Classical Ballet "Altro Canto" World famous Bolshoi Ballet and Opera theatre (established 1776) - Marvellous Main (Historic) Stage
Running time: 38 minutes
Schedule for "Altro Canto" 2022
Ballet company: Monte Carlo Ballet (Les Ballets de Monte Carlo) Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Premiere of this production: 19 April 2006, Grimaldi Forum Monaco
Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot Music: Claudio Monterverdi, Biagio
Marini, Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger Music played by the Ensemble Akademia
conducted by Francoise Lasserre Costumes: Karl Lagerfeld Scenography:
Rolf Sachs Duration : 38 min
«It has been a
while since I last worked with a musical style whose only aim would be visual
resonance. The music of Monteverdi, with its kinetic power, offers me a space
open to the senses, to oppositions and deviations and allows me to suggest
choreography as a science of perception, perception as a place of movement and
of passage - an interior journey which produces the vibration of space and sound
in resonance with the physical wave of the dancers. With Monteverdi, we are not
in the psychology but in the all encompassing emotion, the trembling, the
constant movement from one emotion to the other. To grasp that without stopping
it or rigidifying it, to enter into the tension, harness the flux, the jolts,
the discordances, to remain sensitive to it, is the choreographic challenge
here.
The arch of candles, which constitutes a kind of setting is a gentle light
which is almost liturgical. It underlines the architecture of the body, marks
the postures, the accents, the states, the motifs drawn by the limbs of the
dancers and intensely focuses the regard on the details, the curve of the
movement. Its flickering and its folds, like the regard, stops in statue like
form, on the fold of a gesture, the ribbed aplomb of a dress or the grimace of a
gargoyle. The music of Monteverdi, with its dialectic, changing and mobile
in gesture, in technique, and in form and colour, which creates harmony by
juxtaposing opposites, also brings to my mind the masculine/feminine duality
which makes up each person. Again, I think of cathedral architecture, of these
imposing monuments where force and mastery intensify the weightlessness and the
impression of a certain fragility. The dancer more than anyone else is able
grasp this polyphony which exists within each individual, these different
textures which each person experiences intimately but which he often embodies as
force fields which are harmful and which exclude.
This music, because it does not itself dance, requires that the dancers go to
the extremes of themselves, of their work as artists, that they find their own
colour, and beyond formal virtuosity, search the texture, the living fibre of
their body, passionate, rich and complex, like the music which passes through
them. It is not a question of simply "making" some movements, but of letting
these movements become, of listening to what this music calls to within which is
fundamental, of making these sonorous moods heard, of sharing an intimate
experience, of letting go to the effusion so many secrets about themselves.
They are the ones who write the poem. I only bring it to
life.» Jean-Christophe Maillot
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Schedule for "Altro Canto" 2022
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