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BlackSKYwhite
“BERTHRAND’S TOYS”
Opening The International Mimefestival – part
6, a gripping, dense and dreamlike danse macabre from
Moscow’s cutting edge BlackSKYwhite company.
A sell-out hit at the 2000 Edinburgh Festival and
the ‘Fringe First’ and ‘Total Theatre’
award winner.
BlackSKYwhite : inspired by Russian ancient ritual,
commedia dell’arte,expressionist and horror films.
Berthrand’s Toys : A swirl of movement, colour,
light and pounding industrial sound rushes you headlong
to the edge of the abyss. As night falls, strange
clockwork dolls and giant marionettes emerge into
a place of beauty and terror....
‘Disquieting, disturbing and discomforting,
it reflects your inner fears and holds you in a trance’.
“The Moscow Tribune”
‘Forget plot, forget character, forget through
lines, narrative development or thematic progression.
Unforgetable !’ “The Times”
| Age : youth
and adults
Date : Preview Thursday Oct. 3th 2002
OPENINGNIGHT OF THE FESTIVAL Friday Oct. 4th
2002
Duration performance : 65 minutes
Genre : visual and physical theatre
Extra : “Top of the Bill” |
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Marta Carrasco
“AIGUARDENT”
The Catalan Marta Carrasco brings an intimate solo performance,
using many common elements in movement, voice and ambiance.
Marta’s work is an open attempt at breaking the
barriers between dance and theatre with a strong story
and sensitive choreography. Marta Carrasco, last year
- with succes - our guest at the International Mimefestival,
is a splendid and all-round actrice. Full houses have
greeted this solo production which sets the standards
for dance-theatre in its quest for new audiences.
“Aiguardent”, literally ‘burning water’,
is a voyage through the experiences of a broken woman.
A voyage through her memories, her dreams, her wistful
ironies, her abandonment. A woman slowly drowning in
an atmosphere which is completely familiair and at the
same time an inside-out version of everyday life.
‘Marta Carrasco shows a strong composition,
her visual intuition intensifies the theatrical impact.’
“Teatri di Vita”
‘Aiguardent’
is a breath-taking experience, as each sequence contains
surprisingly powerful images.’ “ Barcelona
Press”
| Age
: adults
Date : Saturday, Oct. 5th. 2002
Duration performance : 60 minutes
Genre : dramatic, dansant and strong visual
theatre |
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The PINOKKIO
is awarded during the festival. We want to support
the beginning mime-artists or mime-companys in their
fragile evolution. Its aim is to give a modest structural
and financial hand. The Pinokkio Award is a contest,
already known abroad, with a jury containing theatre
professionals. The winner gets € 1000.
All participants present their work-in progress
in max. 20 minutes. There is also an audience award
of € 250, so don’t forget to invite you’re
friends and family!
Quick reservation is the message. Again we’re
counting on an all-rounded, suprisingly and variable
PINOKKIO AWARD 2002.
| Age
: all ages
Date : Sunday, Oct. 6th 2002
Duration performance : 2 x 75 minutes
Genre : fans of changement and young-theatre
violence don’t miss this opportunity.
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Pantomime
Théâtre de Labaroche
“LUNE MON AMIE”
Pantomime Théâtre de Labaroche offers
us a real moment of tenderness, poetry, a glimpse
of happyness for youngsters and adults. A poetical
story supported by music and back projections
Pierrot - the Classical and mythical Character has
a love encounter with the moon. Is Pierrot dreaming
or is he not?
‘Children are captivated by mouvements and face
expressions, Music and shadows are the only set.’
“Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace”
Exeptionnal, mime speaks !!’ “Le Colmar”
| Age : From
3
Date : Sunday, Oct. 6th. 2002
Duration : 35 minutes
Genre : Pantomime |
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Compagnie Dos
à Deux
“DOS A DEUX
”André
Curti et Arthur Ribeiro, Brazilian artists, created
Dos à Deux after a long period of research..
Definitely guided in their work by the most famous clowns
from Chaplin to Buster Keaton, burlesque improvisation
becomes an imaginary transposition of the major themes
of “Waiting for Godot”. The performance “Dos
à Deux” is an explosion of imagination,
creativity and humour and the mingling of comedy and
tragedy.
Alone in the world, they wait. they wait for someone
that we know will never come. Suspended in time, they
play absurd games, agrue endlessly, and find each other
again to fill the silence. those are children, holding
each other, protecting each other.
‘They
dance, they jive, and contort their bodies to an unimaginable
level. Is it a dance format? Is it a mime show? Is it
just our expression of senses through ‘body language’?
