BLEIB OPUS#3 on 5 and 6 June CANCELLED

alkantara festival and Teatro Maria Matos reimburse the tickets already purchased at the respective ticket offices (central ticket office or Teatro Maria Matos), upon delivery of the original tickets, until June 8th, 2008.
The performance BLEIB OPUS#3 of Michel Schweizer no longer exists. For a message from the artist:

Some stories are written in plural. BLEIB is one of them.
On stage : a philosopher, a psychanalist, an ex-legionnaire, five trainers, five belgian shepard dogs, a dancer, an actor.

« What are they doing together ? You think they would like to do something together? » asks the psychanalist. «Maybe they just would like to be a community… » says the philosopher.

Since November 2005, Michel Schweizer has been creating the conditions for an improbable temporary community to exist, based on the single condition of a personal and collective engagement on human and professional level, beyond private interests and desires.

On June 2nd 2008, Michel Schweizer and company La Coma were obliged to cancel the performances of BLEIB Opus #3, programmed on 5 and 6 June at alkantara festival in Lisbon. All conditions were in place to make the performances happen : logistical, professional, technical and financial. But the essential was missing: the community. Private vices overtook public virtue and led to the demission of a number of members of the BLEIB team, yesterday, Sunday June 1st.

A most unexpected end to an artistic, political and, above all, human adventure.

Michel SCHWEIZER