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Nightsongs

Patrick de Bana

My heart,

Don't ask me where love has gone,

I imagined it as a fortress

And, suddenly, it has collapsed.

Hold me and drink from the ruins of our love.

Quench my thirst, water my palate with history

of our love while my eyes are emptied of tears

How can this story become a rumor?

And in a story like so many others?

My love

I visited your home, I flew with desire,

I sang my pain.

You have the trust of the sweet dictator

The wisdom and the power to hurt me

Nostalgia burns me and the minutes

They are like embers in my blood.

Give me back my freedom, undo my bonds.

They have bloodied my wrists

I have given everything, I am empty.

What remains and what will remain of me?

I keep my word and you don't

Why am I your storm and that of life?

What has been of me?

Do I continue in your dreams, year after year?

And I am love.

I am a disoriented heart.

I am a dazed butterfly that flutters around you

Between us the desire was a traveler

Comrade, who gave us something to drink.

Has drunkenness in love been seen as great as ours?

How many castles in the air have we built!

We walked through twists and turns in the moonlight,

And joy came to meet us

We have laughed at the laughter of children.

And we have run so fast,

that we have surpassed our shadow.

  • World premiere by Compañía Nacional de Danza: at Teatro de Madrid, Madrid (Spain), June 5th 1998
  • Premiere by Compañía Nacional de Danza2: at the Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao (Spain), April 12nd 2002
Nightsongs-portada

Patrick Bana’s main source of inspiration to create Nightsongs was a folkloric Arabic poem. Love, sadness, hate, madness, they all are emotional branches of our vital experience, which builds relationships between us and others: our friends, our lovers… However, we start and end in loneliness. And it is there where we find our truth, the one that we come from, the one that we are heading to. This way, the circle of life closes with logic and harmony. It does not matter how energetic or intense life may have been; in the end, we find our essence, the purity that we had when we were born.

Información

  • Choreography:
    Patrick de Bana
  • Music:
    Arvo Pärt (1935) and Alberto Iglesias (1955)
  • Set Design:
    Patrick de Bana
  • Costume Design:
    Patrick de Bana (in collaboration with Ismael Aznar)
  • Lighting Design:
    Patrick de Bana (in collaboration with Nicolás Fischtel (A.A.I.)
  • Costumes made by:
    CND wardrobe
  • Running time:
    12' 30''
  • Premiere cast:
    Bertha Bermudez, Emmanuelle Broncin, Iratxe Ansa, Luis Martín Oya
  • Premiere cast CND2:
    Gabriel Blanco, Raquel Rey, Débora Maiques, Héctor Torres