September 7, 2010, 9 pm
The Turin Opera House, TEATRO REGIO
Italian première
Balanchine-Kylián
The Royal Ballet of Flanders
Theme and Variations
George Balanchine had a lifelong special relationship with Pëtr Il’ič Čajkovskij’s music through his rich production perfectly suited to choreographies. Themes and variations comes from the last movement of Suite N 3 in G in and is an example of Balanchine’s sublime ability to orchestrate bodies and lines of movement.
Forgotten Land
Jirí Kylián, the great master of contemporary choreography is coming to Torinodanza bringing a well known masterpiece, Forgotten Land, and with a first for Italy: 27’52”. Forgotten land is one of Jirí Kylián’s most appealing performances of his over 100 creations: the image of an underwater world is the main source of inspiration with a precise reference to Britten’s birthplace in East Anglia, the music of that area having inspired the choreographer.
27’ 52”
«1687 hours of individual rehearsals with dancers / 182.5 hours with the assistant choreographer in studio/ 629 hours to create the score / 46 hours to prepare and record vocal registrations/ 229 hours of preparation (meetings, ateliers and production) /15 hours for music research /438 hours to design and prepare costumes /20 hours for lighting / mise en scène /12 hours for stage shots / 93 hours physiotherapy /900 hours choreography /46 hours preparation of classical courses /51 hours organization of the new production /35 hours for the programme/20.75 hours for the bills/14.5 hours for the studio photos which means 4418,75 hours for this production. This work will run and be seen in twenty-seven minutes and fifty-two seconds” (Jirí Kylián).
September 11-12, 2010, 9 pm
Italian première
FONDERIE LIMONE MONCALIERI
you PARA | DISO
Company Emio Greco | PC
How can we deal with such an abstract, ethereal and slightly boring place after the mocking, irreverent and dynamic HELLL and [purgatorio]POPOERA? How can the spiritual space par excellence turn into kinetic energy? The answer is held in you PARA |DISO which concludes Emio Greco and Pieter C. Scholten’s choreographic project started in 2006 and inspired by Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy (La Divina Commedia). It is not Dante’s words spelt out in images but a choreography which aims at unveiling the deepest memories of the body. “Choreography is a means to travel and visit other spaces. Paradise is a utopia but unlike the Inferno or Purgatory is lacks empathy. It is always illuminated, the lights are on. What would we become if we were ever to reach that spiritual balance? What is we attained that non-possibility of changing?” (Emio Greco)
October 1-2, 2010, 8.30 pm
CAVALLERIZZA REALE MANEGGIO
Rosas danst Rosas
Rosas Company
Four women standing up, backs to the audience: their first movement is to fall backwards, as if they were close to toppling over. The only sound to be heard is the noise of a human body and of its movements: snorting, breathing, falling, sprinting. Then music by Thierry De Mey and Peter Vermeersch starts playing: it is the soul of the second half of the piece. Rosas danst Rosas is a piece on tension, the contrast between rationality and emotions, the dialectics between aggressiveness and tenderness, the interaction between unison and counterpoint. Repeated the world throughout it has become a milestone in the evolution of contemporary dance.
October 3, 2010 8:30 pm
October 4, 2010 6 and 8.30 pm
Italian première
CAVALLERIZZA REALE MANEGGIO
Nouvelle Vague - Génération Bagnolet
Company ECO
In 1969 Jaques Chaurand created the International Choreography prize in thus shedding light on the new generation of French Choreographers: it is the beginning of the nouvelle danse. Nouvelle Vague, Génération Bagnolet, offer some of the best pieces to compete: Chansons de nuit by Dominique Bagouet, Suite by Jean-Claude Gallotta, Chiquenaudes by Daniel Larrieu and Marché noir by Angelin Preljocaj. Emilio Calcagno inspires new life into these pieces offering the unmistakable taste of the Nineteen Eighties through the costumes, the bright colours, the spiky epaulette, the tapered trousers but also tank to the fresh interpretation of the young dancers.
October 9th, 2010 8.30 pm
TEATRO CARIGNANO
May B
Company Maguy Marin
A breathtaking intertwining of imagination and sense of the absurd : May B is a choreography which finds its barycentre in Samuel Beckett, a way to rethink and meditate on the absurdity of life. Ten dancers on scene give life to the characters of the master of the absurd, dressed in pyjamas: a mismatch for their eagerness to discover, a quest which starts with sex through which they discover convulse and feverish movements, animated by a growing range of emotions. ‘ Anti-pretty aesthetics – says Sergio Trombetta – a homage to the world of Samuel Beckett which was to bring fame to the choreographer of Spanish descent born in Tulouse’. Maguy Marin created May B in 1981, an increasingly lively and powerful piece which is still being performed after nearly three decades.
