Jérôme Bel by Jérôme Bel

One of the most important international dance artists of the past 30 years, French choreographer Jérôme Bel presents a career retrospective he calls “auto-bio-choreo-graphy” at The Place, London’s centre for contemporary dance, on 15 & 16 April. 

For ecological reasons, Bel no longer travels by plane; instead, UK-based performer Terry O’Connor of Forced Entertainment plays him, challenging the boundaries between art and interpretation, performance and archive. A blend of filmed dance documentation, monologue, and live restaging, this unexpected evening is both a survey of past creation and a gesture of constant reinvention.