maria matos teatro municipal | duration 1h15 | tickets 10 € / 5 € 
friday _ 30 may 21h | saturday _ 31 may 21h
in english with portuguese subtitles

Benjamin Verdonck, a physical actor, and Fumiyo Ikeda, a dramatic dancer, with producer and choreographer Alain Platel as a link between the two: it is the combination of artistic forces that speaks to the imagination. Ikeda, who has been at Rosas for almost 20 years, brought them together; Verdonck put some gut-wrenching material on the table: the book Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala, an American of Nigerian origin. Through the eyes of a child soldier somewhere in Africa, the author looks at the perversity of war. The book is written in a rudimentary English, childish and direct. Each of the two performers in Nine Finger uses their own resources to tell this story together. They do so with nothing in their hands and nothing in their pockets but great admiration and poetic mastery. Under the surface the great question bubbles: how can we, through our art, relate to the cruelty of the world?

created by fumiyo ikeda, benjamin verdonck, alain platel, anne-catherine kunz, herman sorgeloos | performed by fumiyo ikeda, benjamin verdonck
| executive production hanne van waeyenberge, johan penson | produção rosas, kvs, de munt | thanks to hildegard de vuyst, frank van dessel, willy thomas, sara jansen, an-marie lambrechts, geert opsomer, valentine kempynck, vincent dunoyer, josse de pauw, flint, anani dodji sanouvi, chrysa parkinson, hanne pleysier, jonas devos, manu devriendt, stijn, gregory brems, leen persoons, tomas desmet, samuel turpin, dennis tyfus, renzo martens, dirk verstockt, jitske vandenbussche, guy cassiers, anne teresa de keersmaeker, guy gypens | support presentation lisbon ministery of culture of the flemish community

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