For this approach to Le Sacre du printemps the choice was to apprehend the church as sacred space. According to the religion theorist Mircea Eliade, the sacred space bears witness to a heterogeneous vision of the world, where sacred and profane interact with each other, the sacred transcending the profane by giving it meaning and orientation.

Making a performance in a church is, to a certain extent, letting the profane world enter into the sacred space. What are the implications of such a gesture? What if this performance is Le Sacre du printemps, an icon of modernism, originally celebrating the wild forces of nature, paganism and virginal eroticism? And what if this music is played on the church’s organ, the Christian instrument
par excellence ?

The performance will face the traditions of church, dance and music. It will try to find its way through the cultural ambivalences given by the situation by wandering between indifference and irreverence, between fidelity and iconoclasm, between derision and devotion, between performance and the ordinary.
Sacre is a commission of Springdance and Klankleurenfestival.

concept&choreography david weber-krebs
organ berry van berkum, dirk luymes
performance floor van leeuwen, irina müller, sarah vanhee
thanks to minna tiikkainnen, jan fedinger, katrin bombe

performance dates

2006
klankleurenfestival 10.10.2006

2007
springdance festival 20, 21.04.2006