All yes and yet, no-an ability beyond words’ “Bombay
Times”
‘They are not dancers, nor
mimes, nor clows, but the three together and they are
perfect.’ “Radio France”
| Age : From
14
Date : Tuesday, Oct. 8th 2002
Duration : 60 minutes
Genre : Physical theatre and humour |
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Antonin Novotny
“WHAT IS WHITE DOGSHIT REALLY GOOD FOR”
“What is white dogshit really good for”
is a type of psycho-social theatre denying any forms
and conventions and taking for basis the feeling as
a reaction towards objects and relations. Absurd and
cheerfull, the disarmning appearance of this mime
Antonin Novotny. Again and again tickles this bearded
man our curiosity.
The counterparty is abstract and the spectator perceives
it only through mime and non-verbal reactions. The
protagonist goes through situations wich gradually
traumatize him so that he eventually disappears in
reality. His live does not have a tragic ending, it
is just transformed into another form of existence.
| Age : adults
Date: Wednesday, Oct. 9th and Thursday, Oct.
10th 2002
Duration : 45 minutes
Genre : visual and absurd theatre |
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Igdyz
Theatre
“BAD BATH”
The Chechian “ Igdyz Theatre” was founded
as “ a theatre of authors-projects” It consist
of individuals, actors and non-actors. Igdyz means :
a never – ending process, an apple pie, bottomless
creative gravidity, a well – arranged mystification,
moving parts of the human body and a bad translation
of the conjunction “even if”. All performances
share characteristic poetics, bottemless know-how, playfullness
and endless source of ideas. On their stage everything
is possible. Sometimes they speak, too. However, with
the theatre Igdyz it is not impossible that the actors
will start singing or diving. With “Bad bath”
they bring flashing ‘bathroomtheatre’, while
mainly trying to stand-up on the inclined stage.
| Age : all
ages
Date : Wednesday, Oct. 9th and Thursday, Oct.
10th 2002
Duration : 70 minutes
Genre : playful, expressive and humour-sensitive
theatre |
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Continuo Theatre
“SO LONG AS YOUR DREAMS DON’T BREAK UP”
A grotesque, creative, movement and dance performance
by Continuo Theatre. A montage of wedding scenes, dreams,
memories, nightmares and drunken visions. This street
theatre is inspired by folk wedding ceremonies, the
courtship behavior of animals, knightly tournaments,
sporting matches, gunfights, and the memories of the
weddings and divorces of the participants themselves.
His wedding day is before him. He drank. A lot. They
take him home and set his alarm clock. In his drunken
thoughts the whirlwind of wedding images and visions
won’t stop. Sometimes there are two brides, or
three, sometimes the bride herself is missing. Even
his shoes are on fire. And his alarm clock...?
| Age
: all ages
Date : Thursday, Oct. 10th 2002
Duration : 50 minutes
Genre : poetical and ravishing street theatre
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Compagnie d’Ailleurs was created in Montevideo,
Uruguay. Their shows travel on stilt accross europe
and in Canada.
“UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME”
Robert en Lucienne go for a walk in the streets they
will meet people rather different from them. Nevertheless,
they will try to be like them...and so the adventure
begins
Trois apprentis-chercheurs et une charette sont en
quête de leur pierre philosophale. Ils ont été
délégués par la Haute Confrérie
des Alchimistes d’Ailleurs. l’Intention
: chercher, farfouiller, récolter, analyser,
transformer et découvrir.
Age : All ages
Date : Thursday 10 October 2002
Duration : 2x 50 minutes
Genre: Street Theatre
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“SOUVENIRS D’AILLEURS”
Three apprentices in science Looking for the truth.
Sent by the society of Alchimist from far away. Researching,
analysing, transforming and discovering...
| Age : All
ages
Date : Saturday 12 October 2002
Duration : 2x 50 minutes
Genre : spectacle de rue |
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LA COMPAGNIE
DU CHIEN QUI TOUSSE
“CABARET INTERNATIONAL”
La Companie Du Chien Qui Tousse offers us their latest
creation “Cabaret International” ,a mosaïque
de commedia dell’arte and cabaret. for characters,lead
the publc in a world of circus, poetry and absurd
stupidity.
