About

20 performers, 19 songs and one DJ. By using a simple action/reaction mechanism between strokes and moving bodies, Jérôme Bel has devised a performance that brings together affection and concept, collective subconscious, and display of uniqueness. The show must go on is originally a Queen’s song and also the name of one of choreographer Jérôme Bel's most prolific works. The simplicity of its effects endows it with the value of a conceptual manifesto. The performance, however, with its double layer of references, which almost conceals its meaning, is also a statement: "the show must go on". It becomes an affirmation of the persistence of the moving bodies and dance. The show is made of songs, bodies, and declarations. It resembles a kind of choreographic karaoke in which the performers do exactly what they are told in the lyrics of the songs, thus altering the relationship between what we see and what we hear, what we expect and what we get, what we feel and what we perceive. Since its first performance in 2001, The show must go on has never stopped going on(wards).

When

Friday, 4 June 2021 19:30-21:00

Thursday, 3 June 2021 19:30-21:00