Inasmuch as Life is borrowed...

THE PERFORMANCE

CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION
Wim Vandekeybus

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Marc Ribot

CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY
Laura Arís Alvarez, Max Cuccaro, Jordi Galí Meléndez, Benoît Gob, Liv Hanne Haugen, Germán Jauregui Allue, Mala Kline, Juha-Pekka Marsalo, Ali Salmi, Wim Vandekeybus, Gavin Webber, Piotr Torzawa Giro

ALSO PERFORMED BY
Wim Vandekeybus

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGY
Georg Weinand

CHOREOGRAPHICAL ASSISTANT
Iñaki Azpillaga

SCENOGRAPHY
Wim Vandekeybus

SET RESEARCH & COORDINATION
Christophe Olry

LIGHT CREATION
Richard Joukovsky, Wim Vandekeybus, Francis Gahide

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
Christophe Olry

STAGE MANAGER
Christophe Olry

LIGHT ENGINEER
Francis Gahide

SOUND ENGINEER
Benjamin Dandoy

ADDITIONAL SOUNDS & VOICE TREATMENTS
Charo Calvo

COSTUMES
Isabelle Lhoas

COSTUME ASSISTANT
Els Mommaerts

STARS
Marianne Olry

BACKDROP
Johan Daenen

INTERNS
Stefanie Vanhecke & Ann Verlinden

PRODUCTION
Ultima Vez

COPRODUCTION
deSingel, Antwerp; Festival of Flandres Brussels - Europe; Festival de Marseille; Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; Théâtre de la Ville, Paris

Ultima Vez was subsidised by the Flemish Community - Administration for Culture – the National Lottery and the Flemish community Commission of the Brussels' Capital Region

Ultima Vez wasguest dance company at Teatro Comunale di Ferrara, Italy, and was structurally coproduced by the Festival of Flanders Brussels-Europe

Poem ‘Conjuring in Heaven' by Ted Hughes, with the kind permission of Faber and Faber Limited.

THE MUSIC

COMPOSITIONS & GUITAR
Marc Ribot

PRODUCER
JD Foster

ENGINEER
Eddie Sperri, Patrick Derivaz

CLARINET & BASS CLARINET
Ned Rothenberg

VIOLIN & VIOLA
Jill Jaffee

BASS
Brad Jones, Chris Wood

PERCUSSION
Sim Cain, Christine Bard

PIANO & PUMP ORGAN
Ted Reichman, Anthony Coleman

MIXING & EDITING
Pierre Vervloesem

RECORDED AT
Sorcerer Sound, New York, NY.

'INASMUCH...' - THE FILM

DIRECTOR
Wim Vandekeybus

PRODUCTION
Ultima Vez & Quasi Modo

SCRIPT WRITERS
Wim Vandekeybus, Jan De Coster

ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Guy Goossens

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Lieven Van Baelen

SOUND TRACK
Charo Calvo

GUITAR
Marc Ribot

FILM EDITORS
Rudi Maerten, Jan De Coster

ART DIRECTOR & COSTUME DESIGNER
Isabelle Lhoas

SOUND ENGINEER
Dan Van Bever

POSTPRODUCTION
ACE Editing Facilities

ACTORS
Damiaan De Schrijver, Ina Geerts, Miel Seghers, José Verheire, Jeff Mercelis, Max Pairon, Arto Mangelschots, Oihana Azpillaga De Coster,Tasio Azpillaga De Coster, Mauro Kirikou Verbiest, Mary Herbert, Mauricia Cantero

“Inasmuch as Life is borrowed….” is a dance performance with 11 male and female dancers/actors. The musical score is composed by Marc Ribot: mainly known for his work with Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, the Lounge Lizards, the Jazz Passengers ,John Zorn and his own ‘Los Cubanos Postizos’. The performance also includes a short film directed by Wim Vandekeybus and written in collaboration with Jan De Coster.

‘Nature’s indifference’ and how humans deal with it will be a dramaturgical theme for the creation. Beside this, as a second area of the relationship between Nature and Humanity, the two most important ‘natural events’ in everyone’s life – birth and death – are concerned and will be thematized in the performance on stage as well as in the film which is an integral part of the performance.