Demis Volpi and Shaun Amyot create a choreogaphy in Toronto for the opening of the Pan American Games
Both choreographers and the dancers are introducing the project:
http://www.tfo24-7.com/rencontre-au-dela-de-la-danse/
Vom 19.07.2015 | Permalink »
World premiere of Goecke's "Thin Skin" on Jnauary 28th with Nederlands Dans Theatre
Marco Goecke’s latest premiere “Thin Skin” is a homage to the punk rock icon and poet Patti Smith, who made music history straight away with her first album “Horses” (1975).
Ten years after he first choreographed Smith’s song “Godspeed“ in his piece “Ickyucky” for the Stuttgart Noverre Society, Goecke is now converting this and five further compositions by the Godmother of Punk into dance.
The singer’s rhythmically elaborate, sometimes breathless-sounding lyrics form a visually and acoustically powerful synthesis with Goecke’s very particular frenetic language of movement. “Mind is a picture. And there in the corner is the hint of a spiral. Perhaps it is a virus; perhaps it is a spirit tatoo”, writes Smith, and Goecke’s dancers, whose skin is covered in countless tatoos, create dream worlds that are permanently changing. They appear sensitive and fragile, then strong an unstoppable again. A bouquet of flowers burns out; it consists of countless little sparks: “Blowing candles out, blowing stars on”, writes Smith, and just like her, Goecke searches the clouds for signs and answers. Many individual solos form a line in “Thin Skin” like pearls on a string, ”gather what must be gathered. What has been thrown away. What is precious. Fragments of the human soul that have somehow dispersed“. The dance, too, remains elusive, but it gets under the skin, the skin of the thin-skinned.
Nadja Kadel, English Translation Marielle SutherlandVom 18.01.2015 | Permalink »
Santiago de Chile Ballet presents Demis Volpi's world premiere "Quasi una fantasia"
Demis Volpi - creator of the award-winning Spaceman (2012)- arrives in Chile with an innovative contemporary ballet, called Quasi una fantasia. Designer Thomas Lempertz wanted to work on a reflection on hair. Volpi welcomed the idea and decided to explore the aesthetic, expressive, emotional, and cultural significance of hair through movement and Henryk Górecki's String Quartet n.° 2.
rehearsal picture: Patricio Melo
More information: http://www.balletdesantiago.com/temporada-2014/festival-de-coreografos/
Vom 25.08.2014 | Permalink »