NOBOLERO (2017)

‘NOBOLERO, a performance art project made on intellectual property, dreams and artistic movement in collaboration with neuro scientist of sleep Dr. Joelle Adrien et musician Madmoizel on the original music score of the Bolero by Maurice Ravel.’

world premiere March 17, 2016

Centre Pompidou Metz ,FR

Chantal Yzermans' question puts at stake our own statement regarding an iconic piece of art: what we see through it, or what we are driven to see.  In NOBOLERO, Yzermans  misappropriates and even challenges the artistic movement as she reduces it to fragments, discharging the choreography from all its references, in order to extract its pure essence.  The result of connecting Dance with a Scientific research on sleep and the origins of dreams, brings a hypnotic performance, which leads us to an ancestral ritual.  Constantly navigating between reality and imagination, this personal quest drives us into the origins of mankind and our own identity, beyond the intellectual appropriation of a piece of art.

As a resident in la Cité des Arts Paris (2014), Chantal Yzermans started a research on this project in collaboration with Dr. Joelle Adrien, neuro scientist of sleep and head of the research group at INSERM / Faculté de Médecine Pitié- Salpétrière-Paris. Dr. Joelle Adrien has been working at La Salpétrière for over more than 30 years on a research about sleep behaviour in new-borns and foetus. 

Questioning the interpretation of a work of art and where does the originality of a piece stand, the focus is to join into a continuous dialogue with our artistic research and engagement on appropriation, the idea of originality, the relation between power and creativity, dreams as intellectual property.

concept & dance Chantal Yzermans

lecture performance Dr. Joelle Adrien

live MADMOIZEL

musique  Boléro of Ravel

dramaturgy Mark Geurden & Koen Bollen

costume Jean Paul Lespagnard

light Elke Verachtert

Coproduction: Centre Pompidou Metz (FR) Jan Fabre / Troubleyn (BE),

Kultuurfaktorij Monty (BE), TAKT Dommelhof (BE)

art residencies

Cité des arts internationales Paris (FR)

Kunstencentrum Vooruit (BE), 

Teatros del Canal Madrid (ES)

video Laetitia Bica Guido Verelst Sylvia Zade-Routier