While some of the companies have provided excellent pictures which correspond to the show at hand – Opéra de Paris, Etienne Guilloteau, Jan Lauwers to name a few – others have offered pictures which have little or nothing to do with the stage performance…. While I understand these dance companies would like to protect their image, at the very least there should be an official Impulstanz photographer shooting every show in rehearsal and offering the company director or manager to approve or disapprove shots from the rehearsal photo session.
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I first saw this work or at least the core of it two years ago in the Vienna Volksopera…. There were works by four of the best of independent dance in Vienna that night (Tanztheater Homunculus and Tanz Hotel were two of the others).
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Another one of the poster productions of this year’s Impulstanz, Daniel Leveillé’s new work is graced not only by the strong image of three naked men flying but also by a chillingly poetic title The Modesty of Icebergs ( La pudeur des icebergs)…. The piece is difficult to describe as there was no particular narrative but rather a cyclical repetition of the same movements with an ensemble comprised mainly of three men but augmented at times to as many as five men and one woman.
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Woman collapses on stage. A bleached out video shows on a large plasma screen on the left hand wall of the theatre.
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The girl rolls on to her back. A single overhead light comeGirl is dressed in in plain white t-shirt and very blue jeans.
Leave a CommentAfter the Marie Chouinard show, there was a lovely party. At the party, the music was also Bach.
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The prize for the most fun show so far at Impulstanz 2005 has to go to Melissa is a bith from Ann Liv Young.
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At one point, Chi Long crosses the stage on mini-crutches on her arms, somehow managing to move and dance with her legs almost horizontal behind her…. The music for all this is either Bach’s Goldberg Variations or some sort of atmospheric drone with what sounds like sampled and heavily distorted Glenn Gould intoning “I would never argue in favor of an inflexible musical policy”.
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