Guest Performances

Photo: Josefina Tommasi

GALA
Jérôme Bel / France

• Wed 08/31 : 9 pm

  Thu 09/01 : 7 pm

• 2Kleines Haus
• 90 min
• Without language
• 25 € / 15 € / 8 € / red. 8 €

“A load of completely normal people get together – with a unique result”: this is what a well-known theatre magazine had to say about Gala, the latest work by international performance star Jérôme Bel. — Gala, is a portrait – a portrait of individuals, a portrait of bodies, a portrait of the city we live in. Newly produced for
Wiesbaden and its inhabitants. They take over the stage. Including those you wouldn’t normally find in a theatre. Who are the invisible people in our society? Which bodies do we suppress? Jérôme Bel subverts conventional power structures of representation and gives the individual a chance for autonomy. Ruthlessly. Lustfully. Radically beautiful. A demanding evening that nonetheless has a lot of laughs. In Jérôme Bel’s piece, Samuel Beckett’s famous quote, “Fail again, fail better”, turns out to have a deeply funny side.

• Concept Jérôme Bel
• Assistance Maxime Kurvers
• Artistic Adviser und Company Management Rebecca Lee
• Costume design Tänzern
• Assistance for the restaging Maxime Kurvers, Dina ed Dik
• By and with professionellen und nicht-professionellen Tänzern aus Wiesbaden und der Rhein-Main-Region/ professional and non-professional dancers from Wiesbaden and Rhein-Main region

A production from R.B. Jérôme Bel in coproduction with Dance Umbrella, Theater-Works Singapore / 72–13, KunstenFestivaldesArts, Tanzquartier Wien, Nanterre- Amandiers Centre Dramatique National, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Theater Chur, TAK Theater Liechtenstein, TanzPlan Ost, Fondazione La Biennale di Venezia, Théâtre de la Ville Paris, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, BIT Teatergarasjen, La Commune Centre dramatique national d’ Aubervilliers, tanzhaus nrw and House on Fire.
With support of Culture Programme of the European Union. Thanks to Centre National de la Danse, Pantin and Ménagerie de Verre, Paris.
Supported by Institut français.
In coproduction with Tanzplattform Rhein-Main, a project of Künstlerhaus Mousonturm and Hessisches Staatsballett. Presented in cooperation with EVIM Evangelischer Verein für Innere Mission Nassau.