Troubleyn/Jan Fabre/Tony Rizzi and the Bad Habits
(BE/Frankfurt)
Drugs kept me alive
Mousonturm Saal
Performance/Choreography
- 31.03.2015, 20.00 Uhr€ 19,- / erm. € 9,-
- 01.04.2015, 8 p.m.€ 19,- / red. € 9,-, Drugs kept me alive - artist talk after the performance
Jan Fabre and Antony Rizzi share more than twenty years of close collaboration. Drugs kept me alive, which first premiered at Mousonturm in March 2013, is a piece tailor-made by Fabre for the born performer Rizzi: a monolog for a survivor. Quick-wittedly balancing over the yawning abyss. A man, who has lived life to a full, always one step ahead of the scythe of death. His break-neck speed is his secret weapon, his sense of humour a strong drug and his accomplices have illustrious names such as ecstasy, ketamine, GBH, poppers, speed, cocaine, or 2C-B, 2C-1, 2C-7. But what truly keeps him alive is his desire for intensity and ecstasy.
Text, Direction, Scenery: Jan Fabre * with: Antony Rizzi * Dramaturgy: Miet Martens * Original music: Dimitri Brusselmans * Costumes: Andrea Kränzlin * Production: Troubleyn/Jan Fabre in coproduction with Maribor 2012 – European Capital of Culture * Technical coordination: Geert Van der Auwera * Technician: Tim Thielemans * Production & Tour manager: Ilka De Wilde, Katrien Bruyneel
Biography
Jan Fabre
www.janfabre.be
Jan Fabre gehört seit Jahren unbestritten zu den vielseitigsten und innovativsten Künstlern der Gegenwart. Er arbeitet als Performancekünstler, Theatermacher, Choreograf, Opernregisseur, Dramatiker und bildender Künstler. Für Fabre ist das Theater eine allumfassende Form der Kunst, in dem Sprache, Tanz, Musik, Performance und Improvisation in einen Dialog treten – den denkbar radikalsten Bruch mit den Konventionen des zeitgenössischen Theaters vorausgesetzt!
Biography
Tony Rizzi and the Bad Habits
Antony Rizzi worked for many years at the Frankfurt Ballet with William Forsythe as well as with the avant-garde theatre director Jan Fabre. He has been creating performances for 30 years, since the age of 23 with his first work at the Boston Ballet. Besides creating for his Bad Habits and dance companies like Bayerische Staatsballet, the Royal Ballet of London and Ballet Kiel, Rizzi also creates films and polaroid collages that have been presented in various art galleries and museums including Mori Museum in Tokyo and the Kunstverein and Fotoforum Frankfurt. Rizzi is currently working on his memoirs called “So Far So Good”.