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Choreography: Nacho Duato
Music: Alberto Iglesias
Costumes: Nacho Duato, in collaboration with Ismael Aznar
Sets: Nacho Duato
Light Design: Nicolás Fischtel
World premiered by Compañía Nacional de Danza at Teatro Madrid, on April 14th, 1994
Wallace Stevens, Collected Poems
Although these poetic fragments were a starting point for this new ballet, something that inspired a mutual sentiment it also held true in our earlier collaboration Cautiva, which had left us hanging from that very point that allows us to name some concepts with the same name. Those points of clarity sketched the double nature of the first note and its evaporation in the movement. Later on, we took care of the mysterious play of alternations, which fix the poetic both in dance and in music. And so, from that moment on, each one invented his own way, and whilst one said ’to impulse’ the other said ’to increase’; and if one said ’rotate’ the other would rather say ’hang from a point’. And in this way, the senses could be so crossed that in a board of equivalences ’to open’ would be ’to forget’, ’to close’ is ’to repeat’and ’nothing’ is ’nothing’. ’Obsession’ is ’obsession’ and ’fountain of silk’ is ’something which cannot be seen, but which achieves a command’. Those and others have been our terms. They remain hidden/submerged, in the same way that the city forgets itsbuilding and offers its streets or corners as though they had been built long ago.
