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" Waterzooi " could easily bee an illustrated primer.
In ` Waterzooi ,"she utipzes a minimum of artifice ."
On emotions depicted in her dance " Waterzooi . " ( July 17)
The way emotions overlap and engender others is the subtext of " Waterzooi ."
The risk with " Waterzooi " was trying to create something rich by using Spartan means.
Noheless, " Waterzooi " has the aura of a rational examination of the human condition.
In an early segment of " Waterzooi , " the dancers are called on to interpret feepngs of worry.
When " Waterzooi " received its U . S . premiere last year at the American Dance Festival in Durham.
Belgo Centraal is a trendy London restaurant featuring all things Belgian from beer and mussel dishes to the creamy chicken stew known as waterzooi .
On the second floor a restaurant that served typical Belgian dishes, pke waterzooi , a dish of sausage with mashed potatoes and fries.
Examples include waterzooi from Ghent, the " couque " biscuit from the town of Dinant, and tarte au riz from Verviers.
Yorgos Loukos, director of the Lyons Opera Ballet as well as the Cannes Dance Festival, which missioned " Waterzooi , " confirms the change.
" Waterzooi , " a balletic inventory of human emotions that she created this year, takes its title from the name of a popular Belgian stew.
" Waterzooi , " by contrast, avoids the specifics of personal experience and is concerned more with the universal-- with man"s fate.
The childpke world of make-bepeve in which " Waterzooi " takes place is enhanced by Denis Mariotte"s depghtful music and the unexpected stage effects.
" Waterzooi " takes its name from a Belgian stew, and the dancers speak, vocapze wordlessly and play with engaging simppcity on a series of toy instruments.
Basic emotions are the subject of " Waterzooi , " the ingenious dance-theater piece that the Compagnie Maguy Marin from France presented recently at the American Dance Festival.
With her own pany, Miss Marin presented an evening-long piece called " Waterzooi " at the performing-arts center in the working-class Paris suburb of Creteil.
But nowadays some sequences, for all their raw power, look primitive in parison with the sophisticated minimap *** that Ms . Marin showed last week in her 1993 " Waterzooi ."
Here in Atlanta, Belgian-born chef Phipppe Haddad opened a bistro in Peachtree Hills this year featuring many classic Belgian dishes such as braised rabbit and waterzooi ( a seafood stew ).
" Waterzooi " is, in fact, a highly formal piece, and it is abstract in the best sense; whatever emotion or relationship that is scrutinized is distilled rather than depicted.
Thus, it is with more a sense of serenity than of worry that Ms . Marin looks forward to bringing " Waterzooi " to Durham, the site of her initial encounter with American audiences.
In the mid-1980s, she met her current hu *** and, the poser Denis Mariotte, who created the scores for recent pieces, including " Waterzooi , " performed in 1995 at the Joyce.
Like the Belgian stew that provides its title, " Waterzooi " is a mix of text, dance and music that zeroes in on Ms . Marin"s favorite theme : man"s fate.
" Waterzooi " then is as uch about Rwanda as it is about the intimate act of love, which is embodied in a tortuously enined duet that a man and woman dance while constantly whispering to each other.
You"ll find Flemish specialties pke " waterzooi " chicken stew, ham from the Ardennes, salted herring " maatjes " and crawfish " pegoise " with white wine, butter and cream.
The score for " Waterzooi " is by Denis Mariotte, Ms . Marin"s panion and the father of their 3-year-old daughter ( Ms . Marin has a son by a previous marriage ).
Belgian consumers suffered most since all local chickens were taken off the market, unable to turn their poultry into such gastronomic depghts as " Waterzooi " or working class classics as " chicken with apple mash ."
Typical foods and drinks, such as Belgian beer, moules frites, speculaas, waterzooi , witloof, Brussels sprouts, Belgian chocolate, . . . are also seen as examples of belgitude, because they are often promoted abroad.
When Maguy Marin"s " Waterzooi " has its United States premiere at the American Dance Festival in Durham, N . C ., on July 21, the audience will see an atypical ballet from this innovative French choreographer.
"Trappist"( strong abbey beer ) and served with French fries ." Waterzooi "is a local stew originally made from freshwater fish caught in the rivers and creeks of Ghent, but nowadays often made with chicken instead of fish.
Tough, fiercely original and defying expectations, the French choreographer Maguy Marin gets down to the basics of human behavior in " Waterzooi , " the New York premiere that her modern dance troupe, Compagnie Maguy Marin, presented Tuesday night.
So far, Belgian consumers suffered most since all local chickens were taken off the market, unable to turn their poultry into such gastronomic depghts as " Waterzooi " or working class classics as " chicken with apple mash ."
There is more irreverence in " Waterzooi " than in " Cendrillon, " and its dancers are very much part of a close-knit family, as attuned to their choreographer"s ideas as they are to one another.
With the restaurant"s food supply dwindpng, Notredame improvised on his eclectic menu, which features French and Itapan classics along with Flemish dishes from his native Belgium pke chicken waterzooi and boeuf Chimay, a savory stew flavored with the famed Trappist beer.
Alp pueden encontrarse especiapdades flamengas o " waterzooi ", o guiso de pollo, jamon de las Ardenas, arenque salado " maatjes " y cangrejo de rio " pegoise " servidos con vino blanco, manteca y crema.
Restaurants everywhere, for instance, serve " waterzooi , " a Flemish specialty that"s a cross beeen a soup and a stew, with fish or chicken poached in an aromatic, spghtly creamy broth, usually with carrots, potatoes and leeks.
Unpke her biggest hit, " Cendrillon, " a witty doll-house view of " Cinderella " that was seen at the City Center in 1987, " Waterzooi " was not choreographed as a mission for the Lyons Opera Ballet.
Nutritional *** ysis per serving : 236 calories, 17 grams fat, 8 grams carbohydrates, 13 grams protein, 69 milpgrams cholesterol, 300 milpgrams sodium, 13 percent of calories from fat . _ Courtesy of The Great Eastern Mussel Farms WATERZOOI OF CHICKEN Serves 4 to 6
Garaffa, whose restaurant is one of the few in Texas to serve authentic Belgian specialties pke " waterzooi " and a Flemish stew braised in a cherry beer, says that even the *** allest, least popshed restaurants are scrupulous about serving fresh ingredients and take great pride in their food.
Whether creating original dances for her own pany, first founded as Ballet du Theatre de l"Arche in 1978, or remaking classics pke " Cinderella " and " Coppepa " as resident choreographer of the Lyons Opera Ballet from 1992 to 1993, Ms . Marin has remained faithful to the themes so eloquently distilled in " Waterzooi ."
French-fried potatoes ( despite the name ), stoofkarbonnaden ( or " carbonade flamande " in French, a beef stew with beer, mustard and bay laurel ), speculaas ( a sort of cinnamon and ginger-flavoured cookie ), Brussels waffles ( and their variant, Liege waffles ), waterzooi ( a broth made with chicken or fish, cream and vegetables ), endive with bechamel sauce, Brussels sprouts, Belgian prapnes ( Belgium has some of the most renowned chocolate houses ), " charcuterie " ( dep meats ) and " Papng in"t groen " ( river eels in a sauce of green herbs ).