by Jérôme Bel
Lviv, Ukraine, July 2026, Zankovetska National Theatre
Stage Manager, 2nd Assistant Director
Supported by The French Institute Ukraine and Culture Helps Solidarity Collaboration Grant
In collaboration with Nafta Theatre and Unbroken Rehabilitation Centre
Link to the interview with Jerome Bel I have conducted for Ukrainska Pravda
Gala offers a different approach to dance. In this collective art form, Jérôme Bel’s project brings togethe dance professionals and amateurs of diverse backgrounds. The different acts never call on us to pas judgement, but they reveal the way in which each person’s cultural repertoire involves them in a singular relationship with that desire for something else that dance is.
Gala asks the question: how can we bring to the realms of onstage representation individuals an bodies that are all too often excluded from such a possibility? How can we make best use of all the various resources of this unique apparatus, the theatre - with its codes, venues, genres and professional - in order to enlarge the perimeter of what can be shown in it? And how can we (re)shape it into a democratic means that lies within the grasp of all those drawn to dance, singing and the performing arts?