“Indigo” by Paco Dècina (France)
By Stefano • May 18th, 2008 • Category: Agenda| June 14, 2008 9:00 pm | a | June 15, 2008 9:00 pm |
INDIGO
by Paco Dècina
production Compagnia Post-Retroguardia Paco Dècina
in coproduction with Bourges, Maison de la Culture, Théâtre de la Cité Internationale di Parigi, Trident – Scéne National de Cherburg – Octeville, La Rive Gauche – Théâtre de Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray
supported by Ville de Paris
14th, 15th June 9.00pm
Prima Nazionale
duration 90′
location: Auditorium Domenico Scarlatti della RAI
original music Winter Familly
light-design Laurent Schneegans
costume Valeria Apicella
dancers Valeria Apicella, Noriko Matsuyama, Orin Camus, Paco Dècina, Carlo Locatelli et Takashi Ueno
music recordered by Xavier Klaine (composition, piano, harmonica), Ruth Rosenthal (text, voix)
musicians Sylvain Favre, Fabien Lehalle, Olivier Robert, Norsola Johnson, Olivier Demeaux
costume realization Pascal Vanlef
Indigo is a choreography for six dancers focused on the light: a light embraced and fought, dragged along in each motion. Dancers look for each other and “intertwine” with chaste sensuality, to give themselves up to a motion that seems to reveal the secret of the body language in a choreography reduced to its mere essence. «In the past years – Dècina maintains – I have been investigating on what is revealed and highlighted by the light, on how it transforms moving bodies and how its rhythms and frequencies reveal to us something about “impalpability”».
Indigo identifies a new phase in the choreographer’s and dancer’s research process who places intuition and memory at disposal of the dance. As explained by Dècina, this performance is «a frequency, a quality of the glance, a sensitivity threshold, a colouring matrix, a chromatic vibration, a mood that will transform the mass of the dancing bodies beating out their rhythm with its frequencies. Indigo’s colour is the deep colour of the night when it secretly gets ready to turn purple.»
Born in Naples, Paco Dècina gets in touch with dance when he meets the American choreographer Bob Curtis, who teaches him the African-Cuban techniques. He works with different companies in Rome where he gets familiar with contemporary dance and American techniques. In 1984 he moves to Paris where, two years later, teaches at the Municipal Conservatory of Champigny-sur Marne.
In 1986 he founds the company Post-Retroguardia and, one year later, is awarded the prize Chorégraphie de la Ménagerie de Verre with Tempi morti, a choreography created for five dancers. His works also include: Circumvesuviana (1988), Scilla e Cariddi (1990), Vestigia di un corpo (1991), Ciro Esposito fu Vincenzo (1993), Il Banchetto di Sabbia e Ottobre in chiaro e oscuro (1994), Mare Rubato (1996), Trasparenze (1997), Lettre au silence (1998). In 2000 he creates, for the corps de ballet of the Maggio Fiorentino, the choreography Campi Magnetici on Franco Battiato’s original musics. His latest works are: Non era giorno, non era notte (2002), Soffio (2003), Salto nel Vuoto (2005), Chevaliers sans armure (2006).
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