Wim Vandekeybus
Wim Vandekeybus (born June 30, 1963 in Herenthout ) is a Belgian choreographer , director and photographer . He has his own company Ultima Vez , based in Sint-Jans-Molenbeek ( Brussels ).
Together with Jan Fabre , Alain Platel and Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker , Wim Vandekeybus was responsible for the Flemish wave in contemporary dance in the 1980s. He made over thirty international dance and theater productions and almost as many films and video works.
breakthrough
After graduating from high school, he briefly studied psychology at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven , Belgium . After a workshop with Paul Peyskens, he came into contact with the theater. He attended various dance workshops and focused on film and photography.
After auditioning in 1985 for The Power of Theater Madness of Jan Fabre Wim Vandekeybus traveled for two years as one of the two naked kings of the piece through the world. In 1986 he moved to Madrid with a group of dancers for several months to work on his first show and to found his company Ultima Vez.
His first show, What the Body Does Not Remember , premiered in June 1987 at the Toneelschuur in Haarlem (The Netherlands). The music was composed by Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch . The performance won a Bessie Award in 1988 . A residency in 1989 at the Center National de Danse Contemporaine d'Angers led to Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles , which earned Vandekeybus a second Bessie Award.
Artistic handwriting
Although Vandekeybus pays particular attention to the physical material, the early shows of Ultima Vez already show the rudimentary outlines of a narrative, for example in the contrast between men and women.
Vandekeybus has always been fascinated by how people react in unfamiliar situations. He has often worked with other artists and performers from different backgrounds.
Vandekeybus is constantly looking for novelty and innovation in his work, but throughout his very different productions he has always remained true to the idiom of movement. The core elements of his oeuvre are tension and conflict, the dichotomy body / mind, risks and impulses as well as physicality, passion, intuition and instinct. However, each element is approached differently in his shows.
Performances
- 1987 What the Body Does Not Remember
- 1989 Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles
- 1990 The Weight of a Hand
- 1991 Always lied to the same thing
- 1993 Her Body Doesn't Fit Her Soul
- 1994 Mountains Made of Barking
- 1995 All sizes cover one another
- 1996 Bereft of a Blissful Union
- 1996 Exhaustion from Dreamed Love
- 1997 7 for a secret never to be told
- 1998 Body, body on the wall ...
- 1998 The Day of Heaven and Hell
- 1999 In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
- 2000 Inasmuch as Life is borrowed ...
- 2001 Scratching the Inner Fields
- 2002 's NIGHT
- 2002 Report aan de Bevolking
- 2002 it
- 2002 blush
- 2003 Sonic Boom
- 2004 Viva!
- 2004 Rent a kid, no bullshit!
- 2005 Puur
- 2006 Bêt noir
- 2007 mirror
- 2007 night damage
- 2007 MENSKE
- 2008 night of light
- 2009 Black Biist
- 2009 nieuwZwart
- 2010 Monkey Sandwich
- 2011 Radical Wrong
- 2011 IT 3.0
- 2001 Oedipus / bêt noir
- 2012 FEAR NOT
- 2012 booty looting
- 2013 Spiritual Unity
- 2014 Talk to the Demon
- 2015 Speak low if you speak love ...
- 2017 Mockumentary of a Contemporary Savior
Filmography
- 1990 Roseland
- 1992 La Mentira
- 1993 Elba and Federico
- 1994 Mountains Made of Barking
- 1996 Bereft of a Blissful Union
- 1996 Dust
- 1997 Body, Body on the wall ...
- 1999 The Last Words
- 2000 Inasmuch
- 2001 Silver
- 2002 In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
- 2005 blush
- 2007 Here After
- 2011 Monkey Sandwich
- 2015 galloping min
Awards
- 1988: Bessie Award for What the Body Does Not Remember
- 1990: Bessie Award for Les Porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles
- 2007: Choreography Media Honor of the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles
- 2012: Keizer Karel Prize
- Evens Arts Prize (2013)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez .
- ^ Pascal Gielen, Rudi Laermans: The Flemish wave: myth and reality . SARMA.
- ^ Emmanuelle Dreyfus: About Wim Vandekeybus . Archived from the original on August 10, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
- ^ The Power of Theatrical Madness: Re-enactement creation 1984 .
- ↑ Pieter 't Jonck: The rage of staging . Lannoo, Tielt 2016, ISBN 978-94-014-3471-3 .
- ^ Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino: Wim Vandekeybus, The Rage of Living . In: Ballet 2000 . 2016.
- ^ Bessie Award Archive .
- ^ DGA Awards History .
- ↑ Wim Vandekeybus receives Keizer Karel Prize . Archived from the original on August 10, 2017. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 11, 2017.
- ↑ An independent jury decided to award the Evens Arts Prize 2013 to Wim Vandekeybus and his company Ultima Vez. .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vandekeybus, Wim |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Vez, Ultima |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian choreographer, director and photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1963 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Herenthout |