"The Show Must Go On!" "Jérôme Bel" "Nom donné par l’auteur" Passion, drama, decline, and survival, this is, what film and stage are made of. The show must go on. Since the mid-90s French choreographer Jérôme Bel has been examining how images operate on stage and which codes and signs are capable of fascinating an audience. "The show must go on" is so far the latest work by the most precise philosopher and sociologist among European dance artists. A DJ on the turntables, a handful of young people showing some actions: With only few, yet accurately calculated means Bel exposes the structures underlying the theatre: the darkness, the spotlights, the entrance of actors, the encounter, the loneliness, the acting and the dying, the music and the emotions – Jérôme Bel has all these pass in review. The result is marvellously light, but also highly revealing. Equally intriguing and of stunning programmatic clarity are Jérôme Bel’s first two works, "Jérôme Bel" and "Nom donné par l’auteur". Whether dealing with signs and objects or the symbols of our label-mad consumer and performance society – Bel, admirer of Roland Barthes, dissects both with subtle sarcasm and an infallible sense for stagecraft.