Mossoux-Bonté (Bel)
Kefar Nahum UK Premiere
Barbican, The Pit >
Tue 19 > Sat 23 Jan
7.45pm
Meet the Artists Thu 21 Jan
Runs approx 50 mins/no interval
£12
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'An astonishing performance by the dancer/manipulator. She breathes life into objects. Uncategorisable, irresistible, monstrous and lyrical'.
Le Soir (Brussels)
In Kefar Nahum, sorceress-puppeteer Nicole Mossoux creates theatre of startling, unforgettable images, at once droll and frightening. She endows random objects with human desires and animal impulses, and reincarnates them as actors. They represent the supreme shambles that is humanity. Everything is possible in this world, where suggestion opens the door to the darkest, deepest dreams. Power games and monstrous couplings, feudal rights and unexplained violence take place in a procession of transformations. It’s the story of Creation, a great project gone badly wrong, where people can’t relate and so devour each other. Even the puppeteer herself cannot escape.
Nicole Mossoux and Patrick Bonté have been creating performances at the crossroads of theatre and dance since 1985. Seen in more than 30 countries across the world and also on film, their work - both intimate and large scale - explores inexpressible human feelings through a language of movement that grips the spectator’s imagination. The company is based in Brussels, where Patrick Bonté is also artistic director of the influential avant-garde dance and theatre season, Festival International des Brigittines. Thomas Turine is a performer/composer who has worked with many Belgian companies. He juxtaposes microphones and instruments with the objects and performers he encounters on stage.
Directed by: Patrick Bonté & Nicole Mossoux
Soundscore composed and played live by: Thomas Turine
Production: Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté in co-production with Fidena Festival, Bochum (Germany)
Presented in association with bite10
photos:© Mika Wajnrych
