RULE OF THREE takes as its starting point our ability to quickly switch from one impression to another. A collection of scenes echoes the fragmentary experience of reality that results from this overload of stimuli. It is a danced performance that is somewhere between a concert and a collection of short stories written with bodies, light, music, costumes, and text.
An untamed meditation that – like our times – is based on contrasts: between stillness and explosion, between precision and intuition, between heart and reason. For RULE OF THREE, Jan Martens collaborates with American producer and drummer NAH, whose music consists of live and programmed drums mixed with found sounds and manipulated samples. The three performers engage in dialogue with NAH’s eclectic musical composition on stage, pushing the sensory stimulation ever further.
For her performance in RULE OF THREE Courtney was named the ‘First heroine of La Bâtie’ 2018 by Le Temps (CH) and Female Performer of the Year 2017 by Sceneweb (FR).
No upcoming shows
09.03.2020
Teatro Calderón
Valladolid (ES)
06.03.2020
Teatros Del Canal
Madrid (ES)
05.03.2020
Teatros Del Canal
Madrid (ES)
20.12.2019
Parktheater
Eindhoven (NL)
19.12.2019
Cultuurcentrum Ter Dilft
Bornem (BE)
12.12.2019
Le Carreau
Scène Nationale Forbach (FR)
27.11.2019
La Halle Aux Grains
Scène Nationale Blois (FR)
27.10.2019
National Performing Arts Center
Taipei (TW)
26.10.2019
National Performing Arts Center
Taipei (TW)
25.10.2019
National Performing Arts Center
Taipei (TW)
24.10.2019
National Performing Arts Center
Taipei (TW)
‘In this purification rite, where the performers combine the endurance of a trail runner with the agility of a wrestler, Courtney May Robertson is breathtaking in her precision and freedom. See her on the front lines. Toes glued to the ground, she endures blows: her face contorts into a mask of terror, her body buckles, then fights back. It’s a brawl, a passage through hell, a drowning, and a rebirth.’
– Alexander Demidoff, Le Temps
“An eclectic hyperdance…In the thrilling interplay between dance and music, Martens captures the mindset of our hectic times: routinely numbed by ever-new stimuli, fragmented, channel-surfing, lacking in concentration.”
– ★★★★ Charlotte De Somviele, De Standaard
CHOREOGRAPHER Jan Martens
WITH Baptiste Cazaux / Steven Michel, Dan Mussett & Courtney May Robertson
CAST AT PREMIERE Julien Josse, Steven Michel & Courtney May Robertson
MUSIC AND PERFORMANCE NAH
COSTUME Valérie Hellebaut
LIGHTING DESIGN Jan Fedinger
DRAMATURG Greet Van Poeck
REHEARSAL DIRECTOR Anne-Lise Brevers
TECHNIQUE Michel Spang / Marie Vandecasteele
PRODUCTION GRIP
INTERNATIONAL DISTRIBUTION A Propic / Line Rousseau & Marion Gauvent
CO-PRODUCTION deSingel international art campus, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris with Festival d’Automne à Paris, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France & tanzhaus nrw
WITH SUPPORT FROM STUK Kunstencentrum & Grand Theater
WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM the Flemish government & the city of Antwerp
THANKS TO Marc Vanrunxt & Anne-Lise Brevers
SHORT STORIES FROM LYDIA DAVIS ‘Writing’ and ‘The Dog Hair’ from ‘CAN’T & WON’T’ by Lydia Davis. Copyright © 2014 by Lydia Davis. Suddenly Afraid from ‘VARIETIES OF DISTURBANCE’. Copyright © 2007 by Lydia Davis.