Madame Loyale gatherred international artists from
all over the world (er...almost) . Are invited:a réuni
pour cette soirée des artistes renommés
du monde entier, enfin presque. Sont invités
: les Frères Fargiani Brothers from Italy,
Roberto Ramirez Gonzalo dalla Playa from Portugal
with his famous stick, Les Visages de Bâle and
their moonlike masks. under her direction, the numbers
follow each other, going always farther, faster and
higher.
| Age : all
ages
Dates : Friday 11 and Saturday 12 October 2002
Duration : 60 minutes
Genre : Physical theatre and humour |
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Maren Strack
“LATEX”
Born in hamburgh, Maren Strack graduated from the
Ecole supérieure des Beaux Arts Of Munich in
sculpture. Since 1995, she presents her originals
and unexpected creations,
In Latex, She tests the solidity and the elasticity
of a latex dress, fixed to the ground. In between
an oniric image and a physical experiment this show
in ancred into a cold but attractive subjectivity
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| Age
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Dates : Friday 11 and Saturday 12 October 2002
Durée : 20 minutes
Genre : Experimental theatre |
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Teatro Inercia
“TRANSMUTATION”
Shanti Oyarzabal studied at the “Ecole de Mime
Corporel”, followed body-training by Yves Lebreton,
voice and body movement by W. Mehring, Butho-dans by
Sankai Juku and experimental dans by Shiro Daimon. Shanti
Oyarzabal had been inspired for his performance from
the mythology of the ‘Huicholes’ indigenes
of Mexico, where they contemplate the Blue Deer ‘KAUYUMARI’
as a very special god. The theme of the performance
is the constant change of form and essence of the matter.
From the blue of the ocean and the flowing rhythm of
the waves, the presented body transforms successively
into a plant, a devil-like creature, a tree, a deer,
a bird, before expiring in fire.
‘Shanti masters the instant metamorphosis from
a laughing mask in great agony, a deformed and grotesque
body, to a state of deep meditation.’ “”Berliner
Zeitung”
‘The shamanism of ritual embodiment that becomes
an ecstatic experience for eyes and vision.’
“Ballett international tanz aktuell”
Age : adults
Data : Friday, Oct. 11th and Saturday, Oct. 12th 2002
Duration performance : 55 minutes
Genre : movement theatre and Butho
| Age : adults
Data : Friday, Oct. 11th and Saturday, Oct.
12th 2002
Duration performance : 55 minutes
Genre : movement theatre and Butho |
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Fiat
Lux
“NOUVELLES FOLIES”
Fiat Lux’s exuberant comedy of clashing cultures
and competing masculinities is a delight from start
to finish. “Nouvelles Folies” , a light-hearted
tale where earthy wisdom and humour go hand in hand.
This play is ludicrous, musical and particulary visual.
Not a word passes between the seven players, but their
performance is another step forward in Fiat Lux’s
search for perfection in the art of the clown. An hour
of delirium called “Nouvelles Folies” .
They’re just a happy couple. Come all the way from
Paris to spend a few days in a quit little spot on the
Breton coast. Far from the madding crowd, just to ‘get
away from it all’ and ‘recharge the batteries’.
But the locals are not exactly friendly...‘A non-stop
flow of Monty-Pytonesque scenes, but chock full of wit
and subtle poetry. A rare and delicious treat in the
true spirit of Jacques Tati’s ‘M. Hulot’.
“Die Welt”
‘Each step, each
movement is pregnant with meaning and the impression
is one very rarely experienced at the theatre, of watching
a perfecly edited film.’ “Süddeutsche
Zeitung”
| Age : all
ages
Date : Sunday Oct. 13th 2002
Duration performance : 70 minutes
Genre : VERY humorous |
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EXPO – 20 YEARS MIMES AT
MIMOS
Date : 4 to 13 October – Free entrance
In 1983, an international mimefestival was organised
for the first time in Périgueux, tonw in the
South of France. Today, two talented photographers from
the first hour are presenting a round-up exhibition
of the 18 successful editions that would follow afterwards.
A magnificent exhibition that shows like nothing else
the very different sides of this art form.
Maurice Melliet and Guy Charrié:
Maurice Melliet, an autodidact constantly searching
for the secret of contemporary alchemy. This photographer,
journalist, graphic and poet, feels his selves connected
to the cultural scene and he definitely doesn’t
want to keep it as a secret, his admiration to the artists.
Guy Charrié chooses black-white photography.
He trains now and then photographing rugby games, because
body mouvement plays also a leading role there. The
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RAOUL SERVAIS
“Portrait of a painter-filmmaker”
Date : 4 to 13 October – Free entrance
After Annecy, Montréal and Gent this unique
exposition is now in Aarschot and offers you the opportunity
to learn more about the Flemish grandmaster of animation
movies. This exhibition, an excellent overview of
40 years of animation movies, contains original animation
draws, but also attributes and installations where
the entire animation film's process becomes totally
visual. Moreover, this exhibition shows the less-known
side of Raoul SERVAIS, notabely that of a very talented
painter.
Raoul Servais was born in Ostend on 1st May 1928.
