© Steve Eastwood

In Männer Tanz, Jean-Guillaume Weis sets out to put the spotlight on an all-male cast for whom dance, by intention or by coincidence, has become a vocation. The choreographer seeks to portray his performers and their personalities in all their complexity and diversity. The staging of their experience is a quest for the very essence of their art and their identity. Whatever their vantage point- they may be autodidacts, their skill may define their future, their experience may be anecdotal or the pursuit of a lifelong dream – they all have a lot to say, to experience and to realize.

The project is an interdisciplinary one, fusing dance, theatre and video documentaries; it is surprising and comforting at once. While maintaining some of the mystery that tends to surround the lives of male dancers, the piece also reveals an essential aspect of those lives: the shock ensuing from the encounter of performers of different origin, from different schools of movement or with similar experiences will transport audiences into the lives of dancers and into the male experience. Männer Tanz offers a glimpse of how their knowledge and experience enable these men to contribute to the current artistic landscape. Will they surprise us? Will they renew our appetite for dance? Will they make us see dance as a natural expression of who we are? Jean-Guillaume Weis ensures that, once more, the cast devote themselves entirely to their
performance and to their very raison d’être – that artform called dance.

THÉÂTRES DE LA VILLE DE LUXEMBOURG

JEAN-GUILLAUME WEIS

MÄNNER TANZ

www.theatres.lu

JEAN-GUILLAUME WEIS

MÄNNER TANZ

CRÉATION 2012

16 & 21.06. 2012 8pm