title : Laura Pante (2020)

concept : Jérôme Bel
assistant : Chiara Gallerani
by and with : Laura Pante
with extracts of : A sangue freddo (20XX) by Silvia Costa, sound of Lorenzo Tomio; Temporary Title (2016) by Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu; Profondo Rosa (2021) by Laura Pante, music by Guglielmo Bottin and Beatrice Goldoni; Danza dei Capelli (2015) by Cristina Kristal Rizzo

duration : 60 minutes approx.
language : Italian

production : CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del FVG
in collaboration with : Institut français Italia and Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati

R.B Jérôme Bel is supported by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Ile-de-France, French Ministry for Culture.
Jérôme Bel est associated artist to Le Quartz – scène nationale de Brest and to Centre national de la danse (Pantin).

R.B. Jérôme Bel :
artistic advice and executive direction : Rebecca Lasselin
production manager : Sandro Grando
website : www.jeromebel.fr

A year ago - for ecological reasons - my dance collaborators and I stopped all air-travel. Instead, I started contemplating new practices in choreography, like restaging the group pieces The Show Must Go On and Gala, with an all-local cast and assistants. Still I wish to go further by writing solo dance scores which are eloquent transmissions, so that I do not have to meet the dancer. Whilst I was formulating the dance scores, the Coronavirus crisis started spreading fast across the globe. This project thus became all the more urgent and necessary, especially since theatres everywhere were being shut down.

At the invitation of Fabrizio Arcuri, I will carry out this experiment for CSS Di Udine, this summer, with the dancer living in the region, Laura Pante.

Jerome Bel, May 2020, Paris