Lemm&Barkey / Needcompany

›The Farewell‹, the last section of Gustav Mahler’s ›The Song of the Earth‹, constitutes both starting point as well as vanishing point for Grace Ellen Barkey’s most personal choreography to date: ›FOREVER‹, to which she and scenographer Lot Lemm give powerful visual expression. The music, sung live by Maarten Seghers in a haunting, unaccompanied version, meshes with the three dancers to become a moving force for the evening. A fragile yet stable installation made of porcelain objects opens up a space for disjointed struggles over questions of mortality and eternity. Should the relationship between life and death represent a paradox, simultaneously mutually dependent and restricting, so time becomes a living expression which Lemm&Barkey modify, and invite the audience to constantly re-define anew.

FRI 10.3., 19.30 H introduction

»… the finiteness of human life deserves a song or a dance too...«Grace Ellen Barkey

Installation: Lemm&Barkey
Idea, choreography: Grace Ellen Barkey
Music: Interpretation of Der Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde), Gustav MahlerWith: Maarten Seghers, Mélissa Guérin, Sarah Lutz, Mohamed ToukabriMusical director: Rombout Willems
Costumes: Lot Lemm
Dramaturgy: Elke Janssens
Lighting, video-programming: Gwen Laroche
Sound: Bart Aga
Trainee assistant to the director: Camille Doucet
Production manager: Marjolein Demey
Singing coach: Lucy Grauman
Photo: Phile DeprezProduction: Needcompany 
Co-production: Steirischer Herbst (Graz), Internationales Figurentheater-Festival (Erlangen, Nürnberg), PACT Zollverein (Essen). With the support of the Flemish authorities.

Touring

06.11.2020,Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR) (postponed)05.11.2020,Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR) (postponed)04.11.2020,Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR) (postponed)30.04.2020,Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR) (postponed)29.04.2020,Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR) (postponed)28.04.2020,Théâtre Garonne, Toulouse (FR) (postponed)06.03.2020, Rijeka 2020, Rijeka (HR)21.06.2018, Malta Festival Poznan, Posen (PL)07.02.2018, CC Brugge, Brügge (BE)08.11.2017, STUK Kunstencentrum vzw, Löwen (BE)07.11.2017, STUK Kunstencentrum vzw, Löwen (BE)05.10.2017, Kultuurfaktorij Monty, Antwerpen (BE)26.05.2017, internationales figuren.theater.festival, Nürnberg (DE)24.05.2017, internationales figuren.theater.festival, Erlangen (DE)17.03.2017, Theater aan het Vrijthof, Maastricht (NL)11.03.2017, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)10.03.2017, PACT Zollverein, Essen (DE)29.10.2016, CC Strombeek, Strombeek-Bever (BE)23.10.2016, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)22.10.2016, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)21.10.2016, Kaaitheater, Brüssel (BE)07.10.2016, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt a.M. (DE)25.09.2016, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT)24.09.2016, Steirischer Herbst, Graz (AT)