Wim Vandekeybus evokes a dramatic effect by juxtaposing plastic movement, music and scenography. Thus, according to one critic, the performance entitled What the Body Does Not Remember (1987) was distinguished by “a brutal conflict of dance and music, by a…
The amazing debut of Wim Vandekeybus and Ultima Vez in 1987 stunned the world of dance at the time. Vandekeybus and composers Thierry de Mey and Peter Vermeersch received the prestigious Bessie Award in New York for this “brutal confrontation…
Here After is a cinematographic adaptation of the performance Puur, presented at the Festival of Avignon 2005 in the beautiful setting of the Quarry of Boulbon. Flowing between fiction and dance, Here After mixes excerpts of the trashy but beautiful…
This video contains an overview of choreographer and filmmaker Wim Vandekeybus career with dance films and short fiction films, including many extras and featuring original compositions by David Byrne, Thierry De Mey, David Eugene Edwards, Marc Ribot and Peter Vermeersch.…
