Édouard Lock/La la la Human Steps

AMJAD

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7,8,9,10 NOV 9.00 pm

TEATRO OLIMPICO

National Premiere
“Two works deep within collective memory that offer luxurious visual and narrative elements, this time ‘round become the field of an investigation halfway between transcription and re-appropriation”: this is how Édouard Lock explains the stimuli received from two ballets such as “Swan Lake” and “Sleeping Beauty” and outlines the spirit with which he proposes them by combining strength and poetry, tradition and modernity.
Amjad, a Moroccan name used for both genders, is the title given to the new creation by this revolutionary choreographer of Canadian nationality but who was born in Casablanca – an artist whose distinguishing traits are creative feverishness and provocation besides being endowed with an electrifyingly rapid and rigorously exact sense of movement.
In the past, Lock had already utilised classical dance to discover and create a new vocabulary, making the dancer jump on the tip of their toes in a setting that was furiously punk and getting for it the praise even of the harshest of critics. Transformation, awakening, sensuality: the archetypes of romantic ballet will this time be destructured and recomposed by a choreographer who has always been very sensitive to sexual ambiguity and to the superimposition of the male and the female.
To “narrate a story in the same stuff of those told before it” but in a contemporary dimension, Lock has also involved two composers of the calibre of David Lang and Gavin Bryars, who have reorchestrated and rewritten for “Amjad” Tchaikovsky’s music in a new version for chamber orchestra.

Édouard Lock is one of the greatest canadian choreographers, appreciated all over the world. He is the artistic director of La La La Human Steps, the dance company he founded in 1980. The company is regularly invited to perform abroad and Lock took part in Romaeuropa Festival in 2002.
David Lang was born in 1957 in the United States. Together with Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe, he gave life to the famous contemporary music festival “Bang on a can”, based in New York. He is the adventurous and prolific composer of several works, such as “The Difficulty of Crossing a Field” for the Kronos Quartet, and the prize-winning cartoon-opera “The Carbon copy Building“.
The composer Gavin Bryars was born in Yorkshire in 1943. He composed for William Forsythe, Merce Cunningham, Carolyn Carlson, Maguy Marin, Jiri Kylian, Siobhan Davies, Édouard Lock.

Co-presentation in Rome:
Romaeuropa Festival 2007 and Accademia Filarmonica Romana

Supported by
Ambasciata del Canada in Italia and Agenzia Culturale del Québec in Italia

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