Jérôme Bel’s project Gala brings together a group of 18 people on stage of HAU1 –   professional dancers and actors as well as amateurs, gathered together in Berlin.

Starting point of the performance are the questions: how can we bring to the realms of onstage representation individuals and 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 professionals—in order to enlarge the perimeter of what can be shown in it? The result is a gala that is bitty, patched up, traversed by moments of reflection, like galleries of living portraits.

HAU1, Stresemannstraße 29, 10963 Berlin