WINNSBORO COTTON MILL BLUES

In the duet Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, based on the eponymous composition by Frederic Rzewski, the dance springs from one idea: a liberating movement which mounts through the body starting from the feet, which are fixed to the floor, travelling to the hips, where it makes its home. The energy of the movement holds a sort of silent revolt, a challenge established with the rhythm, in relation to time in space.

Frederic Rzewski's composition is part of the cycle Four North American Ballads, where the composer sets four folk songs that are linked with activist movements in American history. It is based on a cotton-mill workers' song from the 1930s in South Carolina, the region in the United States where at the time the workers were the least connected to the labour unions.

Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues is the second work of the programme of short choreographies Paumes.

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choreography Olga de Soto
music Frederic Rzewski (Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues, for two pianos)
played by Sachiko Yoshida and Michaël Frohnmeyer (music live version and recorded music version)
costumes Pascale Gigon and Olga de Soto
lighting Gaëtan van den Berg

duo created and performed by Olga de Soto and Pascale Gigon

TOUR CALENDAR

22 NOV 1996, ENGAGEMENTS, Plateau, Bruxelles (BE) — avant-première
23 NOV 1996, ENGAGEMENTS, Plateau, Bruxelles (BE) — avant-première
24 NOV 1996, ENGAGEMENTS, Plateau, Bruxelles (BE) — avant-première
03 DEC 1996, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse (FR)
04 DEC 1996, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse (FR)
05 DEC 1996, Centre de Développement Chorégraphique de Toulouse (FR)
14 MAR 1997, Ars Musica ‘97, Le Botanique, Brussels (BE)
09 APR 1997, Pôle Sud, Festival “Nouvelles Strasbourg Danse”, Strasbourg (FR)
29 APR 1997, Teatro Principal, Día Internacional de la Danza, Valence (ES)
11 MAY 1997, Festival Via 97, Soirée Muybridge, Palais des Beaux Arts, Charleroi (BE)
11 JUNE 1997, Festival de la Nouvelle Danse d’Uzès, Uzès (FR)
12 JUNE 1997, Festival de la Nouvelle Danse d’Uzès, Uzès (FR)
05 OCT 1997, Teatro Nacional de las Artes, Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico D.F (MEX)
07 OCT 1997, Paumes, Théâtre de la Balsamine, Brussels (BE)
08 OCT 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 DEC 1998, Paumes, La Halle aux Grains Scène Nationale, Blois (FR)
14 FEB 1998, Paumes, Relais Culturel Château Rouge, Annemasse (FR)
14 MAR 1998, Festival Art-Danse, Théâtre des Feuillants, Dijon (FR)
28 APR 1998, Paumes, Le Cratère Scène Nationale, Alès (FR)
15 - 31 JULY 1998, Les Hivernales d’été, Festival d'Avignon, Avignon (FR)
16 SEP 1998, Les Plateaux, Biennale de la Danse du Val-de-Marne (FR)
07 NOV 1998, Biennale de la Danse du Val-de-Marne (FR)
27 NOV 1998, Théâtre de l’Olivier, Les Nuits de la danse, Istres (FR)
09 MAR 1999, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris (FR)
16 APR 1999, Festival Plurielles, Théâtre Saragosse, Pau (FR)
17 MAY 1999, CRDC, Le Club des 5, Nantes (FR)
21 MAY 1999, Festival Mai-danse, Centre Culturel Aragon, Tremblay-en-France (FR)
18 OCT 1999, Dance Theatre Festival ‘99, Prague (CZ)
19 OCT 1999, Dance Theatre Festival ‘99, Prague (CZ)
04 DEC 1999, Nom donné (Winnsboro) par l’auteur, Isadora Danses au Centre, Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours, Tours (FR)
04 FEB 2000, Festival Danse Émoi, Limoges (FR)
05 FEB 2000, Le Vivat, Armentières (FR)
09 APR 2000, Festival Voix de Femmes, Halles De Schaerbeek, Brussels (BE)
07 SEP 2000, Nom donné (Winnsboro) par l’auteur, Théâtre de Château-Gontier (FR)
01 JUNE 2001, Festival Lugar a Dança, Lisbon (PT)
03 JUNE 2001, Festival Lugar a Dança, Lisbon (PT)