07 May 2009 | Thursday 20:30
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Duration: 40'
Full: 18 TL Discount: 12 TL
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In this minimalist performance, Belgian choreographer Michèle Anne De Mey and her waltzing partner Grégory Grosjean playfully and thoughtfully reinvent this "old fashioned" dance for two.
Michèle Anne de Mey, too, is exploring a kind of "light" music: the waltz. Like everything else, dances evolve, transform, migrate and acquire novel meanings in their new contexts. Around 1750s, the peasants of Bavaria, Tyrol and Styria began to practice a dance that was called Walzer; a dance for couples. Another country-dance that was popular in Bohemia, Austria, and Bavaria was known as Laendler and danced in a ¾ tempo gradually spread from the countryside to the suburbs of the city of Vienna, and the stamping rotation was replaced by a gliding one. While it was being criticized by conservative circles as being "too intimate," the dance became very popular in late 18th century and its many versions and styles - from the Viennese Waltz to the Peruvian; from the Cross Step Waltz to the Country Western - were danced in the ballrooms of Europe. Furthermore, waltz music has evolved beyond that of Johann Strauss's "The Blue Danube": many contemporary composers have made use of the waltz form e.g. Avril Lavigne's "I'm With You," Billy Joel's "Piano Man," as well as the melodies accompanying the minimalist performance of Belgian choreographer Michèle Anne De Mey and her partner Grégory Grosjean where they playfully reinvent this dance and its multiple temporal ramifications.
Performed by: Michèle Anne De Mey and Grégory Grosjean | Conception: Michèle Anne De Mey, Gregory Grosjean, Agnès Quackels, Stéphane Olivier, Eric Faes | Costume: Frédéric Denis et Lorraine Frennet | Light:Music: Bonnie Tyler, Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bourvil, Ballade Irlandaise, King's Singers, La Valseà Mille Temps, The Who, Please, Please, Please, Noriko Tujiko, Marble Waltz, Julio Jaramillo, Cicatrices, Will Tura, Eenzaam Zonder Jou, Hungry Ghosts, Waltz, Simon & Garfunkel, Scarborough Fair, Christophe, Aline, Johan Dalgas Frisch, Viennese Suite N°2, Velvet Underground, I'm Sticking with You, Charles Verstraete, La Valse des Canaris | A creation of: Cie MADM/Astragale asbl, a production by Charleroi/Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Communauté française, supported by Ministère de la Communauté française Wallonie-Bruxelles - Service de la Danse, du CGRI et de Wallonie Bruxelles Théâtre, with the support of Le Botanique (B), de l'Hippodrome de Douai (F) et du Théâtre de l'Octogone (CH) en in partnership with la Ferme du Buisson (F). Simon Siegmann |
Michèle Anne de Mey (1959) is a Belgian choreographer. She studied at Mudra - the school founded in Brussels by Maurice Béjart (1976-1979). She took contemporary dance to a new direction in her first works such as Passe Simple (1981), the duets Ballatum (1984) and Face à Face (1986). In parallel to her own work, she worked for six years creating and performing several pieces by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker including Fase (1982), Rosas danst Rosas (1983), Elena's Aria (1984) and Ottone, ottone (1988). Although she has always placed particular emphasis on the relationship between dance and music, the choreographic structure of Michèle Anne De Meys creations fosters a strong dramaturgical content and places the dancer in a specific and innovative relationship between the stage and the audience. She set up her own company in 1990 for her creation Sinfonia Eroica. Fifteen creations have followed, each to international acclaim, including Raining Dogs (2002), Utopie (2001), KatameniaPulcinella (1994), Love Sonnets (1994), Chateaux en Espagne (1991) and Cahier (1995). Her choreographic work has formed the basis for several films, including Love Sonnets and 21 Etudes à Danser by Thierry de Mey and Face à Face by Eric Pauwels. Since June 2005, she has been sharing responsibility for the artistic direction of the C entre Chorégraphique de la Communauté Francaise de Belgique, Charleroi/Danses.
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