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House Of The Sleeping Beauties

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House of the Sleeping Beauties is an opera directed by Guy Cassiers, composed by Kris Defoort and choreographed by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. The novel The House of the Sleeping Beauties is written by Japanese author and Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata. The book recounts the visits by the old Mister Eguchi to a strange, tender brothel, where older men can spend the night beside the warm bodies of sedated, very young girls. It is a story about goodbyes, old age and death.

Working closely with dancer Kaori Ito on the choreography, Cherkaoui imagines for Cassiers' scenography three different nights in which the old man sees the girl sleeping. The first night Kaori behaves very virgin-like in a huge vertical dress. During the second night she's suspended in a cloudy dress of red and pink roses, and during the last night she moves as a spider with hardly any sheet to cover her body with.

Premiere: 08 May 2009, De Munt / La Monnaie

Director
Guy Cassiers
Choreography
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music composition
Kris Defoort
Set design
Enrico Bagnoli, Arjen Klerkx
Dance
Dirk Roofthooft, Katelijne Verbeke, Kaori Ito
Live music
Asko|Schönberg, Barbara Hannigan, Omar Ebrahim, Susanne Duwe, Alice Foccroule, Susanne Hawkins, Els Mondelaers
Musical direction
Patrick Davin
Dramaturgy
Marianne Van Kerkhoven, Corien Baart, Erwin Jans, Natascha Schulte, Nienke Scholts, Marie Roofthooft
Costume design
Tim Van Steenbergen
Light design
Enrico Bagnoli
Video design
Arjen Klerkx
Producer
LOD (Ghent), Het Toneelhuis (Antwerp), De Munt / La Monnaie (Brussels)
Co-producer
Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, Asko|Schönberg (Amsterdam), Musica - festival international des musiques d’aujourd’hui de Strasbourg, Operadagen Rotterdam
Words
Guy Cassiers, Kris Defoort, Marianne Van Kerkhoven, Yasunari Kawabata
Co-producer
La Filature Scène Nationale (Mulhouse)
Last modified: 19 February 2019
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