Olga de Soto
Débords. Réflexions sur la Table Verte
Un projet Tanzfonds Erbe
© Photo de répétition de La Table verte, 1964 De gauche à droite : Jean Cébron, Kurt Jooss, Pina Bausch et Erika Fabry ©
© Dancer looking at masks © Fritz Henle ©
Débords. Réflexions sur La Table Verte.
Un projet Tanzfonds Erbe
A work of analysis whose starting point is the Performance La Table Verte by Kurt Jooss.
Concept, choreography, documentation, camera, sound, video, Olga de Soto
Video, Julien Contreau et Olga de Soto
Lighting Design, Philippe Gladieux
Scenography, Shizuka Hariu / SHSH
Video Technician, Bram Moriau
Sound Designer, Mathieu Farnarier
Costumes, Dorothée Catry
Technical Coordination, Daniel Huard
Construction, Yann Stroobant
Translations, Olga de Soto, Christiane Gleis, Diane Lara, Samuel Toledo, Ecaterina Vidick
Subtitles, Tongues Untied
Assistant for Documentation researches, karin Verbruggen
Musique, Frederic Rzewski, "The People united will never be defeated" Variation nr. 1 / John Cage : Sonate n° 1 for piano and Sonate n° 5 for piano
With testimonies (appearing order) of Marina Grut, Ann Hutchinson Guest, Christian Holder, Joan Turner Jara, Nora Salvo, Jeanne Brabants, Michèle Nadal, Hanns Stein, Andras Uthoff, Edith del Campo, Philip Lansdale, Juan Allende-Blin, Toer van Schayk, Fernando García, Bruno Jacquin, Jacqueline Challet-Haas, Gerd Zacher, Jeanette Vondersaar, Françoise Dupuy
With Fabian Barba, Alessandro Bernardeschi, Edith Christoph, Hanna Hedman, Mauro Paccagnella, Enora Rivière
Production Niels & Caravan Production
Coproduction Joint Adventures/Tanzwerkstatt Europa (Munich) ; Les Halles (Bruxelles) ; Culturgest (Lisbonne) ; Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (CCNM) within the framework of Jardin d’Europe, within the support of programme Culture de l’Union Européenne ; Réseau Open Latitudes (Les Halles-Bruxelles, Latitudes Contemporaines-Lille, Le Manège de Mons /Maison Folie-Mons, Cialo Umysl Foundation-Varsovie, Teatro delle Moire-Milan, Sin Arts and Culture Centre-Budapest, Le phénix, scène nationale de Valenciennes, l’Arsenic-Lausanne), with the support of the programme Culture de l’Union Européenne ; Tanzquartier Wien ; Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
Corealisation Les Spectacles vivants – Centre Pompidou (Paris) ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support TANZFONDS ERBE – An initiative of German Cultural Federal Foundation ; The French Community Wallonie-Bruxelles and files Jooss (Cologne/ Amsterdam), of Deutschen Tanzarchives Köln with the help of Centre de développement chorégraphique d’Uzès
With the support of WBI (Wallonie-Bruxelles International)
The project benefited from research grants of Ministère français de la Culture et de la Communication as well as the French Community Wallonie-Bruxelles, for the realisation documentary research task
Olga de Soto is funded by French Community Wallonie-Bruxelles. She is in artistic residence at the Halles and in administrative residence at la Raffinerie - Charleroi/Danses, Centre Chorégraphique of the Wallonie-Brussels Federation.
La Table Verte is a ballet by Kurt Jooss, which was created in 1932, during the rise of Nazism in Germany. Olga de Soto explores the history of the piece to examine its political relevance today. Her project draws upon the testimonies of spectators who have seen this ballet at different moments in history and in different countries, and those of former performers of the piece, at various times and in various countries.
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