In what had become a tradition of sorts the dancers of the Cullberg Ballet presented a varied and rich even of their own work at Moderna Dans Teatern (MDT). Taking place in the spring of 2010, this series of performances marked the third time Moderna Dans Teatern (MDT) had hosted the Cullberg Ballet in this capacity.
Cullberg Ballet’s dancers Anton Valdbauer, Victoria Roberts, Isaac Spencer and Marylise Tanvet created a solo each. Adam Schütt and Rachel Tess co-choreographed a work, and Joaquim de Santana made a duet for dancers Anton Valdbauer and Sylvie Gehin Karlsson.
Estas Solo
Choreography / dancer: Anton Valdbauer
Music: Clint Mansell, The Last Man, Tree of Life, John Murphy, The Beginning
Thanks to everyone who made this evening possible. TD department, Nina, Malin, Åsa. To Anna for everything. And specially to Maria Elena for her help, support, understanding and love.
“Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”
William Dement
Outside the Box
Choreography / dancer: Victoria Roberts
Music: The Books, It Never Changes to Stop, 8 Frame, Antonio Vivaldi, Concerto No. 6, in A minor from L’Estro Armonico, op. 3.
With thanks to Cullberg Ballet for this opportunity, and to James MacGillivray for his love, support and guidance.
”… Every education system on Earth is predicated on the idea of academic ability, and the consequence is that many highly talented, brilliant, creative people think they are not, because the thing they were good at at school was not valued or was actually stigmatized. There is not an education system on the planet that teaches dance every day to children the way we teach them mathematics. I think math is very important, but so is dance. Children dance all the time if they’re allowed to, we all do.… Creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status… By the time they get to be adults most kids have lost that capacity, or rather get educated out of it. We stigmatize mistakes, and we’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can do, and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities… ”
Abbreviated from Sir Ken Robinson’s TED lecture, 2006, www.ted.com.
Le Vo (y) age
Choreography / dancer: Marylise Tanvet
Music: Trentemøller Moan, Miss You Opto 11.45 p.m.
My first Solo / Impro project, Work-in-progress.
“Le Vo (y) age is an interpretation of many emotional pathways. Worn by insoluble questions and tireless doubts. Have I lived in an illusion or was it for real? Will I accept reality? Yes, it is in front of me and I confront it. A common struggle along the same path. “
Thanks to Anna, Sylvie, Ophélie and my daughter Félicia.
My Leg is Your Leg
Improvisation/scenografi/idé: Adam Schütt och Rachel Tess
Musik: Larkin Grimm, Little Weeper
Erlkönig
Koreografi/dansare: Isaac Spencer
Musik: Hahn Rowe, Yellow Smile
Who’s riding so late where winds blow wild
It is the father grasping his child;
He holds the boy embraced in his arm,
He clasps him snugly, he keeps him warm.
«My son, why cover your face in such fear?»
«You see the elf-king, father? He’s near!
The king of the elves with crown and train!»
«My son, the mist is on the plain.»
‹Sweet lad, o come and join me, do!
Such pretty games I will play with you;
On the shore gay flowers their color unfold,
My mother has many garments of gold.›
«My father, my father, and can you not hear
The promise the elf-king breathes in my ear?»
«Be calm, stay calm, my child, lie low:
In withered leaves the night-winds blow.»
‹Will you, sweet lad, come along with me?
My daughters shall care for you tenderly;
In the night my daughters their revelry keep,
They’ll rock you and dance you and sing you to sleep.›
«My father, my father, o can you not trace
The elf-king›s daughters in that gloomy place?»
«My son, my son, I see it clear
How grey the ancient willows appear.»
‹I love you, your comeliness charms me, my boy!
And if you’re not willing, my force I’ll employ.›
«Now father, now father, he’s seizing my arm.
Elf-king has done me a cruel harm.»
The father shudders, his ride is wild,
In his arms he’s holding the groaning child,
Reaches the court with toil and dread. –
The child he held in his arms was dead.
Adapted from the poem Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1782.
Translation by Edwin Zeydel, 1955.
Special thanks to Sebastian Gehrke.
Residual
Koreografi: Joaquim de Santana
Musik: Ólafur Arnald, Himininn er að hrynja – En stjönurnar fara þér vel, Thomas Dybdahl, Don’t Lose Yourself
Dansare: Anton Valdbauer och Sylvie Gehin Karlsson
A path stayed in the memory
Stood in front of it and missed what never existed
In silence the trace of time is frozen it’s the end of
thinking about thinking.
The coldness of the known path is no longer felt
Will you be my light
I ask you cause you are me and I am you.