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Before starting the audition, I want to say a few things.

I don't know if you read carefully the audition

announcement. You know that it's going to... I was talking in the announcement

about work on nudity.

You have to know that it's a very important thing that you have to be

comfortable with it.

Because, in fact, we plan to make a performance where the 11

dancers are going to be nude during the whole performance.

Voilà.

And so, yes, I present to you Magda, who's going to give you the class this

morning. And for some of you, tomorrow morning, too.

And David is my assistant on this project.

Enjoy your day.

The last thing that happened was that he, with his blue pants, with his blue

pants and his blue shoes...

I will give the names from the ones that are going to continue the audition.

Peter, the voice.

Robin.

Robin. Robin, huh?

Miguel.

Panos. Yes.

Laurent. Yes.

Nicolas. Yes.

Gustavo. Yes.

And Henri.

And thank you for the others.

I could, look, Sunday night, I could ask Antares also how it goes.

Because I'm, yeah, I just wanted to be able to do both.

Now they overlap completely.

Let's do it normal.

That's what I was going to say.

Today we're going to think about it and then...

I find it very aesthetically pleasing when I watch people dance, they open

up and show sides of them that they usually don't show.

And you get to see new things.

So guys, I'm going to eliminate three people now.

It's really for the comfort of my work to do it.

So I'm sorry for Calogero.

Renaud, I'm sorry, but it will be for another time.

And Benoît as well.

I'm sorry, but that's it.

I have to finish now.

I thank you for coming anyway.

So,

let's go like that, I'll explain a little to the others what we're going to

Is it possible to go up from there, from where you are now, to go up?

Stop. Can we try like this one?

So the two couples face each other.

And some people like we're separating between.

Yeah, and then the one under. No, no, no. Can you manage guys to stay on your

legs? Because it's only the one on top that's touching.

So you need to be really connected.

Okay, okay guys, it's okay, it's okay, it's fine

Est -ce qu 'on veut voir encore autre chose?

I'm not going to select today.

I want everybody to come back because we have the feeling that we have to see

more, to be honest.

Okay.

Tomorrow, we are going to work in the afternoon. We are going to work most of

the time naked.

You have to know that. I have to see how it's working. Voilà. Okay.

That's all.

So, I mean, I rest well this evening.

We see each other tomorrow. Okay.

Questions?

The camera is going to be tomorrow, so... Yes.

I'm going to explain what this camera is about, etc., etc.

Okay.

We are making a... First of all, we still don't have the budget to make it,

we would like to make a documentary that's going from the beginning of a

production, which means the auditions, to the premiere.

And so it's a full artistic project.

So I'm telling you that you know that it's not for other

purposes than that.

Is that satisfying?

Just because if you're going to work naked tomorrow and there is already

cameras, it's going to be uncomfortable.

Ah, yeah.

Yes.

I mean, I don't know the space yet, so I have to feel comfortable, and then I

don't know where it's going to be presented in the end.

Normally, I don't have a problem with the digital stage, but it's also live,

it's being recorded, so it's different.

What are you going to do with the material? Well, that's very clear. It's

price of the video.

Yeah. So, I mean, if I'm...

I'm not in the world, I'm here to do an audition.

So it's like, okay, I will show it everywhere.

Like this, you have my image naked.

You know, that feeling.

Can you give us one day to be naked without camera

and from the next?

Yes. And we can do it in the workshop and then you don't come. Yeah, that's

a good deal.

It's okay for me if you don't come tomorrow.

For me, it's okay. Can you do it that way? Is that a good deal?

Yeah? Okay. Well, guys, thank you for today.

Okay. And enjoy the evening.

Can the people take a seat?

There are enough. I think there are enough sheets.

I just want you to put it over your head. You know, like

the ghost we play when you're a small kid.

Like this.

You all have it over your head.

You form a group, but a little bit more in space.

A little bit more spacey.

With a little bit more air between you.

And one, you can listen to the thing, it's okay, you don't have to watch me, I

will explain it. So, here we are.

And one of you, peut -être qu 'on peut dire

un nom, on va les appeler, we will call you by name.

