Little body on the wall ...

The performance

DIRECTION & TEXT
Jan Fabre

ACTOR
Wim Vandekeybus

ASSISTANT ON STAGE
Sachiyo Takahashi

ASSISTANT TO THE DIRECTOR & DRAMATURGY
Miet Martens

LIGHT CREATION
Jan Fabre

TECHNICAL SUPPORT
Stefan Alleweireldt

MUSIC
Frank Zappa, adapted by Pierre Vervloesem

PRODUCTION
Troubleyn

COPRODUCTION
deSingel, Antwerp; Kaaitheater, Brussels; Springdance; Utrecht

The film

DIRECTION & CHOREOGRAPHY
Jan Fabre, Wim Vandekeybus

FILM PRODUCTION
de Filmfabriek in collaboration with Troubleyn

EDITING
Octavio Iturbe

SOUND
Charo Calvo, Philippe Vandendriessche

GUITAR
Pierre Vervloesem

CAMERA
Philippe Guilbert

CAMERA ASSISTANT
Samuel Dravet

ELECTRO
Frank van den Eede

PRODUCTION COORDINATION
Annabel François (Troubleyn), Bavo Defurne (de Filmfabriek)

Little body on the wall… is part of Jan Fabre’s series of solo performances entitled The Four Temperaments: four evening-long solos made for and with dancers with whom Fabre has collaborated artistically in the past: Wim Vandekeybus, Renée Copraij, Marc Vanrunxt and Annamirl Van der Pluijm.

The theatre monologue that Jan Fabre wrote for Wim Vandekeybus is about the relation between a male dancer and a photographer: a metaphor for the relation between a performer and the public. The central idea is that we only become aware of our body from the looks that other people give it.

For this monologue Fabre was inspired by the Dutch painter Rob Scholte, the French performance artist Orlan and interviews with Wim Vandekeybus himself.