers.
Run time tba
Genre dance
Language language no problem
Dutch opening night Wed November 11
INFAMOUS OFFSPRING
INFAMOUS OFFSPRING harks back to the stories of Greek mythology, family soaps and archetypal stories about the dysfunctional family around the gods. Primeval stories about parents and children. About power, seduction, aggression, humiliation, exclusion, manipulation, beauty, cunning, … Ancient stories that traveled through time through transmission create a recognizable hierarchy of contemporary parents versus their children.
The parents in INFAMOUS OFFSPRING are filmed characters interacting with their nine-headed offspring on stage.-|-
Warren Ellis, purebred musician, writer and composer will play the role of the father and provide music. Israel Galvan, flamenco icon, plays the best friend of the family and communicates only through his rhythmic body expression. Fiona Benson, writer of furious, fierce, ecstatic poems. with an unfaltering determination, dark imagination and self-inspection. Reworking old myths to the contemporary realm, mixing solemnity with lyricism, for the interaction between film and stage and as an inspiration to the dancers and the musicians.
Credits
direction and script Wim Vandekeybus
music Warren Ellis
9 dancers on stage
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co-production Teatro Comunale Di Ferrara, Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, KVS
