Jérôme Bel

photo: Blaise Adilon		photo: Blaise Adilon

The show must go on (Mac Lyon), 2007
Production Biennale de Lyon
6 salles, casques audio, bande-son, lumière
Trois programmes sont disponibles : français, international et enfant.
Avec le soutien de Sikkens-Vachon

JÉRÔME BEL
born 1964 in Montpellier lives and works in Paris and Rio de Janeiro
A former student at the National Contemporary Dance Centre in Angers, Jérôme Bel was dancing for choreographers in France and abroad – among them Angelin Preljocaj and Daniel Larrieu – before joining Philippe Decouflé for the 16th Winter Olympiad ceremonies in Albertville. He began writing his own dance pieces in the early 1990s. Rigorously anti-spectacular and bringing the simplest scenography to presentations of the starkly trivial, Bel’s works quickly made him the spokesman for a dance approach challenging the standard codes of representation and technical virtuosity. Among his best-known works are “nom donné par l’auteur” (1994) , “Jérôme Bel” (1995), “Shirtologie” (1997), “Xavier Le Roy” (1999) and “The Show Must Go On” (2001, now part of the repertoire of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg). He recently wrote a duet for Véronique Doisneau, star dancer at the Paris Opera, and another designed as a dialogue-encounter between traditional Thai dancer Pichet Klunchun and himself. For the Lyon Biennial he has choreographed “The Show Must Go On” for the members of the Lyon Opera Ballet and will present it as an atypical exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art.