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Cast Info Plot
 
Tbilisi Ballet Festival
28   June, 20.00

Nederlands Dans Theater



Programme:


 
Sad Case by Sol León & Paul Lightfoot

Music: Pérez Prado: Mambo no. 8; Muchachita; Always in my heart; Caballo Negro
Alberto Dominguez: Frenesi
Ray Barretto: El Watusi
Trio Los Panchos: Perfidia
Augustin Lara: Maria Bonita

Decor and costumes:     Sol León & Paul Lightfoot
Light: Tom Bevoort
World premiere: 7 February 1998, Lucent Danstheater, The Hague
Duration: 22 minutes
 


Wir sagen uns Dunkles by Marco Goecke
 
Music   
Franz Schubert: Trio, Nocturne in e flat, opus 148, D. 897
Placebo: Song to Say Goodbye; Slave to the Wage; Loud like Love
Alfred Schnittke: Piano quintet, part 2: 'in tempo di Valse'
Music advisor Jan Pieter Koch
Light Udo Haberland
Decor & costumes Marco Goecke
Duration 29 minutes
World premiere 4 November, 2017, Zuiderstrandtheater, The Hague
 
 
 
Subtle Dust
Choreography by Sol León & Paul Lightfoot
Music:
Johann Sebastian Bach:
Cantata #12, Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen - BWV 12; Cantata #150, Nach Dir, Herr, Verlanget, Mich - Sinfonia - BWV 150; Toccata in C Minor - BWV 911; Prelude & Fugue in D Minor - BWV 851; arrangeur Alexander Raskatov ©Internationale Musikverlage H. Sikorski, Hamburg/ Albersen
Verhuur B.V., ’s-Gravenhage; Cantata #152, Tritt Auf Die Glaubensbahn - Concerto - BWV 152; Violin Concerto #2 In E. Adagio - BWV 1042-2; Bach Goldberg Variations Aria - BWV 988; arrangeur Victor Kissine
Sleep Whales by Nature Sounds
Light Tom Bevoort
Video work Sol León, Paul Lightfoot, Rahi Rezvani
Costumes Joke Visser, Hermien Hollander
Decor Sol León & Paul Lightfoot

World premiere
March 8, 2018 Zuiderstrandtheater The Hague
Duration 28 minutes
 

Sad Case was created in 1998 when Sol León was seven months pregnant with their daughter, and acts as one of the main pillars of León & Lightfoot’s oeuvre. Since then the ballet has been modified into an adapted version. Surprising and earthly movements on Mexican mambo music show a continual search for the tension between satirical and classic moments.
 
Wir sagen uns Dunkles
Marco Goecke’s Wir sagen uns Dunkles begins with encounters in the studio between the choreographer and the dancers. Their meetings appear unimportant, yet simultaneously they are more important than anything else; young, naughty and evil, playful and punky. “Today, my feelings belong to the dancers, more than ever before”, says Goecke. A blink of the eye, a glance, a seemingly fleeting gesture. Just a moment or a story? What remains is a tear on an eyelash that is fanned away. How do we get closer? A butterfly that remains a second before it flies away. The sounds of Schubert and Schnittke meet those of Placebo, The Swan Song and Song To Say Goodbye. Then there are the rattling pants, its sound interfering with the music. Goecke: “The dancers understand me immediately. There is no limit, they want to be challenged.” They move fast, virtuoso, gesticulate in peculiar ways, unconscious yet self-assured, and - whether solo, in a pas de deux or larger group - they communicate in Goecke's language, as if they had never learned another. Darkness Spoken, without words.
 
Subtle Dust
 
We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. – T.S.Elliot
 
“2001 was the last time we worked with the infinitesimal music of J.S.Bach. His influence for a period of our oeuvre was impactful, therefore it was a clear and conscious decision on our part to revisit him now in our journey. Nearly all of the pieces of Bach we have collected for this ballet are transcriptions or interpretations of his magnificent music. His source remaining intact, and yet altered, transformed. Transformation plays a crucial role in all our lives on many levels, be it physical, emotional or spiritual. Our work remains abstract, yet what purer way to compare our choreographic duality to the concept of both manual instinct and intellectual thought transmuting to produce a third element made of both in part. A Symbiosis. We wanted that this work should be firmly about quality with these young and talented artists. To hopefully enable them to grow and change by returning to the roots, swimming with the cycles, reconnecting with nature where we will all encounter the source which is patiently waiting.”
 
 


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