There is a mystical quality to the bodies smeared with clay and paint, swirling, stumbling and plunging their way through archaic transformations. Driven by ancient stories and modern techniques, with flaming heads or beneath ghostly masks, they reach the limits of what it means to be human. For this visually stunning dream, Wim Vandekeybus has teamed up with Congolese-French artist Olivier de Sagazan and Spanish composer Charo Calvo to reawaken the 4,000-year-old hymn of a priestess to the intersex Sumerian goddess Inanna.
Direction & Choreography: Wim Vandekeybus
Artistic creation with clay: Olivier de Sagazan
Music composed and produced by: Charo Calvo
Aditional original music (red dance): Norbert Pflanzer
Live camera: Wim Vandekeybus
Artistic assistant: Margherita Scalise
Dramaturgy: Erwin Jans
Costume design: Isabelle Lhoas
Costume assistance & accessoires: Isabelle de Cannière & Cèline de Schepper
Light design: Wim Vandekeybus & Thomas Glorieux
Sound Engineer: Christian Schröder
Production: Ultima Vez
Co-production: KVS Brussel, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara
Created and performed by: Olivier de Sagazan, Lieve Meeussen, Wim Vandekeybus, Maria Kolegova, Mufutau Yusuf, Borna Babić, Maureen Bator, Davide Belotti, Pieter Desmet and Anna Karenina Lambrechts
Technical Coordination & Stage Management: Thomas Glorieux
Asissted by: Benjamin Verbrugge
With the support of Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government, Casa
Kafka Pictures Tax Shelter empowered by Belfius. Ultima Vez is supported by the Flemish
