Confronting traditional notions of performance, France??™s Jerome Bel returns to Dance Theater Workshop with Pichet Klunchen and myself, a witty theatrical documentary of an intellectual encounter...

Confronting traditional notions of performance, France??™s Jerome Bel returns to Dance Theater Workshop with Pichet Klunchen and myself, a witty theatrical documentary of an intellectual encounter between two men. Pichet Klunchen and myself stages the meeting between traditional Thai dancer Pichet Klunchen and conceptual French choreographer Jerome Bel. Through a lively mixture of physical demonstration and spirited verbal debate, Jerome and Pichet??™s lucid, humorous quest for understanding one another despite the abyssal cultural gap dividing them reminds us why contemporary art is worth caring about in the first place.

Post-Performance Talk Nov 7 with Sara Nash

Jerome Bel's Veronique Doisneau will also be shown on Nov 18 as a part of Dance After Choreography: The French Aftershock.

Veronique Doisneau
(2004, 32 minutes)

Never a star, rarely a soloist, Paris Opera Ballet dancer Veronique Doisneau, age 41, is about to retire after a career of dancing in the background as a corps de ballet member. On the final night of her career, she is at long last alone onstage, in front of a huge audience. With a humorous and moving mixture of spoken text and physical demonstration, Doisneau performs her life??™s history as a dancer.