DK-BEL can look back on 20 years of professional experience in its field, which includes not only the performance of numerous stage works, but also children’s and youth projects as well as educational work at an international level. The organisation’s focus is always on developing social ties and opening up to one’s environment through art.
About the play C’est BEAU! – It’s Beautiful!
For several years now, the French company DK-BEL has been putting on performances in which dancers with and without disabilities perform together. The audience’s reaction is often simply: “That’s beautiful…”
The choreographic work “C’est BEAU! – It’s Beautiful!” by DK-BEL and 6e Sens is based on the concept of beauty according to the poet Charles Baudelaire, who combines beauty with the bizarre, the strange, chaos, pain and the fragility of living beings. “C’est BEAU!” adds the impulse of flight as a powerful symbol of optimism and unity. Based on these concepts, the piece, danced by an international group of dancers with and without disabilities, explores how beauty can form a bridge between personal, collective and even universal feelings. It is all about connection, togetherness, goodwill and mutual respect.
“C’est BEAU!”, which will also be performed as part of the 2024 Cultural Olympiad in Paris, offers the world a unique, non-conformist and emotive vision of beauty that forms a symbiosis with the places where it is performed and the personal impressions of its inhabitants.
October 2023
Under the title “CBO”, young people with and without disabilities from the Salzkammergut, Greece and France spent a week together with professional dancers from the DK-BEL company, who worked with them on dance. As part of the Erasmus+-funded youth exchange, a powerful and touching performance was created, which was performed on 28 October at JUFA Altaussee. At the same time, the dancers from DK-BEL began preparations for the piece “C’est BEAU! – It’s Beautiful!”, which will be shown in Aussee as part of the Capital of Culture 2024.
March 2024
During a second intensive research phase, dancers from DK-BEL and 6e Sens trained for “C’est BEAU! – It’s Beautiful!”. A work in progress was shown to a selected audience at the Kurhaus Bad Aussee on 15 March. The audience was enthusiastic and excited about the performances in September.
September 2024
On 13 September, the play “C’est BEAU! – It’s Beautiful!” will premiere at the Kurhaus Bad Aussee. Further dates are 14 and 15 September → Dates & Tickets
November 2024
In November 2024, a workshop for professional dancers who work or want to work artistically with people with disabilities will take place in Vienna. The workshop is free of charge for participants.
The long-term goal is to establish a network of European, inclusive cooperation, which should ideally continue beyond 2024 and be maintained in a biennial festival of inclusion. This festival is to be pursued and financed by the partners involved after 2024 and will take place every two years for three days each, initially in the Salzkammergut, in Greece and then in France.
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