Events
DANCE ON ENSAMBLEExtracts from 7 Dialogues
Matteo Fargion
An artistic collaboration with, by and fromTy Boomershine i Beth Gill, Amancio Gonzalez i Hetain Patel, Brit Rodemund i Lucy Suggate, Christopher Roman i Ivo Dimchev, Jone San Martin i Tim Etchells, Frédéric Tavernini i Noé Soulier
Cast (presentation at Konfrontacje Teatralne)Ty Boomershine, Brit Rodemund, Jone San Martin
What do you get when composer Matteo Fargion reduces Schubert’s Erlkönig to its basic structure and hands this over to six highly skilled dance artists and six renowned choreographers and theatre makers to engage in a dialogue on stage? The answer is an extraordinary experiment yielding six very individual and personal solos. Christopher
Roman has been working with the Bulgarian performance artist Ivo Dimchev, Amancio Gonzalez with the London based visual artist Hetain Patel, Jone San Martin with the British director, author and performer Tim Etchells, Ty Boomershine with the New York choreographer Beth Gill, Brit Rodemund with the London-based choreographer and dancer Lucy Suggate and Frédéric Tavernini with the French choreographer Noé Soulier. These distinctive voices come together to create work of pure dance, performance and dance theatre. Matteo Fargion is the seventh interlocutor as well as the composer of the music and the overall piece, in an evening that introduces the DANCE ON ENSEMB LE.
During Konfrontacje Teatralne Festival, 3 selected solos will be presented.
The Lublin audience will surely remember the Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion duet, which was an absolute hit at the International Dance Theatres Festival a few years ago. This time, Matteo Fargion is coming back to Lublin with a show created within the only professional dance ensemble in Europe, which gathers great dancers of “retirement age”, that is 40 years for this profession. The author of the project, Madeleine Ritter, not only provided the artists with the space for their further development, but she also showed that the body of an experienced dancer has much more to offer.
Pianists get better and better until they drop dead, and composers usually produce their best work late in life. A dancer’s career ending at 40 makes no sense to me. I actually became a dancer in my 40s when I started making duets with Jonathan Burrows!
Matteo Fargion
Dance on ensemble is a project by DIE HL+ RITTER gUG funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union as part of DANCE ON, PASS ON, DREAM ON.