One for the monkeys
Afterwords: Hans Van den Broeck & Les Ballets C de la B, Lac DeS Singes
 
  Author(s): Jeroen Peeters
  First published in:  derStandard.at and ImPulsTanz.com, 23 July 2002
 
  ‘Lac DeS Singes’ appears to be a well-chosen title – if this show is intelligible at all, then on the level of the apes. So I'd say:

ou ououou ouou
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ouou ouou ouououou ourrrrch

ouou ououou ou
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ou ouou
ououououououououourrrrrrrrrchchchch
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I'd have prefered ‘Lac des Cygnes’, don't know though what that would have sounded like.
 
 
  Contextual Note:

This text is part of the project Afterwords, curated by Jeroen Peeters for the festival ImPulsTanz Vienna in summer 2002. Every night, three critics in residence shared their impressions and thoughts on the performances immediately after having seen them, in an act of instantaneous writing. During the process of writing, these comments were projected in the theatre lobby and later that night made available on the websites http://www.impulstanz.com and http://derstandard.at.
A selection of the texts by Jeroen Peeters is available on Sarma, in a slightly edited version, sometimes with a postscript. Two essays elucidate the project Afterwords and reflect on its poetical and political implications. To retrieve the material, search under: ‘Afterwords’.
 
©Jeroen Peeters