Alain Platel

Alain Platel (born April 9, 1959 in Gent , Belgium ) is a Belgian choreographer and theater director .

Life

Platel began studying performing arts at the age of eleven in Ghent at Marcel Hoste's drama school . He later attended a ballet school. Since 1980, he has created his own choreographies to mix the elements of dance, theater, music and circus. He involves both professional artists and amateurs in his productions.

In 1984, Platel founded his own dance company Les Ballets C de la B (Les Ballets Contemporains de la Belgique), which is dedicated to contemporary dance and has now (2011) an international reputation. In 2003 Platel withdrew from his company and let them create their own pieces. During this time he learned sign language as an additional form of expression . Since 2006 he has been developing new pieces with Les Ballets C de la B. In 2009 the company moved into a new building in Ghent.

Platel worked as an "orthopedic pedagogue " - a Dutch form of special educator who deals with the treatment of people with mental and / or physical impairments and those who are in a difficult learning or educational situation - in a hospital for disabled children in Armentières in the Nord department in France.

Choreographies (selection)

• 1984: Stabat Mater .
• 1988: Emma .
• 1995: Moeder en kind with Arne Sierens .
• 1996: Bernadetje with Arne Sierens.
• 1996: La tristeza complize ( Sharing the sadness ).
• 1997: Iets op Bach ( Little things about Bach ).
• 1999: Allemaal indiaan ( everyone is an Indian ) with Arne Sierens.
• 2003: Wolf , performed at the 41st Theatertreffen 2004 in Berlin (see also Berliner Theatertreffen 2000 to 2009 ).
• 2006: Vsprs , music by Fabrizio Cassol .
• 2007: Nine Finger , together with Fumiyo Ikeda and Benjamin Verdonck .
• 2008: Pitié .
• 2010: Out of Context , renamed after the death of Pina Bausch in: Out of Context - For Pina .
• 2010: Gardenia , Festival d'Avignon , together with Frank Van Laecke , who also directed. Later also: Kammerspiele Munich and Schauspielhaus Cologne .
• Vespers of Mary by Claudio Monteverdi .
• 2014: Tauberbach .
• 2014: Coup Fatal (director), world premiere at the Wiener Festwochen , with Serge Kakudji / Fabrizio Cassol / Rodriguez Vangama, based on arias by Georg Friedrich Händel and Christoph Willibald Gluck .
• 2016: Don't sleep (Mahler project), Ruhr Triennale 2016, Premiere: September 1, 2016, Jahrhunderthalle Bochum .

Filmography

Collaboration on documentaries

• 2001: Because I Sing Director: Sophie Fiennes
• 2005: Ramallah ! Ramallah! Ramallah! Director: Sophie Fiennes
• 2006: Les Ballets de ci de là
• 2007: VSPRS Show and Tell , directed by Sophie Fiennes; on behalf of WDR and arte

Theater films by Peter Schönhofer

• 2001: Theatrical recording of Tous des indiens
• 2004: Theater adaptation Wolf

Documentary by Jörg Jeshel and Brigitte Kramer

• 2009: Passion - Kinshasa terminus

Honors

In 2001 Platel received the European Theater Prize for New Realities . In 2004 he was awarded the 3sat Prize . Since 2006 he has been a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin . In 2012 he was awarded the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Artois University in Arras .

literature

• Le ballet C de la B (interviews). Lanoo, Tielt 2006, ISBN 90-209-6443-7 .
• Alain Platel: Conversations with Renate Klett . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-89581-175-3 .
• Silvia Stammen: Beyond good and beautiful. Alain Platel's dance evening "Tauberbach" at the Münchner Kammerspiele overrides all norms. In: Theater heute , volume 55, issue 3, 2014, ISSN  0040-5507 , pp. 12-13.

Web links

• Website of the ballet