Festival d’Avignon selects four Belgian works
Jan Martens - Ode to the attempt (c) Bruno Simao
For its 72nd edition the Festival d’Avignon is programming Belgian shows by Jan Martens, Milo Rau, Ivo Van Hove and Anne-Cécile Vandalem.
Choreographer Jan Martens will make his debut in Avignon with Ode to the attempt, a short solo performance in which he stages his creative process. Taking the form of a series of ‘attempts’, he invites the audience to have a look inside his head and inside his computer.
Milo Rau explores the border between fiction and reality in La Reprise: Histoire(s) du théâtre (I). The Swiss theatre-maker has reaped controversy and success in the past already with, among others, the show Five Easy Pieces, staged at CAMPO arts centre. This year Milo Rau became the artistic director of NTGent. La Reprise will premiere during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels.
Theatre and opera director Ivo Van Hove has been selected with De dingen die voorbij gaan, co-produced by Toneelgroep Amsterdam and Toneelhuis (Antwerp). This adaptation of the book by Dutch writer Louis Couperus is the second part in the trilogy by Van Hove.
With the political thriller Arctique, Brussels director Anne-Cécile Vandalem is reintroducing the language of film into the theatre. Like Milo Rau and Ivan Van Hove, she is no newcomer to the festival, since she had been selected in 2016 already with Tristesses.
This year the Festival d’Avignon will take place from 6 until 24 July.
Thumbnail photo: Anne-Cécile Vandalem – Arctique (c) Christophe Engels
