Wim Vandekeybus
Fragility Laughing at Strength

Fragility Laughing at Strength This Coaching Project is booked! Applications are no more accepted! When I founded the company Ultima Vez 25 years ago, there was not a lot of exchange between performers. I did study very hard on my own, but knew little about the working process of other creators. We were guided by our intuition and did not know what the result of our research would be. Today I still strongly believe that this way of working is very productive. During this Coaching Project I will guide you through the material of Ultima Vez and will do research on new possibilities of performing together. I would also like to share how dancing is connected to acting and vice versa. How fragility laughs at strength and how failing is much more attractive on stage than showing off. Wim Vandekeybus is director, choreographer, actor and photographer. After having worked for two years with Jan Fabre, he created his own working structure Ultima Vez in 1986. His first performance "What the Body Does Not Remember" (1987) was an instant hit and changed the landscape of modern dance. Since then, Wim Vandekeybus has created more than twenty choreographies which tour worldwide. He discovered the medium of film during the realisation of his first dance films. A few years later he started writing and directing fictional short films.