Johan Inger’s Negro con Flores<\/i> (2005) was a sound success on its opening at Dansens Hus. Acclaimed for his surprising light design and subtle choreography, the work heralded the start of a new movement idiom and design language for Inger.<\/p>\n
\u201dNegro con Flores exists in a landscape between darkness and light, levity and gravity. It progresses through a formation of moods with the goal of breaking loose, moving on. This piece is an attempt to deviate from the path I know and by doing so, hopefully find new beginnings.\u201d<\/em> \u2013 Johan Inger, 2005<\/p>\n Duration about 35 minutes. \u201cBut it is in Negro con Flores that he surprises us with a new approach. Something of the cocky leaps and lifts of street dancers feature in this work, which swings between tenderness and brutality. \u201d<\/em> “The movements are mixed with an edginess reminiscent of slapstick or cartoons, the dance around a bouquet of roses in particular has comic force and features surprising elements. Inger exploits the Cullberg dancers’ unique combination of technique and drama.” Johan Inger’s Negro con Flores (2005) was a sound success on its opening at Dansens Hus. Acclaimed for his surprising light design and subtle choreography, the work heralded the start of a new movement idiom and design language for Inger. \u201dNegro con Flores exists in a landscape between darkness and light, levity and gravity. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1663,"template":"","class_list":["post-15251","archived_performance","type-archived_performance","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archived_performance\/15251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archived_performance"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/archived_performance"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.cullberg.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nMusic: Stefan Levin
\nPremiere danced by: Rei Watanabe, Thomas Zamolo, Alexander Ekman, Tilman O\u2019Donnell, Hl\u00edn Diego Hj\u00e1lmarsd\u00f3ttir<\/p>\nPress clippings<\/h3>\n
\n\u2013 Expressen 05.11.2006<\/p>\n
\n\u2013 G\u00f6teborgs-Posten 06.11.2005<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"