TROUBLEYN
Antwerp, Belgium
ANOTHER SLEEPY DUSTY DELTA DAY
| text, stage design, directed by | JAN FABRE |
| choreography | JAN FABRE, IVANA JOZIĆ |
| performed by | IVANA JOZIĆ |
| dramaturgy and assistant director | MIET MARTENS |
| costume design | LOUISE ASSOMO |
| light design | JAN FABRE, HARRY COLE |
| technical coordination | Harry Cole |
| production/tour management | Sophie Vanden Broeck |
| production | Troubleyn/Jan Fabre |
| coproduction | Festival d’Avignon, Philadelphia Live Arts Festival, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia, ZKM (Zagreb Youth Theatre) & World Theatre Festival |
| Soundscape | Tom Tiest, DomXh |
| Recordings at Ghost Town (Hemiksem,B) by Geert Vanbever | |
| Musicians | Tom Tiest (guitar) Filip Vandebril (double) bass), Deemonkeyjazz (drum), Andrew Claes (tenor sax), Vincent Brijs (baritone sax), Charlotte Saelemakers (violin), Jennifer De Keersmaeker (violin), Astrid Bossuyt (violin) |
| Song | ‘Ode to Billy Joe’ by Gentry, Bobbie (C/A) |
| Northridge Music Co / Universal-MCA Music Holland BV | |
| Jan Fabre is “artist in residence” at deSingel | |
| Troubleyn/Jan Fabre is cultural ambassador of UNESCO-IHE | |
| With support of the Government of Flanders and the City of Antwerp | |
Performance time: 55 minutes
Jan Fabre created Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day, a new theatre/dance solo, for Croatian performer Ivana Jozić. The title is taken from the legendary 1967 hit Ode to Billy Joe by Bobbie Gentry. Speculation is rife about the open storyline in this mysterious country song, even today.
Ode to Billy Joe tells the tale of a suicide. A teenage girl is having dinner with her family. Her mother announces that Billy Joe jumped off a bridge to his death. While the family members dish up memories of Billy Joe, discuss day-to-day worries and pass the food, the mother happens to notice that her daughter has lost her appetite. Gradually, and against this backdrop, curiosity about the untold part of the story gets the upper hand. What did the young teenage girl and Billy Joe throw off the bridge together? Were they secretly seeing one another?
Jan Fabre opted to write Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved. The outcome is a truly personal text, which emphasises the right to dispose of one's own life, specifically the end of one's life. Fabre introduces autobiographical elements into the play, evoking and questioning memories of the death of his own mother. A precise and choreographically intense work of Ivana Jozić glorifies the act of plunging into the unknown and the disappearance of body in a matter like an immanent poetical source.
Jan Fabre opted to write Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day in the form of a letter from a man to his beloved. The outcome is a truly personal text, which emphasises the right to dispose of one's own life, specifically the end of one's life. Fabre introduces autobiographical elements into the play, evoking and questioning memories of the death of his own mother. A precise and choreographically intense work of Ivana Jozić glorifies the act of plunging into the unknown and the disappearance of body in a matter like an immanent poetical source.
Jan Fabre
Jan Fabre (born in 1958 in Antwerp) is known as one of the most innovative and versatile artists of today. He is a performer, theatre director, choreographer, opera director, writer and visual artist. He is an artist who expands horizons of every genre he decides to do. In the late 70s, as a very young artist, Jan Fabre encited interest with his 'money performances': he lit stacks of bills and drew with their ashes. In 1982 he shook the modern institution of theatre with the performance 'theatre as it was to be expected and foreseen'. Two years later he confirmed his innovativeness with a show “The Power of Theatrical Madness“. In the meantime he has become one of the most versatile artists on the international scene. He breaks through the existing theatre codes by introducing elements of 'real time, real action', creates what some call 'living installations' and explores radical choreographical and performative possibilities in order to introduce some freshness into the performing arts and dance. Body in all shapes and forms is the subject of his interest. At the World Theatre Festival in 2006 he has presented Angel of Death, a dance and theatre solo, performed by Ivana Jozic.
Ivana Jozic
(b. Zagreb/Croatia, 1975). The Croatian Ivana Jozic studied dance at the School for Classical Ballet in Zagreb after which she was a member of the Croatian National Ballet Company. From 1993 till 1997 she was a student of the London Contemporary Dance School. Immediately after graduating, she participated in several independent projects in London.
Between 1998 and 2001 Jozic was involved in the creation and performances of ‘Aria Spinta’ of the company Déjà Donné.
In 2003 Jozic started to work with Jan Fabre, performing in Je Suis Sang (Conte de fées médiéval) and The Crying Body in 2004. In 2003 the Festival d'Avignon commissioned Jan Fabre to create the solo performance Angel of Death for her. Ivana Jozic plays as well in Tannhäuser (2004), History of Tears (2005), Requiem für eine Metamorhose (2007).
In 2006 and 2007 she participated in two theater pieces of Croatian director Senka Bulic, ‘Zlocin na kozjem otoku’ of Ugo Betti and ‘Hanjo’ after Yukio Mishima.
In 2008 Jan Fabre creates a second solo performance for Ivana Jozic, ‘Another Sleepy Dusty Delta Day’. Later this year she will also perform in his new creation ‘Orgy of Tolerance’.