October 29-30, 2010, 8.30 pm
Italian première
CAVALLERIZZA REALE MANEGGIO
primero erscht
les ballets C de la B
‘Everyone can easily retrace the first time(s) in their lives – says Bart Van den Eynde – the first time we drove, the first time someone lied to us, the first time we were kissed. They are moments we carry with us be it conscious or unconscious and that we compare to our daily experiences’. les ballets C de la B perform primero: Lisi Estaras and five performers re-experience the place of the ‘first times’ on the notes of klezmer music, expressly composed by the clarinetist Yom, close to Estaras’s memories and roots. A green field and ancient wooden furniture to recreate the image of a playground or more specifically of a séjour in memory land.
November 9-10, 2010 8:30 pm
Italian première
FONDERIE LIMONE
Out of Context - for Pina
les ballets C de la B
This new performance leads Alain Platel to research a language of movement able to voice the subconscious, arbitrariness and the uncontrolled feelings: spasms, convulsions and nervous habits pepper the choreography. As the playwright Hildegard De Vuyst states: ‘ Out of Context belongs to a mental space, diving into the meanders of existence, researching the roots of childhood and prehistory. Seeking something that is found n human beings and animals alike, harmony overcoming the duality between beautiful and ugly, good and evil, you and I, the single being and the community. Out of Context is a sort of ritual, a collection during which one is launched into seeking an unattainable essence.’
November 12-13, 2010 , 8:30 pm
Italian première
FONDERIE LIMONE
Gardenia
les ballets C de la B
Gardenia, the title bears the name of flower known to symbolise sincerity. The project started in October 2009 by presenting Platel and Van Laecke Sonia Herman Dolz’s disquieting movie Yo soi así though which we penetrate the meanders of the Bodega Bohemia, a cabaret of transvestites in Barcelona, meeting the private lives of a memorable group of aged Drag Queens. Vanessa Van Durme tickled the two directors’ imaginations and the interest of the composer Steven Prengles’s interest: thus last June gardenia was born, a pièce on cultivated and lost interests which Van Dorme interprets with other transsexual and transvestite friends (Marinella Guattarini).
November 7, 2010
/ laB
Les ballets C de la B will be in Turin between October the 29th and November the 13th, 2010 to present three performances and a series of other activities. As from October the 18th thanks to the cooperation of the Paolo Grassi Scuola d’Arte Drammatica the company will be organizing a three week training workshop which will lead to a the results being performed in Turin and Milan, with a short performance being added to Alain Platel’s Out of Context - for Pina on the 9th and 10th of November. Lastly the company will hold meetings at the Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti (the Academy of Fine Arts) , the University of Turin and the Lorusso Cotugno Prison Facilities.
Friday October 15, 2010, 8:30 pm
TEATRO CARIGNANO in cooperation with Prospettiva2
Another Sleepy Delta Dusty Day
Troubleyn/Jan Fabre (Belgium)
in cooperation with Prospettiva2
Forbidden love and suicide as the starting point of the performance, a story that unravels on a distant and oppressive day, a story of love and neglect which ends by jumping into unknown darkness.
Friday 29 and Saturday 30 of October 10 pm
CAVALLERIZZA REALE MANICA CORTA
Soluzione parziale a problema transitorio (A partial solution to a transient problem) - first première
Sara Marasso
Soluzione parziale a problema transitorio is a contemporary dance solo which stems from studying arms as the engine of movement and the guide for choreographic cm position. Torinodanza offers a space and a support to new and emerging choreographers in the Region Piedmont. After Ambra Senatore in 2009, the 2010 edition hosts Sara Marasso.
Friday October 8, 2010, 8.30 pm TEATRO BAUDI DI SELVE - VIGONE (To)
Nouvelle Vague - Génération Bagnolet
Company: ECO (France)
Once again the performance by the Compagnia ECO included in the programme and presented at the Teatro Baudi le Selve di Vigone in the context of the cooperation with the Province of Turin and of an increasing focus on developing synergies in the community.