P R O D U C T I O N S

ANY ATTEMPT WILL END IN CRUSHED BODIES AND SHATTERED BONES

any attempt will end in crushes bodies and shattered bones

Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble

Choreography: Jan Martens

Cast: Ty Boomershine, Truus Bronkhorst, Jim Buskens, Baptiste Cazaux, Zoë Chungong, Piet Defrancq, Naomi Gibson, Kimmy Ligtvoet, Cherish Menzo, Steven Michel, Gesine Moog, Dan Mussett, Wolf Overmeire, Tim Persent, Courtney May Robertson, Laura Vanborm, Loeka Willems
Understudies: Pierre Bastin, Georgia Boddez, Wannes Labath, Zora Westbroek

Artistic Assistance: Anne-Lise Brevers
Lighting Design: Jan Fedinger
Costume Design: Cédric Charlier
Assistance Costume Design: Alexandra Sebbag and Thibault Kuhn

Production: GRIP
In collaboration with the Dance On Ensemble

International Distribution: A Propic / Line Rousseau and Marion Gauvent
Co-Production: deSingel international arts campus (Antwerp, BE), Theater Freiburg (DE), Sadler’s Wells (London, UK), Julidans (Amsterdam, NL), Festival d’Avignon (FR), Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France (FR), Norrlandsoperan (Umeå, SE), La Bâtie – Festival de Genève & l’ADC – Association pour la Danse Contemporaine Genève (CH), tanzhaus nrw (Düsseldorf, DE), Le Parvis Scène Nationale Tarbes-Pyrénéés (Tarbes, FR), La Danse en grande forme (CNDC – Angers, Malandain Ballet Biarritz, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux – La Rochelle, CCN de Caen en Normandie, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, CCN de Nantes, CCN d’Orléans, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Collectif Fair-e / CCN de Rennes et de Bretagne, Le Gymnase | CDCN Roubaix | Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg and La Place de La Danse – CDCN Toulouse Occitanie) and Perpodium
With support of: De Grote Post (Ostend, BE), Charleroi Danse (BE), CCNO – Centre Chorégraphique National d’Orléans icw Théâtre d’Orléans (FR) and December Dance (Concertgebouw and CC Brugge)
With financial support of: the Flemish Government, the city of Antwerp, Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and Cronos Invest

Premiere: 18 July 2021, Festival d`Avignon

‘Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars and molecules all come in communities. The singular cannot really exist.’ – Paula Gunn Allen in Grandmothers of the Light: A Medicine Woman’s Sourcebook

With any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones, Jan Martens is for the first time fully turning his attention to the main stage. A production about the power that lies in being out of step, performed by a seventeen-strong, atypical corps de ballet made up of unique personalities.

The heterogeneous group of dancers spans several generations, the youngest being 16 and the eldest 69, with significant differences between them in terms of track record and technical background. In any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones, they seek their own voice within the dance and beyond, looking for an idiom that fits them like a glove. One by one they claim their place on stage, without cutting off the others for all that. A horizontal exercise in giving each other the necessary space, while being careful not to steal the limelight.

any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones is a rich performance that does not hesitate to seek out the ecstatic. In times of extreme polarization, this group sets social dogmas aside to recognize and embrace a range of distinct identities. Being uninhibitedly themselves – in both life and art – with the stage as their ideological testing ground. They are supported by a soundtrack that consists of atypical protest songs from different ages – from Henryk Gorecki via Max Roach & Abbey Lincoln to Kae Tempest.

