Repertoire
Thirteen gestures of a body
"Enumeraba las cualidades de la sustancia vista en sueños: la ligereza, la impalpabilidad, la incoherencia, la libertad total respecto al tiempo, la movilidad de las formas de la persona que hace que cada uno se haga varios o que varios se reduzcan a uno, el sentimiento casi platónico de la reminiscencia, el sentido casi insoportable de una NECESIDAD.
A veces le había ocurrido volver a abrir una puerta, simplemente para comprobar que no la había cerrado tras de sí para siempre, y volverse a mirar a un transeúnte que acababa de dejar para negar el fin una partida, demostrándose a sí mismo su limitada libertad de hombre..."
Marguerite Yourcenar
OPUS NIGRUM
In co-production with COM 92
- World premiere by: Ballet Gulbenkian at Gran Auditorio Gulbenkian, Lisbon (Portugal), May 25th 1987
- Premiere by Compañía Nacional de Danza: at Teatro Albéniz, Madrid (Spain), April 3rd 1992
The music for this choreography was composed at the request of the Musical Service of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and was the result of close collaboration between the choreographer and the composer. The music was composed prior to the choreography but they are intrinsically joined, so that a part of the narrative visual structure underlies and precedes the music.
Both music and choreography were based on a text (prepared by the choreographer) in which characters and situations were defined. The music is like the soundtrack of a short film which works as a mechanism reminiscent of feelings, and a fictitious memory of states of mind.
António Emiliano
Información
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Coreografía:Olga Roriz
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Music:António Emiliano
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Costume and Set Design:Nuno Carinhas
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Lighting Design:Orlando Worm
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Running time:20'30''
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Premiere cast CND:Fernando Navajas, Luis Martín Oya, Antonio Fernández, Raúl Tino, Hans Tino, José Martínez, Marco Berriel, Ángel Rodríguez, Tony Fabré, Eduardo Castro, Ricardo Franco, César Augusto Moniz, Nacho Duato, Marta Álvarez, Yoko Taira, Eva López Crevillén, África Guzmán, Mª Luisa Delgado, Susana Ruiz, Catherine Allard, France Nguyen, Mar Baudesson, Mireia Bombardó, Cati Artega, Mª Luisa Ramos, Jenifer Grissette