And we start with, what's here a component that in fact don't see a

Voilà.

And when I tell one of you, you will come in front of the group to

start to give birth.

Is that, everybody understands?

Like giving birth. Giving birth, like a woman that gives birth.

You can always, and when you are giving birth, you just sit down, you lay down,

and the next will come, and will pass.

So for example, watch, just watch, Gustavo, and I say Gustavo, Gustavo is

front with here, he's going to give birth, and then he's going to lay down.

Next one, comes, whatever position, Gustavo up, before

Gustavo, and he gives birth too.

Okay, boom, and then the other one, comes and gives birth, he's giving

and goes down. Okay, that's the principle.

So everybody has a different birth.

thank you guys it was nice okay thank you thank you so nice exercise

Robert.

Thanks for coming.

It's really tough and good what you do.

There is no question about that, but I have to make really sharp choices, okay?

Robin, Miguel

and Panos are not going to continue, unfortunately,

okay? But thank you very much for coming.

Thank you very much for coming.

And the others, I will continue to say a few words to you, so wait a little bit.

Ok? That's it.

Thank you, thank you very much, thank you very much.

Some of you will be in a condition of weakness, and that can be a

physical weakness, it can be also a psychological weakness, it can be a

sickness, it can be a handicap, it can be whatever,

but that you are weak.

Keep that!

Keep that!

It's not violent, it's calm.

See?

No?

That's good.

That's good.

Just when you just passed.

At the level of the plateau, that's good.

It's a dangerous moment it's a dangerous moment so we we have to be

Aware of that, I would like to ask a lot effort. It's still only three days and

we will have the ensemble of the things.

But still, I mean, the last, the largest, we say in Dutch that the last

are always the heaviest moments in the time of creation. And we are in that.

It's not, when I say that it's not aggressive, it's not like a...

pushing you down or whatever.

I mean, it's not all in that sense that I say the things.

We will watch.

We will have a talk.

And then we will try another.

Okay? That's just a setting. It will be filled with friends.

Okay?

For us, it's helpful to know that from the very beginning, what you're

why we're doing that. Because at the moment, it's like, oh we all get

in a group and we go over there and we look over there because Valentin's by

himself and it's obvious that he's going to do a solo and then we all go to him

and then we all go over there because we're about to start something else it

feels really like there's no there's no emotion in what I'm doing there that

takes me somewhere so that's why I feel like I'm lacking anything that's taking

me somewhere if that makes sense

The devil, you know, so I mean, in what you do, find also something that is a

little bit weird.

Otherwise, I see just nice, interesting postures, you know.

Without you, David, when you, this leg that's up, can it become like something

that's really aggressive?

Yeah, voila.

Voila.

Yeah, but don't break your back. Don't break your back. Don't do it 20 times

also. Okay?

Fine.

Is this better?

We will see when everything is happening. I cannot judge like that.

It's when everything is going that I see if it's working.

Let's do it again?

Attention. And there we go. We leave.

Yes.

Stand straight, Peter. Stand straight. Peter, stand straight.

I want to see faces behind that.

Okay.

Becoming a little bit better already.

Yeah.

Continue, huh? Continue.

I mean, it's data. There is no life.

What do you think, when we stand after this one, like we finish and then

we start the real devil?

Right after, because... That before the devil, yes, why not?

Because, like... Yes, I agree on that. Yes,

I agree on that.

That he said that this one with the eyes up, the head up, is the good thing to

do before the little devil. Like right before. Yeah. But the thing is, now I'm

not at my place for the... Yeah, but we will space it.

We will have to move and then to do this.

Have you done your part?

Yeah. Oh, shit.

The water?

Huh? Eric.

Okay.

Are you okay, Peter?

Okay.

With the last dance?

Peter?

Or what's before?

Okay.

Are you blocked?

Yes, I think so.

Take a little break.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, so let's go for it from the beginning.

Let's go nude and see where we get.

Let's go.

No, he's asleep, look.

I'm going to call Mark Fenton. I'd like to have an osteo, but having an osteo on

Friday night, it's like... It's just not possible.