coming performances:
past performances:
  • 17. May 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Les gémeaux | Sceaux
  • 16. May 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Les gémeaux | Sceaux
  • 13. May 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Théâtre de la Ville | Paris
  • 12. May 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Théâtre de la Ville | Paris
  • 11. May 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Théâtre de la Ville | Paris
  • 06. May 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Cankarjev dom | Ljbuljana
  • 15. April 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Dansens hus | Oslo
  • 14. April 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Dansens hus | Oslo
  • 07. April 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Théâtre auditorium de Poitiers | Poitiers
  • 04. April 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Équinox scène nationale de Châteauroux | Châteauroux
  • 01. April 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Scène nationale d' Albi | Albi
  • 29. March 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Le lieu unique | Nantes (CANCELLED)
  • 28. March 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Le lieu unique | Nantes (CANCELLED)
  • 21. March 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Le phénix. Scène nationale | Valenciennes
  • 17. March 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Comédie de Caen | Caen
  • 16. March 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Comédie de Caen | Caen
  • 13. March 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Le bateau feu | Dunkirk
  • 10. March 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Maison de la Culture | Amiens
  • 11. February 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Théâtre de Liège | Liège
  • 08. February 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | STUK | Leuven
  • 07. February 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | STUK | Leuven
  • 04. February 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Teatro Central | Sevilla
  • 03. February 2023, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Teatro Central | Sevilla
  • 10. December 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | December Dance | Bruges
  • 12. November 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Tanzfestival Rhein-Main |  Darmstadt
  • 08. November 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Festival euro-scene | Schauspiel Leipzig | Leipzig
  • 21. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Nowy Teatr | Warsaw
  • 20. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Nowy Teatr | Warsaw
  • 15. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | tnba – théâtre national de  bordeaux en aquitaine & la manufacture | Bordeaux
  • 14. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | tnba – théâtre national de  bordeaux en aquitaine & la manufacture | Bordeaux
  • 12. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Maison de la danse | Lyon
  • 11. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Maison de la danse | Lyon
  • 07. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | La Comédie de Clermont, Clermont-Ferrand
  • 06. October 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | La Comédie de Clermont, Clermont-Ferrand
  • 29. September 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | romaeuropa festival, Rome
  • 28. September 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | romaeuropa festival, Rome
  • 25. September 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Belgrad BITEF Festival
  • 09. September 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Het TheaterFestival | NTGent Schouwburg
  • 08. September 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Het TheaterFestival | NTGent Schouwburg
  • 10. June 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Theater Rotterdam
  • 28. May 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Dublin Dance Festival
  • 27. May 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Dublin Dance Festival
  • 25. May 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Sadler´s Wells
  • 24. May 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Sadler´s Wells
  • 20. March 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
  • 19. March 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
  • 11. March 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Pole-Sud, Strasbourg
  • 10. March 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Pole-Sud, Strasbourg
  • 05. March 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
  • 04. March 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | tanzhaus nrw, Düsseldorf
  • 05. February 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | norrlandsoperan, Umeå (canceled due to the Coronarvirus)
  • 04. February 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | norrlandsoperan, Umeå (canceled due to the Coronarvirus)
  • 02. February 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Dansens Hus, Stockholm (canceled due to the Coronarvirus)
  • 01. February 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Dansens Hus, Stockholm (canceled due to the Coronarvirus)
  • 29. January 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Dansens Hus, Oslo (canceled due to the Coronarvirus)
  • 28. January 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Dansens Hus, Oslo (canceled due to the Coronarvirus)
  • 19. January 2022, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | STUK, Leuven (canceled due to the Coronarvirus)
  • 11. December 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Concertgebouw, Bruges
  • 10. December 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Concertgebouw, Bruges
  • 16. November 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Cndc, Angers
  • 28. October 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Spring Festival, Utrecht
  • 27. October 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | De Warande, Turnhout
  • 23. October 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | De Singel, Antwerp
  • 22. October 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | De Singel, Antwerp
  • 20. October 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Charlerois Danse, Charlerois
  • 14. October 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | La Place de la Danse, Toulouse
  • 13. October 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | La Place de la Danse, Toulouse
  • 18. September 2021, any attempt will end in crushes bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Teatro Municipal do Porto, Porto
  • 12. September 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | any attempt will end in crushed bodies
  • 11. September 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | any attempt will end in crushed bodies
  • 10. September 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | any attempt will end in crushed bodies
  • 06. September 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | het TheaterFestival, Antwerp (Film screening)
  • 29. August 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | International Theater Amsterdam (ita)
  • 28. August 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones | Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | International Theater Amsterdam (ita)
  • 25. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon
  • 24. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon
  • 23. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon
  • 22. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon
  • 21. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon
  • 20. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon
  • 19. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon
  • 18. July 2021, any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones - Jan Martens & Dance On Ensemble | Festival d`Avignon