Jérôme Bel
The Show Must Go On
Thu, Oct 20 & Fri, Oct 21 at 8pm
Sat, Oct 22 at 2 & 8pm
A landmark of contemporary performance, the Bessie-award-winning The Show Must Go On is dance at its most mischievous. A DJ plays chart-topping pop songs to a group of twenty dancers—trained and untrained—who sing, stand, and dance along. With perfect comic timing, Bel’s pared down choreography delivers surprises while it questions the mechanisms of performance.
Curtain Chat with Jérôme Bel will follow the 2pm performance on Sat, Oct 22.
Tickets from $30
Tickets also available at: Joyce Box Office / 212-691-9740 / joyce.org
Co-presented by The Joyce Theater.
Presented on the occasion of Crossing the Line Festival 2016 by the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, and The Museum of Modern Art.
Support for The Joyce’s presentation of international dance provided by the R. Britton Fisher and Family Gift for International Dance. Supported by Institut français and Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York.
“There is no doubt that I am right on the fringes of the choreographic field — and I would say field, not dance — but my task is to see where I can enlarge that terrain while remaining within it.”
Jérôme Bel explores the relationship between choreography and popular culture, and dancer and spectator, often using humor as a device to break the formality of a theatre setting. Part of a generation of choreographers who rose to prominence in the mid-1990s, Bel’s work questions both art and contemporary dance. Crossing the Line 2016 will feature a focus on French choreographer Jérôme Bel, with presentations of some of his major performances.