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Morning Song

Maarten Vanden Abeele

Phile Deprez

Maarten Vanden Abeele

Morning Song

text & direction: Jan Lauwers
choreography: Carlotta Sagna, Jan Lauwers
music: Can, Pluramon, Fred Frith, Brise Glace, Calexico, A.
Yupanki
play: Liliane Grandiflora Viviane De Muynck
Leopold Grandiflora Mil Seghers
Lena Tijen Lawton
Leonardo Simon Versnel
Tchi Misha Downey
Harry Gonzalo Cunill
Ushi Delmore Carlotta Sagna
Eddy Eduardo Torroja

dance material: Misha Downey, Tijen Lawton, Eduardo Torroja,
Carlotta Sagna
set: Jan Lauwers en Carl Gydé
light concept: Dries Vercruysse
sound concept: André Schneider
costumes: Lot Lemm
production manager:Carl Gydé
general assistance: An Van der Donckt
technical assistance: Piet Goosen
production assistance: Els Soetaert
administrator: Christel Simons
production: Needcompany
co-production: Théâtre de la Ville (Paris)
in collaboration with: Hebbel-Theater (Berlin)

90 minutes

The premiere of Morning Song was made with support from Kaaitheater at
Brussels. We thank La Monnaie/De Munt.

Premiere: 13 January 1999, Lunatheater, Brussels

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Morning Song is the second of the two-part stage production No beauty for me there, where human life is rare.The subject of this second part is the quest for the meaning of fate and the accompanying human urge for survival. We already know that the survivors of the disaster in Nicaragua will one day dance again. There is never enough pain to destroy the primal strength to survive.

This is the real beauty of people: their animal urge to survive.
In Morning Song this theme is explored in greater depth through the story of Liliane Grandiflora’s life and family. It is a tragi-comic account of people who keep on thinking they can change their lives then die.

Eight characters take up arms against their fate, in a burlesque style. This leads to laughable situations involving what is glorious and exalted, and to a collective quest for the ‘human condition’, featuring man as the inveterate conjuror of life and artist of survival.

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Morning Song