In Spite of Wishing and Wanting
CREDITS REVIVAL 2016
DIRECTION, CHOREOGRAPHY, SCENOGRAPHY
Wim Vandekeybus
ORIGINAL MUSIC & SOUNDSCAPE
David Byrne
"FUZZY FREAKY" REMIX
DJ Food
PERFORMED BY
Rob Hayden, Eddie Oroyan, Yassin Mrabtifi, Guilhem Chatir, Grégoire Malandain, Luke Jessop, Luke Murphy, Flavio D'Andrea, Knut Vikström Precht, Cheng-An Wu, Baldo Ruiz, Wim Vandekeybus, Giovanni Scarcella, Nuhacet Guerra Segura, Alexandros Anastasiadis
CHOREOGRAPHIC ASSISTANTS
Iñaki Azpillaga, German Jauregui
ARTISTIC ASSISTANT
Greet Van Poeck
STYLIST
Isabelle Lhoas ASSISTED BY Isabelle De Cannière
TECHNICAL COORDINATION
Davy Deschepper
LIGHT
Francis Gahide, Davy Deschepper
SOUND
Bram Moriau
STAGE MANAGER
Tom de With
PRODUCTION
Ultima Vez
COPRODUCTION
KVS (Brussels, BE)
ADDITIONAL CREDITS ORIGINAL PERFORMANCE 1999
CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY
Nordine Benchorf, Saïd Gharbi, Benoît Gob, German Jauregui Allue, Juha-Pekka Marsalo, Igor Paszkiewicz, Ali Salmi, Giovanni Scarcella, Piotr Torzawa Giro, Gavin Webber, Wim Vandekeybus, Christophe Olry
ALSO PERFORMED BY
Max Cuccaro, Jordi Galí Melendez
ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR
Georg Weinand
MOVEMENT ASSISTANT
Iñaki Azpillaga
COSTUMES
Lies Van Assche & Isabelle Lhoas
COSTUME ASSISTANT
Els Mommaerts
LIGHT CREATION
Richard Joukovsky & Wim Vandekeybus
LIGHT ENGINEER
Francis Gahide
STAGE MANAGER
Christophe Olry
SOUND ENGINEER
Benjamin Dandoy
COPRODUCTION
Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Festival d'estiú Barcelona Grec '99, Luzerntanz, KVS
FILM THE LAST WORDS
DIRECTION
Wim Vandekeybus
SCRIPT
Wim Vandekeybus & Jan De Coster
BASED ON THE SHORT STORIES BY
Julio Cortázar 'Cuento sin Moraleja' & 'Acefalia'
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Patrick Otten
EDITING
Rudi Maerten
SOUND DESIGN
Charo Calvo
MUSIC DURING CREDITS
David Byrne
CAST
John Campbell, Alessandra Fabbri, Max Cuccaro, Mary Herbert, Nordine Benchorf, Stefano Questorio, Ali Salmi, Benoît Gob, Igor Paszkiewiez, Germán Jauregui Allue, Juha-Pekka Marsalo, Saïd Gharbi, Giovanni Scarcella, Piotr Torzawa Giro, Gavin Webber, Charo Calvo, Angelo Dello Spedale, Toni d’Antonio, Lilia Vieira Nestre, Antonio Grossi, Max Pairon, Mathilde Pairon, Judith Vindevogel, Sandrine La Roche, François Brice, Frédéric Gibilaro, Nicola Schössler, Dominique Van Steerthegem, Carméla Locantore, Vincent Scarito, Jan De Coster, Christophe Orly, Lorenza Di Calogero, Ana Stegnar, Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre, Ezra Eeman, Ophelia Van Campenhout, Wim Vandekeybus
COSTUME DESIGNER
Lies Van Assche
DÉCOR
Christophe Olry
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Anja Daelemans
PRODUCER
Eric Kint
PRODUCTION
Itinera Films
COPRODUCTION
Ultima Vez
FUNDED BY
the Flemish Film Fund
In 1999, In Spite of Wishing and Wanting caused a huge stir. For the first time, Wim Vandekeybus created a performance not about the chemistry between men and women, but a primal desire in a world of men alone – fierce, wild, naive and playful. Spellbinding footage and dance sequences, supported by David Byrne’s sensual soundtrack, flow into monologues about fear, a desire for security and the magic of sleep. In 2016 a completely new cast takes on the challenge of this world hit.
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The fear of being possessed by something or someone also has its reverse side: the longing to change into something or someone else. Fear and desire circle around the same core. This desire to transform is the central theme of ‘In Spite of Wishing and Wanting’.
Two short stories, one by Julio Cortazar and one by Paul Bowles, have been haunting Wim Vandekeybus for a while now. In both short stories the focus is on the movement between the familiar and the foreign, a movement that can never be resolved. These two short stories inspired Wim Vandekeybus while shooting the short film that is part of the performance.
