Culture and COVID-19 do not go well together. However, a few were lucky enough to have been spared for the most part. Dancer and choreographer Georges Maikel is one of them, as he says himself. A conversation about recognition, competitiveness and a job like no other.
Bonnevoie, shortly before 1 pm. It is a sunny Tuesday. The rhythmic music can already be heard from outside the Banannefabrik. It arouses curiosity about what is going on inside the Trois C-L dance centre, the Centre de Création Chorégraphique Luxembourgeois (Centre for Choreographic Creation). Before you can start to imagine what could happen inside, the entrance door opens. "Hey, come on in! Sorry I'm late, it took a little longer."
With the first steps inside the building, the background noise falls silent – "we're taking a break until shortly after 2 pm". There seem to be rehearsals going on in one room, the rest of the dancers are sitting together with their lunch, exchanging ideas. We are led into one of the empty rehearsal rooms. A large room with a few rows of chairs from which the action can be observed without disturbances. The room is pitch black and reminiscent of a kind of black box. Music starts playing and Georges Maikel Pires Monteiro, the young man who greeted us at the beginning, starts moving to the echoing sounds.
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