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
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
