Ask someone to jump and you’ll see their true face, said the American photographer Philippe Halsman. What is the true face of dance in these uncertain times? What would we like to show, what would we like to see? The Dog Days Are Over shows eight dancers that give in to one physical act: the jump. A repetitive exhaustion, that will prove the dancers to be nothing more than performers, at the service of… yes, what exactly? A critical performance about the thin line between art and tricks.

Genre: Dance

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Crew

By: Jan Martens

With: Cherish Menzo, Nelle Hens, Piet Defrancq, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Steven Michel, Julien Josse, Laura Vanborm & Naomi Gibson and/or Morgane Ribbens, Ilse Ghekiere, Victor Dumont & Connor Schumacher

Light Design: Jan Fedinger

Dramaturgy: Renée Copraij

Technics: Michel Spang

Production: Jan&ickamsterdam

Coproduction: Frascati Producties, Spring Performing Arts Festival, Dansbrabant, La Briqueterie Cdc Du Val-de-marne, Tanzhaus Nrw And Takt Dommelhof

With Support Of: Workspace Brussels And Wp Zimmer

International Sales: Line Rousseau, A Propic

Financial Support By: Flemish Authorities And Performing Arts Fund Nl

Thank You Dansateliers And Conny Janssen Danst

Press quotes

“Dog Days dismantles the mechanisms of theatre and the desire for entertainment, to re-claim the stage as a place of encounter between human and human.” De Standaard

“A literally breath-taking dance that makes the spectator an embarrassed voyeur, witness of so much willingly suffering. Yet at the same time all that jumping makes up a clear statement about the raging chaos with which we rush through a more and more superficial life.” knack.be

 “Jan Martens conjures a mesmerizing choreography of nothing but jump strength and geometry.” De Volkskrant