MEDIATHEK

La Tristeza Complice
Sven Augustijnen

S8 to video, b/w, 4:3, stereo, French text, BE, 1996, 37’

This work is a document of and about the people who were involved with the creation by Les Ballets C. de la B. of ‘La Tristeza Complice’. The medium, super 8 film, enables the makers of the tape to observe the production process from the margin. The functional and operational aims are not to inform or to document, but rather to obtain emotions and a nostalgic feeling, which is intensified by the use of black/white material. The images presented bring things to mind, the visible represents what is invisible. Dancers, musicians, choreographer, composers and playwrights, all people of different sex, nationality and opinion were working on the same project under the guidance of Alain Platel; shared melancholy. As a consequence, the theme (individuals being placed in a fragmentary multi-cultural society, and co-existence as a goal) and the actual relationships between the people who were involved could not longer be separated. In that sense the persons that are portrayed present a mirror of themselves, and also of (and for) others.

Concept & camera Sven Augustijnen
Edit Hans Meijer
Produced by Les Ballets C. de la B., Het Muziek Lod
Co-produced by deSingel, Théâtre de la Ville, kc Vooruit, K.I.T. – Canon Hallen
With the support of Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen, Stad Gent & Noordstarfonds

La tristeza complice

concept & direction: Alain

performance:
Koen Augustijnen, Philippe Beloul, Ronald Burchi / Franck Chartier, Gabriëla Carrizo, Katherine Cogill / Lisa Gunstone, Severine Krott / Juliette Bougard, Sam Louwyck, Abdelaziz Sarrokh, Ghani Minne Vosteen, Angélique Willkie, SanneThyrion / Mathieu Delporte / Nelis Cosyns, Necati Köylü / Thomas Dhanens / Ian Mattan

music:
Dick van der Harst (based on Henry Purcell)

music performed by
Emmanuel Compte, Gwen Cresens, Freddy Caelen, Patricia George, Wim Kestens, Ludo Mariën, Ivan
Smeulders, Mike Smeulders, Jürgen Steenkiste, Edwig Abrath, Philippe Thuriot

singer
Eurudike De Beul / Fazila Ugljesa

dramaturgy
Hildegard De Vuyst

set
William Phlips

technique
Mark Vandermeulen, Johan Strumane

production management
Kristel Deweerdt

tour management
Linda Suy

production
Het muziek Lod
les ballets C de la B

co - production
deSingel (Antwerpen), Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Gent), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), K.I.T.-Canonhallen (Kopenhagen)

première
19/09/1995, deSingel, Antwerpen

tour
Antwerpen, Hasselt, Eindhoven, Gent, Kortrijk, Brugge, Leuven, Groningen, Arnhem, Amsterdam, Kopenhagen, Den Bosch, Douai, Glasgow, Grenoble, Hamburg, Leipzig, Dieppe, Lisboa, Modena, Mullhouse, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Toronto, Columbus, Ottawa, New York, Vilnius, Zürich, Genève, Nantes, Rotterdam, Bourges, Paris, Tilburg,
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