Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel

ArtHouse Jersey is delighted to present the English language premiere of “Jérôme Bel”, a new work by the seminal French choreographer Jérôme Bel, whose playful, visceral and conceptual dance works since the 1990s have shaped and had one of the most significant influences on contemporary dance in Europe over the past thirty years. In recent years Jérôme Bel’s work has focused on “portraits” of dancers, working across classical ballet, modern dance and for example, a collaboration with the traditional Thai dancer Pichet Klunchun.

Here, following a recent work ‘Isadora Duncan’ which was a “danced portrait of a choreographer”, and one of the founding figures of modern dance, Jérôme Bel lends himself to his own exercise and delivers his personal account of a life in dance. Sharing his doubts, commitments, failures as well as his infatuations with wit and insight, the piece, which Bel describes as “auto-bio-choreo-graphic” articulates fragments of a life, a career and an intellectual project to reveal their common structures.

This work, first performed in 2021, and presented for two nights in the intimate studio of Greve de Lecq Barracks is performed by and in collaboration with Terry O’Connor originally from Jersey, and co-founder of one of the world’s most celebrated experimental contemporary theatre groups, Forced Entertainment.