Mémoires d'Oubliettes

Over het werk

“Wat herinneren we ons? Wat willen we vergeten?” - Jiří Kylián

Jiří Kyliáns beeldschone Mémoires d’Oubliettes (2009) was het laatste werk dat hij creëerde voor NDT. Met nostalgische geluiden en gefluister verwijst dit indringende werk naar Kyliáns kenmerkende stijl en poëtische bewegingstaal, vol ongrijpbare emoties.

In Mémoires d’Oubliettes onderzoekt hij hoe het geheugen werkt: wat we vergeten, wat achterblijft en hoe de tijd ons beeld van de werkelijkheid beïnvloedt. Om dit gekoesterde werk na al die jaren opnieuw te mogen dansen betekent erg veel voor ons. Het voelt als een geschenk en we hopen dat je er net zo van zult genieten als wij.

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Credits

Choreography: Jiří Kylián
Music: Dirk Haubrich (new composition)
Fragmenten uit Charles Ives: 'The Unanswered Question en Samuel Beckett: Worstward Ho'
Lighting design: Kees Tjebbes
Set design: Yoko Seyama (concept Jiří Kylián)
Video design: Joke Visser
Costume design: Jason Akira Somma
NDT rehearsal directors: Tamako Akiyama

Computerized projection: Tatsuo Unemi, Daniel Bisig
Voices: Sabine Kupferberg, Jiří Kylián
Staged by: César Faria Fernandes & Lorraine Blouin
Duration: 28 minuten
Premiere date: 28 oktober 2009
Premiere location: Lucent Danstheater, Den Haag

Originele cast 2009

Valentina Scaglia, Allan Falieri, Natalia Horecna, Menghan Lou, Aurélie Cayla, Kenta Kojiri

The renewed version in 2025 of Mémoires d’Oubliettes was made possible in part by Ammodo.

Surimu Fukushi about 'Mémoires d’Oubliettes'

“I’m happy to dance a role originally created with Kenta Kojiri. Watching him perform when I was a ballet student sparked my interest in contemporary dance, so this opportunity feels especially meaningful.

I find it both interesting and challenging to move through memories while being present in the moment. There are memories of choreography, rehearsals, physical memories held in my body, and experiences from my entire life.
These can create anticipation and sometimes even lead me into imagined futures.
At the same time, there’s the present moment — body sensations, my dance partner, sound, space, imagery, and the presence of a live audience.
I’m looking forward to experiencing all of this and sharing these slices of time with you.”

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Rehearsals Mémoires d’Oubliettes - Jiří Kylián

Sophie Whittome about 'Mémoires d’Oubliettes'

“During the process of learning and interpreting this work, I have thought primarily of time.

This work, to me, is physical poetry. It uses the language of the subconscious to rummage through old and unborn remembrances. In response, I cannot provide anything definitive, but can only unearth several questions and hunches:

I think it is the human condition to oscillate between forgetting and remembering the brutal and clean nature of time.

Time moves quietly and obliterates that which is in her wake. Our small efforts can change the rate at which this occurs, but she is the steady, equalising winner. We rage and fury and sing and love in the face of this fact.

We are sometimes aware of this fact and sometimes we are not.
We are sometimes freed by this fact and sometimes we are not.

In our efforts to remember and be remembered— carve marks into earth, make noise while we can, hone our crafts— are we valiant or pitiful? Both?”

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