Interview with Eric Trope
Heatscape Master Repositor
During the weeks prior to our recent premiere at Teatros del Canal, dozens of rehearsals took place at the CND headquarters, where we received three important dance figures who helped us with the assembly of the pieces in the program (Heatscape, Le Jeune Homme et la Mort and Cantata).
If you’ve been wanting to know more about Heatscape, by choreographer Justin Peck, don’t miss the details of this interview with Eric Trope, who personally worked on its staging for CND.
Trope, dancer, teacher and choreographer has managed to transmit to our dancers the essence of this piece on which he has worked so many times: a fusion of ballet and street art guided by the fundamental role of Martinů’s vibrant music.
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In Paradisum, Antonio Ruz’s latest creation for the Compañía Nacional de Danza (Spain) is inspired by the Spanish painter El Greco’s colour palette for the costume design, lighting design and also on the dancer’s movements and figures. The composition’s verticality and height, along with the dark and ocre colour tones with strokes of red, white, blue and green are reflected in the choreography.
Moreover, the piece also recalls other painters, mainly being from the Renaissance and Baroque period. We can appreciate Caravaggio’s characteristic chiaroscuro technique; the dynamic lines of the body’s posture, often resembling the descent of the cross in Raffaelo’s and Caracciolo’s works; the perspective Christ of Saint John of the Cross by Dalí, or even Bouguereau’s Nymphs and Satyr mythological creatures’ fluid movements.
Next, a series of examples of paintings beside In Paradisum’s photographies by Alba Muriel.
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