PRELUDIS
Choreography
and performance: Cesc Gelabert
Co-directors: Cesc Gelabert / Lydia Azzopardi
Piano: Jordi Camell
Music:
J .S. Bach (Prelude num. 4 / book 2 . Fuga num. 8 / book 2)
F. Chopin (Preludes num. 1, 6, 8, 9, 14, 15, 23, 24) )
C. Debussy (Preludes num. 9 / book 1 and num. 1, 3 / book 2)
F. Mompou (Preludes num. 6,11)
C. Santos (Punys, Cap, Dits, Rellotge, Repetitiva, Ocupació piano)
Premiere:
Hebbel Theater Berlin, february 2002
When the demigods were gathered to create human beings their
mind wandered for a moment and the modelling paste solidified.
The god of gods was outraged. Terrified and without knowing
what to do, a demigod suggested taking the rigid paste and
breaking it into pieces. Thus the skeleton was created: a collection
of splits, of divisions that make up the essence of the human
being's movement and location within space.
This is the way in which we cut time, break up perception and sculpt an imaginary
world by means of awareness. We establish the division between past, present
and future.
This work is based on the human cyclical relationship with
time, one of the universal mysteries that every individual
reflects on sooner or later. Starting from body, mind and emotions, PRELUDIS ‘An
imaginary instrument' makes a tour through time, expressing
fluidly and deeply the way the body becomes the very instrument
of the dancer, the imagined instrument upon which he builds
his universe.
The setting symbolises a clock. The hours are indicated by twelve objects, and
within this space the choreographer develops his movement.
The piece is structured around a selection of piano preludes by five composers:
Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Mompou and Carles Santos. Gelabert collects the essence
of these musical pieces to delineate five basic attributes of human being.
PRELUDIS is Gelabert's gaze on himself after thirty years as both dancer and choreographer,an expression of that crucial stage at which mental maturity exists equally with physical ability. He has chosen to share this moment with two long-time collaborators, Frederic Amat and Carles Santos. The controlled quality of this new solo, with its perfectly codified movements, is a summation of experience, maturity and beliefs.
GELABERT-AZZOPARDI is supported by the Culture Department of GENERALITAT DE CATALUNYA, MINISTERIO DE CULTURA -- I.N.A.E.M. and INSTITUT DE CULTURA DE L'AJUNTAMENT DE BARCELONA
Coproduction:
HEBBEL-THEATER, BERLIN
TEATRE LLIURE DE BARCELONA
GELABERT-AZZOPARDI CIA DE DANSA, BARCELONA
Collaboration:
SALA GALÁN, SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA
TANZFABRIK, BERLIN
