Speak low if you speak love ...
For Wim Vandekeybus love is perhaps the most intangible and capricious of all our inner states of mind: it moves mountains, and creates immeasurable heights and depths. It gives strength, but causes devastating pain when it turns against you. Love inspires poetry: it is exalted and cursed.
Following the captivating soundtrack in nieuwZwart (2009), Wim Vandekeybus is once again collaborating with musician Mauro Pawlowski. This time, classical stories will be the inspiration for songs written by Mauro and his compagnons and performed by the charismatic South African singer Tutu Puoane. Ultima Vez performers and more classically-trained dancers influence one another. Speak low if you speak love isn’t an opera, nor a musical in the usual sense of the word, but a stirring combination of experimental music and the classical tradition.
Wim Vandekeybus:
“ Mauro is a master of rhythm, soul and virtuosity. His music is intriguing, daring and fearless. It goes straight to your belly and overwhelms your consciousness.”
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DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY, SCENOGRAPHY
Wim Vandekeybus
CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY
Jamil Attar, Livia Balazova, Chloé Beillevaire, David Ledger, Tomislav English, Nuhacet Guerra Segura, Sandra Geco Mercky, Maria Kolegova
ALSO PERFORMED BY
Diego Sanou
ORIGINAL MUSIC (LIVE)
Mauro Pawlowski, Elko Blijweert, Jeroen Stevens, Tutu Puoane
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT & DRAMATURGE
Greet Van Poeck
MOVEMENT ASSISTANTS
Iñaki Azpillaga, Máté Mészáros
STYLIST
Isabelle Lhoas ASSISTED BY Isabelle De Cannière
LIGHTING DESIGN
Davy Deschepper, Wim Vandekeybus
SOUND DESIGN
Bram Moriau, Antoine Delagoutte
STAGE MANAGER
Tom de With
SCENOGRAPHIC ADVICE
Isabelle Lhoas, Davy Deschepper
COSTUMES STUDIO
Lieve Meeussen
TECHNICAL COORDINATION
Davy Deschepper
PRODUCTION Ultima Vez (Brussels, BE)
CO-PRODUCTION Foundation Mons 2015 European Capital of Culture, KVS (Brussels, BE), Le manège.mons (Mons, BE), Festival de Marseille (Marseille, FR)
WITH THE SUPPORT FROM desingel internationale Kunstcampus (Antwerp, BE)