March 22nd, 2006 | 2006, Uncategorized
31 March – 1 April 2006 THAT WAS THEN THIS IS NOW
For the duration of one weekend De Appel is Janus-faced: looking back to past achievements and looking forward to unrealized possibilities.
With a polyphonic talk show including a large number of guests and hosts the history of De Appel is turned into a palpable experience rather than a series of written documents and photographs. A presentation by academic Marga van Mechelen and a lecture by French curator Guillaume D�sanges shed a new light on the origins of De Appel as a performance-based space set up by Wies Smals in 1975. The production �Show Dance� by Swiss-Greek choreographer Alexandra Bachzetsis explores the shadowland between conceptual dance, visual arts performance and hints at the future collaboration between De Appel and the festival �If I Can�t Dance� in Autumn 2006.