After his studies at the Royal Academy of Modern Art
in Gent he made his first three movies. In 1966 he
founded the very first training centre for animation
movies in Europe. He made a number of short animation
movies and a full-length one, which was awarded more
than fifty national and international prices. Raoul
Servais also leaves the bases of different technological
innovations, for example the Servaisgraphy, a process
that makes it possible, on a relatively easy basis,
to combine life-action takes together with drawn pictures.
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FILM : ATTRACTION
This film will be shown in the main auditorium and
has been added to the program. All productions start
at 20.15. The film is included in the price of your
ticket.
Attraction is the story of prisoners who wander in
a scenery of "craquelures et boursouflures."
One of them attempts to look above him, towards the
only blinding source of light. Would it be the lighthouse
indicating the way to freedom? To salvation? Th man
decides to go and discover it...
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WORKSHOP 1 –
BODY & THEATER given by Shanti Oyarzabal (Mexico)
Date: Wednesday & Thursday 9 & 10 October, 9/12
AM & 14/17 PM - Workshop Fee : € 90
In this intensive mime workshop, different body disciplines
will be connected with each other. The main purpose
is the research of each one’s personal possibilities
of expression and the presence of the body on stage.
The main themes for this workshop are fire, air, water
and earth. This workshop is for actors with some experience
and or education-background in the same area. Shanti
OYARZABAL (Mexico) studied anthropology and theatre
science in Mexico. In Paris he studied with Etienne
Decroux, Yves Lebreton, The Butoh-Group Sankai Juku
and Shiro-Daimon. He has developed his own style thanks
to these schools and institutions. Since 1986 he teaches
body training for actors, dancers, mimes and singers
in different schools, amongst others at the Berlin Mimecentre.
In 1990 he found Teatro Inercia, which is performing
in this edition of our mimefestival on Friday &
Saturday 11 & 12 October. Participants to the workshop
will get free entrance to the performance. The festival
can help you to get cheap accomodation. Look also for
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WORKSHOP 2 –INITIATION
WORKSHOP MASKPLAY– given byCie. Du chien qui Tousse
(Belgium)
Date: Saturday & Sunday 12 & 13 October, 10/12
AM & 14/16 PM - Workshop Fee: € 20
Putting on a mask? How to use it? Hoe to manipulate
it? What’s the use of a mask? What’s the
difference between playing masks and masks with lots
of expression and carnival masks? This workshop shall
try to explain this subject, by simple exercises, using
play and movement. This workshop is given by the actors
from the Cie du Chien qui Tousse, all trained at the
school of Saïdi Lassaâd (Brussels). Participants
to this workshop will get a free entrance to the performances
of Cie du Chien qui Tousse, on Friday & Saturday
11 & 12 October. The festival can help you to get
cheap accommodation. Look also to the interesting tourist
arrangements in this brochure.
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| Have Already played in the MimeFestival
:
1997: Abel & Gordon (B/CAN), Kdijk (NL), Ilka
Schönbein (D), Snell°Thouin Projects (CAN),
Habbe & Meik (D), Musidora (B/FR), Carloconi (B),
Trudie & August (B), Danie Jordens (B), Nicole
Beutler (NL), Sabbattini (B), Danny Ronaldo (B), Les
Argonautes (B), Elliot (B), Circus in Beweging (B),
Wurre Wurre (B)
1998: Cie. Marta Atanasiu (ESP), Cie. Nicole Mossoux
- Patrick Bonté (B), The Primitives (B), Fawin
Abes (B), Pantomimteatern (Sweden), Mimikritchi (Oekraïn),
Sabbattini (B), Kdijk (NL), La Ribot (ESP), Les Argonautes
(B), Habbe & Meik (D), Théâtre de
L'Ange Fou (International),
1999: Paolo Nani (Denmark), Sortie de Sécours
Théâtre (FR), Gerard Pillen (NL), Danstheater
Dee (NL), Nola Rae (UK), BP Zoom (FR/USA), Toon Maas
(NL), Brenda Waite & Sue Arnolds (AUSTRALIA),
Patricia Suer (NL)
2000 : Monsieur & Madame O (FR), Nakupelle (USA/Finland),
Monique Schnyder (Suisse), Mimomagique (FR/D), The
Mikos (Oekraïn)
2001: Marta Carrasco (Spain), Judith Nab (Netherlands),
Les Bubb (UK), Pantomimteatern (Sweden), Theatre de
l'Ange Fou (international), Die Sonderlinge (Ukraine),
Pep Bou (Spain) |
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The Festival:
artistic director : MArc Crauwels, Managing Director
: Huub Colla, Festivalcoördinator : Eva d'Haenens
Adress: Gasthuisstraat 24, 3200 Aarschot
Tel : +32/(0)16/491 032 - fax +32/(0)16/491 034
Email : info@mime.be |
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