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CND2 REPERTOIRE Ucelli
- Nacho Duato
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Choreography:
Nacho Duato
Music: Ottorino
Respighi
Set
design: Tom
Schenk
Costumes: Tom
Schenk
Lighting
Design:
Joop Caboort
Premiered by the Nederland Dans Theater II at the Muziektheater, Amsterdam, on the 21st of November 1985. Premiered by the Compañía Nacional de Danza 2 at the Teatro de Madrid, on the 25th of May 2000.
Uccelli was
inspired by the musically
colourful piece Gli
Uccelli by the Italian
composer Ottorino Respighi,
in five parts: the Prelude,
The Dove, The Hen, The
Nightingale and The
Cuckoo.
This
was one of Nacho Duato’s
first pieces of work as
a choreographer and was
created for the Nederland
Dans Theater II.
Duato and the dancers
from the Dutch company
had just visited the zoo
to observe the birds there.
Nevertheless, Uccelli is
in no way a study of the
movements and behaviour
of birds but rather looks
at people who try to imitate
them. The piece speaks
of a group of dancers
that find themselves by
chance in a tailor's cutting
room, where they discover
a sack full of old clothes
and start to dance, dressed
in worn out tutus and
ridiculous dinner jackets.
This
is a flighty, fast and
playful ballet with plenty
of variation. Some parts
are decidedly poetic,
whilst others are fleeting
and angular. The movement
in the piece is often
inspired by the behaviour
of birds: the way that
chickens scratch in the
dirt, the graceful flight
of a nightingale,
the fluttering of doves
and the typical movements
of a cuckoo.
