Alain Platel I KVS I Belgium


Dance theatre about being-at-war
A dancer, an actor and a distressing script. Nine Finger is based on the novel Beasts of No Nation written by Uzodinma Iweala, an American author of Nigerian descent. Through the eyes of a child soldier in a non-specific African country he tells the story of the perversity and consequences of war. The childishly fragmentary, brutally honest language gives the performance animalistic traits: Rape, havoc, death, despair, broken souls and bodies enslaved by madness. The intense interaction of movement, language and sound convey what it must be like to be part of the machinery of war in which one gradually loses ones mind. What can art achieve given the horrors of the world?
Alain Platel, with his company Les Ballets C de la B pushes the boundaries of theatre, dance and music and is one of the major artists of our time. The performers are Fumiyo Ikeda, an icon of contemporary dance and a member of Anna Teresa De Keersmaekers Compagnie Rosas and actor Stijn Van Opstal from the collective Olympique Dramatique.

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By Fumiyo Ikeda, Alain Platel, Benjamin Verdonck With Fumiyo Ikeda und Stijn Van Opstal Set Herman Sorgeloos Costumes Anne-Catherine Kunz Production KVS Brüssel, Rosas Brüssel Coproduction De Munt/La Monnaie