Bel Canto / Black Monk
Cie 13 / Rosa Mei have three productions available for UK touring in 2007:- Bel Canto for the stage, Black Monk for site specific locations and the original score for 'Bel Canto' created by the Cie 13 Musicians (more) available as a stand alone music performance.
BEL CANTO
JUNE 2006 PREMIERED - GDYNIA, POLAND
'There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in proportion' - Francis Bacon
Bel Canto - Italian for beautiful singing. Combine fast musical scales with some wicked head spins and furious footwork. Then add funky urban beats to opera arias from Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti, et al. In 'Bel Canto', Cie 13/Rosa Mei creates an innovative mix of opera, beatbox, rap and percussive instrumentals that plays with the mad skillz of Belgian and Polish b-boy champions. The bodies become luminescent particles, rapidly shifting points in space, that define abstract, architectural forms. The dialogue between classical and contemporary urban idioms leads to radical, quicksilver poetry. High precision phrases and mercurial encounters make up the strange beauty of Bel Canto.
Inspired by the psychological mood paintings of Edvard Munch, Rosa Mei structures 'Bel Canto' as a series of poems on love, life and death. A celebration of communal ritual, an endless scream passing through nature, eulogies and lullabies creating a landscape of the soul. The original score for 'Bel Canto' created by the Cie 13 musicians - beatboxers, Polish, Congolese and French rappers, a jazz instrumentalist and a South African opera diva - puts a new spin on arias by bel canto composers Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti (with a bit of Bach and Brahms for good measure) by adding funk beats to deconstruct the classical idiom. A human pulse for a modern passion play.
Director/choreographer: Rosa Mei
Beatbox/Rap: 'Fab-Faya' Bilomba
Beatbox/Jazz : Teddy Guilbaud
Polish rap & song: Oscar Mienandi
Lyric Soprano: Donita Volkwijn
Dancers: Arkadiusz 'Maly' Franczak, Dariusz 'Duracell' Kryla, Milan Labouiss,
Francis Manayala Mabidi, Radoslaw 'Tao' Peciak, Angela Taboszczak
BLACK MONK
Who is the Black Monk? Is he a symbol of madness, the ghost of Rasputin or the soul of the three lonely Dominican monks who once lived in these cloisters? Rosa Mei & Cie 13 present a psychological tale told through ballet, breakdance, beatbox and opera in a haunted cathedral and monastery where a shrouded stranger plays the organ and the spirits of mad monks linger. The path through the old sanctuary give clues to the mysterious figure of the Black Monk - his supernatural spirit and his link to dementia.
Partake of our daily bread, visit the garden of earthly delights and flock to the vespers along a path filled with vertiginous dance and radical, urban beats mixed with Gregorian chants. "Sic transit gloria mundi."
Director/choreographer: Rosa Mei
Music: Fabrice 'Fab-Faya' Bilomba, 'B-Flow' Arty, Teddy Guilbaud, Gaspard Herblot, Veronique Lievens, Vincent Lievens
Dancers: Champion Bakomba,Izumi Fujii, Anais Garrigues, Milan Labouiss, Anais Garrigues, Milan Labouiss, Stefan Leoni, Patrick Martin, Rosa Mei
Technical Director: Vincent Lievens
Graffiti Artists: Vincent 'Nefast' Schmit, Robert 'Bayo' Arnaud
The original score for 'Bel Canto' created by the Cie 13 musicians - beatboxers, Polish, Congolese and French rappers, a jazz instrumentalist and a South African opera diva - puts a new spin on arias by bel canto composers Rossini, Puccini, Donizetti (with a bit of Bach and Brahms for good measure) by adding funk beats to deconstruct the classical idiom. Available as a stand alone music performance. Visit www.cie13.be to hear more!
Available for touring, residencies and workshops (music and dance) in Spring and Autumn 2007.
For a DVD of past work, national and international booking and information contact: Fiona Mason Tel: 00 44(0)1206 825600 email
For more company information please visit www.cie13.be
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