PATIOS

Patios, first solo by Olga de Soto, is based on the musical analysis of the scores of four of the twelve studies for piano, dedicated to Chopin, that Claude Debussy composed in 1915, as well as inspired by the text by French writer Claude Simon Berenice's hair.

The choreography was written on systems of mirrors and echoes, in which dance forms parallel reflections, precedes, highlights or reminds elements of the musical composition, at different spatial and temporal scales. Continuity, introduction of accidental elements, suspension and fall, attentiveness and silence, are the fundamental elements used to establish the relation between movement and space, which driving force is the enormous richness of Debussy's piano studies.

The formal relation established between different elements during this solo, travels through a series of states which gradually go through the body. The choreographer also observes how the introduction of disruptive elements changes a predefined corporeality. The quality of movement is mainly defined by continuity. It remembers the imprints of those "accidents", that gradually alterate the balance, in crescendo. This tension plays with disequilibrium, not as an end but as a means to reverse the baselines.

PRESS

choreography and performance Olga de Soto
music Claude Debussy (Studies for piano Nr. 7 for chromatic degrees, Nr. 9 for repeated notes, Nr. 10 oposite sonorities and Nr. 12 for chords)
lighting and sound Gaëtan van den Berg

© Jorge León

TOUR CALENDAR

8 AUG 1992, Festival La Chapelle-Les Brigittines, Les Brigittines, Brussels (BE)
05 OCT 1992, Les Lundis d’Addisson de Wit, Atelier St. Anne, Brussels (BE)
06 MAY 1993, Teatro Pradillo, Festival Madrid en Danza, Madrid (ES)
07 MAY 1993, Teatro Pradillo, Festival Madrid en Danza, Madrid (ES)
08 MAY 1993, Teatro Pradillo, Festival Madrid en Danza, Madrid (ES)
09 MAY 1993, Teatro Pradillo, Festival Madrid en Danza, Madrid (ES)
15 MAY 1993, Palais de Beaux-Arts de Charleroi (BE)
21 MAY 1993, Marató, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona (ES)
29 MAY 1993, La Porta, Barcelona (ES)
30 MAY 1993, La Porta, Barcelona (ES)
09 JULY 1993, Chisenhale Dance Space, London (UK)
07 SEP 1993, Bergen Internasjonale Teater, Bergen (NO)
08 SEP 1993, Bergen Internasjonale Teater, Bergen (NO)
03 DEC 1993, Teatro Juan del Enzina, Actividades Culturales Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca (ES)
04 DEC 1993, Teatro Juan del Enzina, Actividades Culturales Universidad de Salamanca, Salamanca (ES)
09 JUNE 1994, Duncan Center, Prague (CZ)
10 JUNE 1994, Duncan Center, Prague (CZ)
22 SEP 1994, Cinearte, Skite, Lisbon (PT)
06 FEB 1995, Les Chiroux, Liège (BE).
03 FEB 1996, Sala Olympia, Festival Dansa València ‘96, Valencia (ES)
16 APR 1996, Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelone, Barcelona (ES)
17 APR 1996, Centro de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelone, Barcelona (ES)