Skeleton is a choreographic project developed from the exploration of our perception of the human skeleton, a perception liberated from the macabre imagery with which it is often associated and inspired by its capacity to structure and vibrate.

A man sits at a table as though about to give a conference. It is his bones that relate his message instead of his discourse. The conference table will also be the dissection table, the mortuary slab, the Maya tomb, the hill to be climbed, the ground towards which the body bends, and the road that leads to the end of life, where the body, already faltering, becomes a formless mass.

Far from macabre dancing and grotesque grimacing, Skeleton will be about literally getting down to the bone, its very substance and its strength.

Conception and choreography: Nicole Mossoux
Direction: Patrick Bonté and Nicole Mossoux
Performed by: Bernard Eylenbosch
Original Music: Thomas Turine
Costumes: Colette Huchard
Lighting design: Patrick Bonté
Techical direction: Pierre Stoffyn
Scientific advisor: Alain D’Ursel

Production: Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté, in co-production with Festival PanCreas

Duration: 35 min.

Compagnie Mossoux-Bonté develops languages that enable intimacy to be expressed and that are enriched equally by theatre, dance, puppetry, shadow theatre, music and visual art. The duo has also made several films and site specific performances. Presented in over thirty countries, their productions explore the hazy zones of awareness — the spectators’ imagination is touched by a combination of the familiar with the strange.
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Bernard Eylenbosch trained as an actor at the INSAS (Brussels) and participated in several text-based theatrical pieces as well as dance-theatre and musical theatre productions including those of Ensemble Leporello, Cie The Primitives, Ingrid von Wantoch Rekowski, Dieter Schnebel and Davis Freeman. He has also worked for television and cinema.

Thomas Turine is both a performer and a composer in the fields of electronic, electro-acoustic and instrumental music. He has collaborated with contemporary choreographers, performers and theatre directors such as Hélène Mathon, Claude Schmitz, Pierre Droulers, Isabella Soupart, Philippe Eustachon, Manuel Pereira. He juxtaposes microphones and instruments with the objects, dancers and musicians that he encounters on stage.