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Hand it to the finger ballet
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A dance production with a difference - the moves in 'Kiss and Cry' are created by two hands.
The show is a magical miniture ballet where fingers entwine and flirt to tell the story.
Directed by renowned Belgian film maker Jaco van Dormael the multi-media project pushes the boundary between dance, theatre and cinema.
SOUNDBITE: Jaco Van Dormael, Director, saying (English):
"It's a story of an older woman who remembers when she was 12 years old she touched on the train the hand of a boy but she doesn't remember nor the face of the boy nor his name. She just remembers his hands. And so all her life she was looking for the hands of the man so there are five love stories, like the five fingers on the hand. And each love story is told only with hands.''
Although the set of each scene is never bigger than a kitchen table, clever usage of light and domestic appliances such as a hairdryer and plastic foil allowed van Dormael to create a sandy beach, an ocean and a starry night.
The lead roles are performed by van Dormael's wife, ballet dancer and choreagrapher Michele Anne de Mey - and her long term dancing partner, Gregory Grosjean - he found just using his hands to dance was quite a different experience.
SOUNDBITE: Gregory Grosjean Dancer, saying (English):
"Normally, you have a big sensation of space. It's really and you can, you find your stability by moving your entire body and you throw the energy normally with normal dance and here, the energy is really concentrated and really, really tiny inside of you. So it's really different."
'Kiss and Cry', produced by Charleroi Dances, has drawn raving reviews and standing ovations while on tour in Belgium.
The show is now in Canada and is set to tour the Middle East and Europe.
Sarah Mills, Reuters
The show is a magical miniture ballet where fingers entwine and flirt to tell the story.
Directed by renowned Belgian film maker Jaco van Dormael the multi-media project pushes the boundary between dance, theatre and cinema.
SOUNDBITE: Jaco Van Dormael, Director, saying (English):
"It's a story of an older woman who remembers when she was 12 years old she touched on the train the hand of a boy but she doesn't remember nor the face of the boy nor his name. She just remembers his hands. And so all her life she was looking for the hands of the man so there are five love stories, like the five fingers on the hand. And each love story is told only with hands.''
Although the set of each scene is never bigger than a kitchen table, clever usage of light and domestic appliances such as a hairdryer and plastic foil allowed van Dormael to create a sandy beach, an ocean and a starry night.
The lead roles are performed by van Dormael's wife, ballet dancer and choreagrapher Michele Anne de Mey - and her long term dancing partner, Gregory Grosjean - he found just using his hands to dance was quite a different experience.
SOUNDBITE: Gregory Grosjean Dancer, saying (English):
"Normally, you have a big sensation of space. It's really and you can, you find your stability by moving your entire body and you throw the energy normally with normal dance and here, the energy is really concentrated and really, really tiny inside of you. So it's really different."
'Kiss and Cry', produced by Charleroi Dances, has drawn raving reviews and standing ovations while on tour in Belgium.
The show is now in Canada and is set to tour the Middle East and Europe.
Sarah Mills, Reuters
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