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This early dance video by Walter Verdin and Wim Vandekeybus (in collaboration with Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch for the musical score) is based on Vandekeybus’ first three choreographies What the Body Does Not Remember (1987), Les porteuses de mauvaises nouvelles (1989) en The Weight of a Hand (1990). It is filmed in an abandoned movie theatre in Brussels.

Wim Vandekeybus is at once a choreographer, dancer filmmaker and storyteller in this film with an all-male cast, horse-like dancers, racetracks, ballrooms and backrooms. A film based on Vandekyebus’ homonymous 1999 choreography.

In Vandekeybus’ world choreography and film, stage and screen, movement and story are closely related. This short film is part of his performance Inasmuch as Life is Borrowed (2000)