STRUMENTALE

In Strumentale, based on a daring project by Stefano Scodanibbio, the two dancers gasp as if in response to the double bass, of which only the loose strings are being played. The music seems to appear from deep inside the dancers' diaphragms, driving and restraining their movements in polyphony of stifled rhythms: sonorous and gestural bodies, incarnating themselves in densities and presences. The on-stage musician polarises the space around his fixed position, with the dance itself cut off as if occurring on the edge of a dismantled space where a suspended, slowly revolving boom crossing the visual field, only adds to the destabilisation of relations.

Laurence Louppe

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choreography Olga de Soto
music Stefano Scodanibbio (Strumentale, solo for double-bass)
played by Stefano Scodanibbio (both live music version and recorded music version)
scenography and costumes Thibault Vancraenenbroeck
lighting and sound Gaëtan van den Berg

duo created and performed by Olga de Soto and Pascale Gigon

© Laurent Lafolie

TOUR CALENDAR

05 OCT 1997, Teatro Nacional de las Artes, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico D.F (MEX)
07 NOV 1997, Paumes, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Brussels (BE)
08 NOV 1997, Paumes, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Brussels (BE)
21 NOV 1997, Paumes, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
22 NOV 1997, Paumes, Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR)
13 FEB 1998, Paumes, La Halle aux Grains Scène Nationale, Blois (FR)
14 FEB 1998, Paumes, Relais Culturel Château Rouge, Annemasse (FR)
28 APR 1998, Paumes, Le Cratère Scène Nationale, Alès (FR)
03 MAY 1998, Festival Via ‘98, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi (BE)
16 APR 1999, Festival Plurielles, Théâtre Saragosse, Pau (FR)
21 MAY 1999, Festival Mai-danse, Centre Culturel Aragon, Tremblay-en-France (FR)
26 JUNE 1999, Festival Agora, IRCAM, Paris (FR)
18 OCT 1999, Dance Theatre Festival ‘99, Prague (CZ)
19 OCT 1999, Dance Theatre Festival ‘99, Prague (CZ)
04 FEB 2000, Festival Danse Émoi, Limoges (FR)