„Dearest Earthly Friend“ are the words with which the American poet Emily Dickinson adressed her dear friend Reverend Charles Wadsworth, whom she only met a few times but remained emotionally attached to for her entire life. In a different, but somehow comparable way Marco Goecke, whose latest creation for Les Ballets de Monte Carlo carries this title, adresses his audience, that is each of us: with a salutation that expresses trust, but also imposes a certain responsibility. The dancers, accompagnied by Ella Fitzgerald`s singing and Gyorgy Ligeti’s piano music, are quickly moving in the apparently fuzzy but highly sophisticated, typical Goecke-style they are already familiar with as this is Goecke`s fourth choreography for the company. The series of precise and razor-sharp movements is performed in an tense atmosphere tinging the air with dust and the colour of melancholy.
Dancer: Jeroen Verbruggen Photo: Nadja Kadel