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David Eugene Edwards has composed music for "Blush", a production of Belgian modern dance company Ultima Vez, by Belgian choreographer Wim Vandekeybus.

Blush Flyer September 2002

The project's music is largely based on Woven Hand material but Edwards has composed some original new music for it. Blush Music, a CD based on the production (but slighty reworked) was released in February 2003. In May 2003 Glitterhouse released (mail-order only) Blush, the original score of the production.

From the Belgian newspaper De Standaard you can read an interview with Wim Vandekeybus and David Eugene Edwards.

From the Belgian magazine Humo you can peruse another interview with Vandekeybus and Edwards.

From the German website ArtKrolls you can check a review of Blush, without Woven Hand. (Nov.'02)

From the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad you can view the assessment of Blush with Woven Hand live, at the Amsterdam Stadsschouwburg. (July'03) And this is what we thought of it.

From three Austrian newspapers (Der Standard, Die Presse and Der Kurier) you can see their opinion about a joint Ultima Vez - Woven Hand performance at the Vienna Volkstheater. (July'03)

From an English website you can find out what happens and doesn't happen to the frog. (January '04)

From two English broadsheets (The Independent and The Guardian) you can glance at their appraisal of a Blush performance by Ultima Vez and Woven Hand at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre. (February '04)

From the Scottish newspaper The Scotsman you can go over its analysis of Blush accompanied by Woven Hand at Glasgow's Theatre Royal. (February '04)

From the French newspaper Le Soir you can find out how David Eugene Edwards co-operated with Wim Vandekeybus for the making of. (January '05)

David Eugene Edwards and Wim Vandekeybus

Picture by RR

World première: September 24th 2002 at KVS/de bottelarij, Brussels

BLUSH

choreography & direction Wim Vandekeybus | created with & performed by Laura Aris Alvarez, Elena Fokina, Jozef Frucek, Ina Geerts, Robert M. Hayden, German Jauregui Allue, Thi-Mai Nguyen, Linda Kapetanea, Thomas Steyaert, Wim Vandekeybus | music David Eugene Edwards (singer/songwriter 16 Horsepower & Woven Hand) | texts Peter Verhelst & Ultima Vez | artistic assistant Eduardo Torroja | choreographic assistant Inaki Azpillaga | dramaturgic advice Hildegard De Vuyst, Jan Goossens, Nicola Schossler | scenography Wim Vandekeybus | assistant to the director Greet Van Poeck | technical coordination Ralf Nonn | light creation Ralf Nonn & Wim Vandekeybus | stagemanagement & props Daniel Huard I sound engineer Benjamin Dandoy | styling & costumes Isabelle Lhoas | styling & costumes assistant Frederic Denis assisted by Heidi Ehrhart.

Picture by Hans Roels

Departure point of the new production is 'isolation and liberation'. How do you become physically isolated? How do you communicate with others in this isolation, in this measurable, irritating world... ('l'enfer c'est les autres'?!), especially as you realize that the other is tangible? What do you try to hide and which situations make the silent witness - the public - blush?

Opposite this physical isolation is mental isolation. This immeasurable, influencible interior world is actually indissolubly bound to the tangible outside world. It's like a prison without walls, in which horizons don't exist, in which man can make all his desires happen himself. On stage there are ten performers: men as well as women, dancers as well as actors, newcomers as well as known performers from the company. Writer Peter Verhelst follows the creation process, reworking and giving structure to the material that the performers bring. The story is not an aim in itself: emotion and intuition remain the motor of the creation.

The original music is composed by David Eugene Edwards, singer-songwriter of '16 Horsepower' and his more recent solo project 'Woven Hand'.

For more information, visit the Ultima Vez website.