It’s summer, so it’s Avignon again - the great international rendez-vous for the performing arts.
The Flemish contribution, which has for years been the biggest after the French, will be led by the director Guy Cassiers, who recently scored high with Wagner’s Das Rheingold at La Scala in Milan.
In the Provence he is directing an ambitious theatre production of Robert Musil’s unfinished opus magnum, The Man without Qualities.
The choreographers Alain Platel and Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker will be there too. Platel is putting on Out of Context and Gardenia and De Keersmaeker the world premiere of En attendant, a dance performance to fourteenth century polyphonic music. In 1992 De Keersmaeker was still at the Cour d’Honneur of the Palais des Papes, now she’s dancing in the Cloître des Célestins with its famous centuries-old plane trees as part of the scenery.
Meanwhile, in the Off programme, Ensemble Leporello will entertain the people in the street with their giant puppet Leporellone. The group will also perform two extra theatre productions inside.
The Dutch choreographer Anouk van Dijk (picture) will be present for the first time. With the German director Falk Richter, she created Trust: her own dancers will be joined on stage by those of the Schaubühne Berlin.
www.festival-avignon.com, until 27 July 2010.
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