MEDIATHEK

Even before he seeks to create dance, Jérôme Bel raises the issue of the body and flesh. In this newcomer’s radical production there are four people on stage completely naked. Muscles, rolls of fat, cellulite: nothing is hidden without it being put on show for all that. A woman lying stretched out in the position of an odalisque holds a torch which is to be the only lighting for the show. Another one ceaselessly chants the telluric rhythm of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. To the lighting of the one and the soft singing of the other, Claire Haenni and Frédéric Sequette explore their bodies down to their smallest nooks and crannies. They invent new veins and new wounds for them with a tube of lipstick. They decorate them too. Relentlessly they seek to take possession of their bodies. Jérôme Bel has a deadpan sense of humour. (Le monde Dominique Frétard 10.11.1995) www.jeromebel.fr) ZE im MCB CH Signatur HfS: 353.2