In De Studio/De Cinema Antwerpen op donderdag 16 maart – Chantal Akerman maakte met JEANNE DIELMAN een verbazingwekkend en overtuigend filmexperiment dat al decennialang wordt geanalyseerd en besproken. De film werd in december 2022 uitgeroepen tot Beste Film Allertijden door Sight and Sound. Voor het eerst in het 70-jarige bestaan van de Sight and Sound-poll … Continued
In De Studio / De Cinema Antwerp on Sunday February 19 and 26 at 17.50 —— PIERRE (1976) The first feature film by Jan Decorte covers a day and a night in the lone life of a Brussels municipal clerk. Pierre lives with his mother in an antiquated house in a run-down working-class area. Every … Continued
Chantal Akerman’s ‘Jeanne Dielman’ is declared N° 1. in the prestigious Sight and Sound Poll, which happens once a decade. For the first time in its 70-year history, an esteemed international poll of film experts has ranked a film by a woman as the greatest of all time. Jan Decorte plays the son, Sylvain Dielman.
Premiere ‘Jamais je n’oublierai la mort’ at Cinema RITCS – Wednesday, October 12 at 19.30 A film poem by Charles Dhondt, based on the famous theatre performance by Jan Decorte, Sigrid Vinks, Oumar Dicko and Ika Schwander.
In 1982, Belgian actor and director Jan Decorte is invited to Holland Festival with his adaptation of two remarkable texts from Heiner Müller, titled “mauser & de hamletmachine”. It is time for political theatre to redefine itself, states Decorte, to question its forms and contents. In this excerpt Decorte is being interviewed, alternated with some … Continued
The John Hails Society. Mauro Pawlowski & Eric Thielemans play bass & drums to the great voices of Jan Decorte, Josse De Pauw, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe and Lisah Adeaga. Recorded at a totally formalized, yet even more totally spontaneous musically studio session at Finster Studio in Antwerp during some lockdown. https://thielemanseric.bandcamp.com/album/the-john-hails-society
During Bye Bye Kaai – The long Toast on 18 June in Kaaitheater Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks will perform “BURGAUDINE”
Monday 7/3 VOLKSROOM (Bergensesteenweg 33B – 1070 Anderlecht) is hosting a concert by fifteen different artists. JAN DECORTE & SIGRID VINKS will perform ‘Folies à Deux’
French choreographer Boris Charmatz makes full use of the hall of Brussels North Station and the Ancien Tri Postal, the old sorting office in Charleroi, according to one of dance’s essential elements: the duet. Around 1900, Arthur Schnitzler wrote the extraordinary text Reigen/La Ronde. The protocol of La Ronde, which functions on the basis of … Continued
Filmpremière 28 september Cinema ZED – Hasselt Een huilende man heeft het levenloze lichaam van een vrouw in zijn armen… het begin van één grote trip met verbazingwekkende personages, hopperiaanse taferelen en vooral veel muziek. Vier curatoren stelden vier gelegenheidsbands samen die de opdracht kregen om een unieke creatie te maken. De vier composities zijn … Continued
Jan Decorte, Sigrid Vinks en Kris Van Trier spelen met het script op tafel deel 2 uit Decortes Aids-trilogie (1987-1989). Snel, grappig, poëtisch en persoonlijk. Volgend de noden van de tijd. 6 augustus 17:00 – Middelheim 21, Comp. Marius
On the 12th of May, 2021, Avila will celebrate its one-year anniversary. For this festive occasion the platform digitised two films Hedda Gabler (1978) and Pierre (1977), by theatre maker Jan Decorte. Together with his television production Gombrowicz: Incidents, Adventures (1977), these films will be made available online to a worldwide audience. In addition, Avila is giving away 250 free coupons … Continued
Bloet is looking for a bold and beautiful young person to create a new performance ‘BLOOD LTD by Bloet’ in the beginning of november in Kaaitheater. Auditions on the 5th and the 6th of May in the Kaaistudio’s (81 Rue Notre Dame du Sommeil, 1000 Bruxelles). Please prepare a little performance (max 3 min) to … Continued
La soirée du 12 mars sur France 5. Dès 20h55 dans Passage des arts, retrouvez Boris Charmatz face au Grand Palais, le film documentaire de Sophie Kovess-Brun et Claire Duguet qui révèle les coulisses de ce projet inouï. Il en a suivi toutes les étapes et éclaire la démarche artistique du chorégraphe. Suivi à 21h50 dans … Continued
Sigrid Vinks invited by Boris Charmatz. Saturday 16 January 2021 – full day La Ronde – danced duets from dawn to dusk “Arthur Schnitzler wrote the extraordinary La Ronde, about couples bound to one another, at the same time that the Grand Palais was being built. In 1900 the venue opened and Schnitzler self-published his … Continued
For his 70th birthday Jan Decorte was interviewed in Humo. Photos by Stephan Vanfleteren.
