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Eastman - Guro Nagelhus Schia

Guro Nagelhus Schia

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Shell Shock, A Requiem of War

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Whether you call it shell shock or post-traumatic stress disorder, war creates serious psychological wounds. A hundred years after the outbreak of the Great War, the Belgian composer Nicholas Lens has written a dance-oratorio on this theme, using lyrics by the well-known Australian singer-songwriter, poet and rock’n’roll enfant terrible Nick Cave. In twelve poems or canti he evokes the anonymous protagonists of the war in a highly personal and fluent style : soldiers, mothers, orphans, prisoners, etc. The testimonies of these individual characters, with whom everyone can identify, make the universal call for a humane and peaceful world. The ‘choreographic directing’ of this international project is in the hands of the Belgian-Moroccan ‘choreographer of the year’ Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. This new creation by La Monnaie has been incorporated into the official calendar of the Federal Committee for the Organisation of the Commemoration of World War I.

Premiere: 24 October 2014, De Munt / La Monnaie

Choreography & direction
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music composition
Nicholas Lens
Words
Nick Cave
Musical direction
Koen Kessels
Set design
Eugenio Szwarcer
Video design
Eugenio Szwarcer
Light design
Willy Cessa
Costume design
Khanh Le Thanh
Dramaturgy
Ruth Little
Chorus master
Martino Faggiani
Dance
Aimilios Arapoglou, Damien Jalet, Jason Kittelberger, Kazutomi 'Tsuki' Kozuki, Elias Lazaridis, Johnny Lloyd, Nemo Oeghoede, Shintaro Oue, Guro Nagelhus Schia, Ira Mandela Siobhan
Live music
Claron McFadden, Sara Fulgoni, Gerald Thompson, Ed Lyon, Mark S. Doss, La Monnaie Chorus, La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra, Trinity Boys Choir
Assistant choreographer
Vebjørn Sundby
Production / tour manager
Arnout André de la Porte
Production manager
Lars Boot
Producer
De Munt / La Monnaie (Brussels)
Co-producer
Eastman
With the support of
BNP Paribas Foundation, Federal Government
Second cast
Nick Coutsier, Jonas Vandekerckhove, Patrick Williams Seebacher (TwoFace), Nicola Leahey, Oscar Ramos, Guillaume Quéau, Pol Van den Broek, Mohamed Toukabri, Laurence Servaes, Magid El-Bushra, Sébastien Droy, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Choir of the Silesian Opera
Last modified: 07 November 2018
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