Scratching the Inner Fields

CHOREOGRAPHY & DIRECTION
Wim Vandekeybus

CREATED WITH & PERFORMED BY
Laura Arís Alvarez, Marie-Hélène Bos, Carole Karemera, Iona Kewney, Natalia Labiano, Melina Mastrotanasi, Céline Perroud

ALSO PERFORMED BY
Sandra Delgadillo, Lieve Meeussen

ORIGINAL MUSIC
Eavesdropper

SOUND CONCEPT & LIVE ELECTRONICS
Josh Martin

TEXTS
Peter Verhelst (some texts from the book ‘Zwellend Fruit' were adapted for the performance by Peter Verhelst)

DRAMATURGY
Inne Goris

COSTUME DESIGNER
Isabelle Lhoas

SCENOGRAPHY
Wim Vandekeybus

SET RESEARCH
Christophe Olry & Isabelle Lhoas

PREPARATIONAL IMPROVISATIONS
Laura Arís Alvarez

MOVEMENT ASSISTANCE
Germán Jauregui Allue

TECHNICAL COORDINATION
Christophe Olry

LIGHT CREATION
Francis Gahide & Wim Vandekeybus

LIGHT ENGINEER
Ralf Nonn

SOUND ENGINEER
Benjamin Dandoy

PROPS & STAGEMANAGEMENT
Christophe Olry

COSTUME ASSISTANT
Els Mommaerts

SET REALIZATION
De Muur

TRANSLATION TEXTS
Peter Verhelst Fred Bollaerts & Manuel Munoz for Multilingua (Spanish),

Barbara Fasting (English), Monique Nagielkopf (French)

INTERNS
Ciska De Ruyver & Sarah Moens

PRODUCTION
Ultima Vez

COPRODUCTION
Théâtre de la Ville, Paris; Teatro Comunale di Ferrara; Flanders Festival Brussels - Europe

Ultima Vez was guest dance company at Teatro Comunale di Ferrara

Ultima vez was subsidised by the Flemish Community and the National Lottery

Ultima Vez received the support of the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels Capital Region and the Flemish Minister of Culture, Youth, Sports, Brussels' Affairs and Development Cooperation.

Ultima Vez thanks Tal Agam, Louise De Neef, Erki De Vries, Maurice Lhoas, Edurne Rubio, Ted Stoffer, and everybody at Théâtre de la Ville and Les Abbesses in Paris

After an all-male cast in ‘In Spite of Wishing and Wanting’ (1999), Wim Vandekeybus worked with an all-female cast for Scratching the Inner Fields.

The nearly completely renewed company is comprised of five dancers and two actrices. Once again, dance, text and music form the inherent parts of the performance.

For the text material there has been a close collaboration with the Flemish writer Peter Verhelst, who reworked a number of stories from his ‘fairytale novel’ Zwellend Fruit. The original music has been composed by Yves De Mey, alias Eavesdropper. Finally, Wim Vandekeybus also has also worked with the German sound designer Josh Martin for the sound concept of the piece.

Scratching the Inner Fields_Trailer 1 from Laura Aris Alvarez on Vimeo.