Ultima Vez / Wim Vandekeybus - Go Figure Out Yourself

(c) Danny Willems

Maybe itΆs a cabaret of questions with no answers
Maybe itΆs all about µyouΆ
Maybe you should come alone
Maybe youΆll find your true love at the end
Maybe itΆs a trip to the dark side
Maybe itΆs theaterΆs very last funeral ritual
Maybe itΆs a maze of mirrors
Maybe itΆs not for you
Maybe youΆll cry
Maybe itΆll remind you that you were born naked
Maybe you should µfear notΆ
Maybe boredom is the enemy to fight
Maybe itΆs all a lie and youΆll like that
Maybe itΆs like another drug
Maybe it changes you with no way back
Maybe finally we are at your feet and you decide
Maybe you donΆt even reach the end
Maybe itΆs time to abandon yourself
Maybe others canΆt describe it
Maybe you should just Go Figure Out Yourself

Go Figure Out Yourself is an encounter with the audience in an unprepared space. Five distinct characters take you far beyond the protective walls of the theatre. They show you a place where you can give shape to your own thoughts – simply by watching and listening to others. Go Figure Out Yourself is an all-embracing expedition. To a driving soundtrack of words, music and dance, you are invited to surrender to an unpredictable and exciting trail. And to the power of the eye. From close up. Go Figure Out Yourself examines the boundaries between audience and performers. By making simple moves freely in the space, you become part of a collective happening. Go Figure Out Yourself is a performance that leaves you with more questions than answers. The slowness of the many contrasts with the speed of the individual. The total is more than the sum of the parts. Everything is as it is.

 

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Direction, Choreography, Scenography: Wim Vandekeybus
Created with and performed by: Sadé Alleyne, Maria Kolegova, Hugh Stanier, Kit King, Tim Bogaerts
Dramaturgy: Aïa Gabriëls
Movement Αssistant: Germán Jauregui

Lighting Design: Davy Deschepper, Wim Vandekeybus
Costume Design: Isabelle Lhoas
Assisted by: Isabelle De Cannière
Technical Coordination: Davy Deschepper
Sound Engineer: Bram Moriau
Stage Manager: Tom de With
Producer: Ultima Vez
Co-producer:  Les Brigittines (Brussels)

With the support of  Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government, Casa Kafka Pictures Tax Shelter empowered by Belfius

Ultima Vez is supported by the Flemish Authorities & the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels Capital Region.

Wim Vandekeybus, founder of Ultima Vez, belongs to the pioneers of contemporary performative and visual arts developing his artistic work for more than 30 years with a strong base in Brussels and Flanders. Choreographer, photographer and filmmaker, he started his career with an international success, the dance play What the Body Does Not Remember, which earned him a Bessie Award (New York Dance and Performance Award) for its innovation. He has been collaborating with artists from a whole range of disciplines with Ultima Vez nevertheless remaining true to its own movement idiom.  In 2012 he received the Keizer Karel prize from the Province of East Flanders and a year later he and Ultima Vez became the 6th laureate of the Evens Arts Prize. 2015 sees the screening of Galloping Mind, his first full-length film. In 2016, Ultima Vez published the long-awaited book The Rage of Staging which is a visual trip through the most powerful images from VandekeybusΆ repertoire and a quest for the ideas and themes that inspire him.