[Danse] Annonciation, Torpeur, Noces

ANNONCIATION was created in 1995 for two dancers. In this choreographic encounter between the Virgin Mary and the Archangel Gabriel, bodies approach, get to know each other and then submit. From carnal embraces to sudden gestures, this dramatically powerful duet questions creation, from the virtual to the incarnation of the real. Attention, tension, softness and aggressiveness of movement and music, the choreographer?s athletic and demanding style is brilliantly carried off by his two dancers.

TORPEUR, Angelin Preljocaj?s new creation, plunges us into this very special state of the body. A very special state that takes us back to our childhood memories, when summer seemed to last an eternity. When the heat brings to the body a kind of strange, almost metaphysical state, as if it didn?t want to be disturbed, making it slip into an almost floating state.

NOCES is a major piece in Angelin Preljocaj?s oeuvre, created in 1989 for ten dancers to a Stravinsky score based on the strange tradition of weddings in the Balkans, where the choreographer?s parents, both Albanian, originated. Steps, pirouettes, jumps, a continuous surge: in this frenzied round, halfway between folklore and modern dance, five rag dolls, candid and pathetic brides, are thrown into the air, stretched and disarticulated as if in a barbaric ritual. The couples attract each other, tame each other, but don't try to listen to each other, because the mass has already been said, to a certain extent.

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