For a blocked back? Are you going to give me a cortisone cure?

There's one that makes me very sick.

Okay.

C 'est parti, c 'est parti.

Thank you for watching.

And now, go!

Anyway, energetically wise, today was really, I don't know how you felt it,

for me it was really like, okay, well, it's Monday, we are going for the first

time through, but, I mean, you have to know that this performance needs 150 %

energy, because otherwise it's taxed, you know, it's

going down.

I want to ask you something that I was already busy with last week.

I know we started this piece with the possession, with the ritual, we had the

video, we had a lot of input.

But what I struggle with now is what is my whole trajectory?

Why are 11 guys going through the ritual?

Maybe we have a common point, like we want to be liberated from our manhood.

Well,

I will tell you already a few things.

First of all, the first 15 minutes when you are under the veil, it's your

time to meditate how you are going to be there in the second part.

While you do that first ritual, you are preparing for the second.

And in the second part, I'm just telling you what I think,

it's a drip of out of flesh.

And the third part is the final ritual.

And if you want, yes, for me it's like a liberation, yes.

For me it's that.

But it's up to you also now as an individual to see, okay, what am I doing

the beginning till the end.

No. And how do I feel?

I think

also in the second part, and we haven't worked...

Again, it's something that we haven't worked, but I think there is...

In the second part, I think you could get stimulated by the eyes of

the other, you know.

I think that's important to carry that second part.

Another thing, for example, the cleaning of the floor.

I mean, tomorrow I pass time, if you want that.

As ridiculous as this, but I mean, on doit en fait...

We are going to make trajects for everybody.

You are not going to stay on one place doing, ah, here is a drop of sweat.

And there is also another drop of sweat.

No, no, no, no.

That's impossible.

It's going to be from there, there, there, there, there, there.

You are going to move in that.

Because like it is now, yeah, it's ten beautiful cleaning ladies

that are crying.

to clean the floor. It's not possible. In the energy, in the mind, you should

be. It's not possible.

That rain, and the water wouldn't even exist.

And you're talking as if... I don't care anymore.

I'm here.

I'm

here.

Come here!

Oh my god!

Oh. Oh. Oh.

Oh.

Thank you.

Is this the end?

Alex!

Oh yeah!

Come on!

It's good.

It's like the mouth.

Sorry, he goes away.

I'm sorry.

I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead. I'm dead.

I'm dead.

I'm

dead.

And you can start one by one to go to Nelson.

Thank God.

Okay, stop.

Perhaps it's a very simple action. I mean, you drop and you go. I think

You drop and you hold one in your hand.

Let's go for it.

For the four actions.

Theo, Gustavo, drop.

And when you clean the floor, don't clean it like Cinderella,

exactly.

Clean, that means clean.

When you clean, do I have to show you how I clean my house when I clean my

house?

Do you clean your house sometimes on your knees when you drop a glass

of beer on the floor?

How do you clean it?

Okay, perhaps I have to think that when you clean...

Because, I mean, it has to be a little bit more energetic.

I mean, we are males here.

I mean, of course they will see me as a naked person, me as a naked man, maybe

also me as a naked homosexual, if they know or think or guess.

But hopefully, and that's my job, I will do my job very good so they see

more.

And even if they don't,

Like, I have to offer more than that.

I offer more than, or I try to offer more than, like,

my muscles, or my penis, or my ass.

Could you imagine?

Could you imagine?

Like a bathroom?

Like an after -show darkroom?

Meet the dancers.

Meet the dancers.

Extra, but you have to pay extra. Yeah, you have to pay extra.

The open day.

Day of the open door?

Day of the open big door?

Is there a farm around?

That's good.

That's why I think that today, it's still a strong act to put people naked

stage.

It's not an erotic nudity, on the one hand.

I think that's really important to say.

It's not an obscene nudity, at all.

It's just a nudity that is beautiful.

Does everybody got a sphere?

Does everybody got the two veils on the side?

Yes?

So

guys,

can I take this away or does somebody need to do it with me?

Thank you.

This is from Fox.

Yeah.