Thursday 21 november 2019 – 20:30 KASKcinema Godshuizenlaan 4, 9000 Gent From the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, Belgian theatre director, author and actor Jan Decorte (1950) made two feature films and a few television documentaries for Belgian public broadcasting. For its fifth Seuls film night on Thursday 21 November 2019, Sabzian will show … Continued
Jan Decorte en Sigrid Vinks spelen samen met Benjamin Abel Meirgaeghe op Pukkelpop “Das Ende = The Beginning”. De performance gaat door op zaterdag 17 augustus om 20u in the Vall-EY, een nieuwe site van Pukkelpop waar experimentele muziek, kunst en performance centraal staan.
The Flemisch Literary Foundation, Kunstenpunt and Dutch Performing Arts promote a selection of playwrights. Jan Decorte
On Tuesday 5 February 2019 Jan Decorte and Sigrid Vinks received the Ultima General Cultural Merit during a festive event in the AB in Brussels.
Extra performances of Hamlet 0.2 in Pumpenhaus Münster on the 9 and 10 of November 2018. We will play in German and English.
Aansluitend aan de première van Stand Down op 13 oktober 2017 wordt in het Kaaitheater het langverwachte Jan Decorte-boek voorgesteld. Dit kleurrijke fresco over leven en werk van een radicale theaterkunstenaar kan onmogelijk ontbreken in je boekenkast. Jan Decorte is nu bijna een halve eeuw actief als theaterkunstenaar. Hij is auteur, regisseur, acteur, scenograaf… Stond … Continued
In ‘Helden van deze tijd’ droeg Martin Pulanski het hoofdstuk ‘Tien dagen die mijn leven deden wankelen’ op aan Jan Decorte en Sigrid Vinks, na het zien van Ne Swarte…… http://hoochiekoochie.skynetblogs.be/archive/2016/12/16/helden-van-deze-tijd-8681108.html
‘Geboeid/Prometheus’ van Jan Decorte werd in literair Nederland enthousiast onthaald. Op Moors Magazine verscheen: “Het meest verbijsterende boek dat ik in tijden in handen heb gekregen is deze tekst van theatermaker Jan Decorte – het is een, hoe zullen we het zeggen, “bewerking” van de tragedie Prometheus van Aischylos, maar een volstrekt anarchistische bewerking van … Continued
Chantal Akerman died on October 5th. Jan Decorte played in the films ‘Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles’ and ‘Toute une nuit’. On http://www.canvas.be/cultuur/chantal-akerman Jan Decorte interviews Chantal Akerman about ‘Golden Eighties’.
Jan Decorte & Sigrid Vinks in Tout le Baz’ Art d’ Arno, on Arte Belgique 27 September
Werkstattgespräch V with Jan Decorte – Presentation: Anke Engelke – Jahrhunderthalle Bochum – 20. September at 11:00 am
Jan Decorte plays ‘the good father’ in MOX, a short film by the audio-visual collective GOGOLPLEX
Extra performances on the 3 and 4 of July in the Münchner Kammerspiele
Bloet has been asked to perform ‘Much Dance’ at the 2015 Ruhrtriennale Performances 28,29 and 30 of August 2015 in PACT Zollverein – Essen