En Atendant

5, 6 jun 21h30 / 9.30pm
Culturgest / alkantara festival

En Atendant é uma criação de 2010, estreada no Festival d’Avignon, no Cloître des Célestins. O ponto de partida de En Atendant é a Ars Subtilior, uma forma altamente refinada de música polifónica do século XIV. A dança evoca a natureza pura mas estratificada da música. Os bailarinos esperam à volta do palco, andam, dançam para o centro e para fora do centro. A poeira sob os pés dos bailarinos espalha-se gradualmente por todo o palco. À medida que a escuridão começa a envolver o palco, os corpos dos bailarinos vão-se tornando meras silhuetas, sombras, anunciando o desaparecimento.

In En Atendant, the starting point is Ars Subtilior, a complex and highly refined form of polyphonic music from the 14th century. The subdued, undulating dance in En Atendant beautifully evokes and compliments the pure but layered nature of the music and the dissonance and unusual contrasts that characterize it. Different constellations of bodies unfold in time and space. The dancers wait around the edges of the empty stage, walk, dance into and away from the center. The delicate transformations in the music are not only echoed in the subtlety and precision of the choreography but also in the changes undergone by the clean physical space. The dust underneath the dancers feet gradually travels across the entire stage, attaches itself to the performer’s bodies, is transported by the currents of air produced by their movements, their breathing. As darkness begins to envelop the stage, the dancer’s bodies become mere outlines, shadows, announcing disappearance.

Coreografia/Choreography Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker Criado com e dançado por/Created with and danced by Bostjan Antoncic, Carlos Garbin, Cynthia Loemij, Mark Lorimer, Mikael Marklund, Chrysa Parkinson, Sandy Williams, Sue-Yeon Youn Música/Music Ars Subtilior Músicos/Musicians Michael Schmid & Cour et Coeur, Bart Coen, An Van Laethem, Els Van Laethem Cenografia/Scenography Michel François Figurinos/Costumes Anne-Catherine Kunz Produção/Production Rosas Co-produção/Coproduction La Monnaie / De Munt  (Bruxelas/ Brussels), Festival Grec (Barcelona), Les Théâtres de la ville de Luxembourg, Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Festival d’Avignon, Concertgebouw Brugge