music theatre in flanders - Muziekcentrum Vlaanderen
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formances themselves, which usually depart from orig<strong>in</strong>al texts<br />
and <strong>music</strong>.<br />
Artistic leader Bo Spaenc sees de kolonie mt as an environment<br />
where young <strong>music</strong> <strong>theatre</strong> makers can explore and cultivate their<br />
artistic territory. This nest<strong>in</strong>g ground idea is, <strong>in</strong> fact, an extension<br />
of the company’s residencies. Young makers are stimulated not<br />
only on an artistic level; they also receive guidance to learn all<br />
about audience recruitment, network<strong>in</strong>g and market<strong>in</strong>g.<br />
de Munt/la Monnaie<br />
www.demunt.be<br />
De Munt is a federal cultural <strong>in</strong>stitution. In 1963 De Munt was<br />
officially named National Opera. A major turn<strong>in</strong>g po<strong>in</strong>t <strong>in</strong> the history<br />
of the Royal Monnaie was the appo<strong>in</strong>tment <strong>in</strong> 1981 of Gerard<br />
Mortier as general director. Dur<strong>in</strong>g his directorate, not only the<br />
build<strong>in</strong>g was thoroughly modernized; he also artistically reorganized<br />
the Monnaie’s choir and symphonic orchestra and employed<br />
new and young staff. All this, and Mortier’s choice of a more personal<br />
and peculiar repertoire, turned the Monnaie <strong>in</strong>to an opera<br />
of <strong>in</strong>ternational stature and renown.<br />
After Mortier left for the Salzburger Festspiele <strong>in</strong> 1992, Bernard<br />
Foccroulle took over. The same year, he appo<strong>in</strong>ted Anne Teresa<br />
De Keersmaeker’s Rosas company as the Monnaie’s company <strong>in</strong><br />
residence. Together, they founded a new <strong>in</strong>ternational school for<br />
contemporary dance, P.A.R.T.S., as successor to Maurice Béjart’s<br />
Mudra School.<br />
In June 2007, after fifteen years as its artistic leader, Bernard<br />
Foccroulle bade the Monnaie farewell. He was succeeded by<br />
Peter De Caluwe, the Dutch Opera’s former artistic director. De<br />
Caluwe opened the doors to a new generation of artists. Today,<br />
the Monnaie is populated not only by today’s <strong>in</strong>ternational household<br />
names, but also by young talent: conductors, directors and<br />
visual artists for baroque, lyrical as well as symphonic genres.<br />
The traditional repertoire rema<strong>in</strong>s the sp<strong>in</strong>e of De Caluwe’s programme,<br />
but he always makes room for baroque opera, work by<br />
20 th -century and contemporary composers.<br />
Furthermore, De Caluwe breaks down the conventional approach<br />
for concerts and recitals by <strong>in</strong>troduc<strong>in</strong>g visual or scenic elements.<br />
Dance still takes an important place <strong>in</strong> the programme.<br />
The special relation with Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker is ma<strong>in</strong>ta<strong>in</strong>ed,<br />
but De Caluwe also <strong>in</strong>vites new choreographers, such as<br />
Akram Khan, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Sasha Waltz as well as<br />
<strong>in</strong>ternational dance companies. Each year, he <strong>in</strong>vites stage productions<br />
by directors such as Ivo Van Hove, Romeo Castellucci<br />
and Krzysztof Warlikowski to be shown at the Monnaie.<br />
Theater de spiegel<br />
www.despiegel.com<br />
As a <strong>music</strong> <strong>theatre</strong> company, Theater De Spiegel explores the<br />
common grounds between <strong>music</strong>, figures, objects, image, sound<br />
and voice to develop a particular narrative idiom for general audiences.<br />
Theater De Spiegel has a small creative and production team.<br />
For each production, soul mates from a diversity of <strong>music</strong>al<br />
genres and artistic environments are <strong>in</strong>vited. S<strong>in</strong>ce three years,<br />
Theater De Spiegel has been focus<strong>in</strong>g on a new target group: lit-<br />
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