AVEC 11 DANSEURS & 4 MUSICIENS
Award-winning choreographer and artistic director Édouard Lock has created a new work for La La La Human Steps, the prestigious company he founded in 1980. Lock uses as his reference two baroque operas, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Gluck's Orpheus. He has collaborated with British composer Gavin Bryars, with whom he worked on a deconstruction of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, to achieve interaction between the two unrelated works. The music will be played live in stage by a quarter featuring saxophone, viola, cello and piano.
Lock himself says that the "inherent coldness of Baroque structures permits precise choreography to coexist with precise composition, encouraging the choreography to observe the theme from a "detached" point of view." Indeed, he is trying to achieve something new in this work - namely to allow narrative structure and abstract dance structure to mutually reinforce each other while also remaining independent of each other. As well as the choreography linking the two stories, with Orpheus influenced by and seen through Dido and Aeneas, Lock introduces a film element representing the point of view of Cerberus, the three-headed dog guarding the way to Hades. Lock believes that, because observation is by nature inclusive, by placing in close proximity the two unrelated but chronologically close works, Lock says the audience will link the stories and invent a new narrative from them.
»… the essence of Lock's language is extraordinary, classical steps wired to extremes of speed and expression. The Guardian
Award-winning choreographer and artistic director Édouard Lock has created a new work for La La La Human Steps, the prestigious company he founded in 1980. Lock uses as his reference two baroque operas, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Gluck's Orpheus. He has collaborated with British composer Gavin Bryars, with whom he worked on a deconstruction of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty, to achieve interaction between the two unrelated works. The music will be played live in stage by a quarter featuring saxophone, viola, cello and piano.
Lock himself says that the "inherent coldness of Baroque structures permits precise choreography to coexist with precise composition, encouraging the choreography to observe the theme from a "detached" point of view." Indeed, he is trying to achieve something new in this work - namely to allow narrative structure and abstract dance structure to mutually reinforce each other while also remaining independent of each other. As well as the choreography linking the two stories, with Orpheus influenced by and seen through Dido and Aeneas, Lock introduces a film element representing the point of view of Cerberus, the three-headed dog guarding the way to Hades. Lock believes that, because observation is by nature inclusive, by placing in close proximity the two unrelated but chronologically close works, Lock says the audience will link the stories and invent a new narrative from them.
»… the essence of Lock's language is extraordinary, classical steps wired to extremes of speed and expression. The Guardian
Cast and Creative Team for La La La Human Steps at Grand Theatre of the City of Luxembourg
CHORÉGRAPHIE, LUMIÈRE, FILM Éduard Lock
MUSIQUE Gavin Bryars, Blake Hargreaves
DÉCOR Armand Vaillancourt
COSTUMES Liz Vandal
PRODUCTION La La La Human Steps
COPRODUCTION Het Muziektheater Amsterdam, deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerpen), Hellerau - European Center for the Arts Dresden, Ottawa National Arts Centre, Singapore Arts Festival, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Conseil des Arts du Canada, Conseil des Arts de Montréal
MUSIQUE Gavin Bryars, Blake Hargreaves
DÉCOR Armand Vaillancourt
COSTUMES Liz Vandal
PRODUCTION La La La Human Steps
COPRODUCTION Het Muziektheater Amsterdam, deSingel International Arts Campus (Antwerpen), Hellerau - European Center for the Arts Dresden, Ottawa National Arts Centre, Singapore Arts Festival, Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Conseil des Arts du Canada, Conseil des Arts de Montréal
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