title : The show must go on 2 (2004)

conception and direction : Jérôme Bel
creation : Brussels (Belgium), on October 14th 2004, at the Kaaitheater
with : Frédéric Seguette and Jéröme Bel
assistant : Cuqui Jerez
production : Kaaitheater (Brussels), Hebbel Am Ufer (Berlin), Les spectacles vivants-Centre Pompidou, Festival d’Automne (Paris) and R.B. Jerome Bel (Paris)
main grant partner : Allianz Kulturstiftung (Munich)
with the support of : TanzWerkstatt (Berlin), Stuk Kunstencentrum (Leuven) and the Centre Choregraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, ReRc program

duration : 80 minutes
language : The piece is in english without translation

R.B Jérôme Bel is supported by the Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Ile-de-France, French Ministry for Culture and Communication, by the Institut Français, French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, for its international tours and by ONDA - Office National de Diffusion Artistique - for its tours in France
website : www.jeromebel.fr

« That is performance, performance is waiting for the performance(…) waiting alone, in the anxious atmosphere, for the beginning, for something to begin, for something else than oneself »

Samuel Beckett L’innommable, 1949

«- Mama, what is language ?
- It is the house where humans live.»

Jean-Luc Godard 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d’elle, 1967