Looking Inward, Outward, Backward and Forward

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Notes

1. Since the time of writing, the 2009 European and Regional elections saw a sizeable swing in support from the extreme right to the more moderate centre right party Nieuw Vlaamse Alliantie.

2. Fabrizio Cassol is a Belgian composer with whom Platel works regularly.

3. Claire Russ, ‘Conversations with Alain Platel’, Dance Theatre Journal, 14 (1998), 27–30 (p. 29).

4. This term here refers not just to the idea of inter-racial mixing, but also to the emphasizing and embracing of multiplicity and difference between art forms, people, nationalities, sexualities, capabilities and so on, which is characteristic of Platel's work.