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Photo: Joris-Jan Bos
On this photo: Megumi Nakamura, Philippa Buckingham

Choreographer: Jiří Kylián

“A journey in time - light and space, addressing the ambiguity of aesthetics - performances and dreams.
Finding beauty in a grimace - in a knot of the mind - or in a physical contortion. It is like trying to perform a balancing act on the string of your umbilical cord.

When does the performing act start? - When we are born or when the curtain rises? - Does it all end when we walk off the stage - or is there no end to the performance?
What is a masquerade? - The clothes we wear in the street or the stage costume?
Between so-called art and artificiality - between the reality of life or fantasy - this twilight zone creates a tension which is of interest to me.

It is like standing on the edge of a dream. Standing in darkness and staring into a sharp light with closed eyes - doubting every bit of our so-called reality.
The moment in which dream intrudes into our lives and life into our dreams - this is the point of my curiosity.
Simply - a feeling of falling down in a dream and waking up with a broken rib.” - Jiří Kylián

Details

  • Title: Bella Figura
  • Date Created: 1995
  • Rights: © Joris-Jan Bos Photography
  • Choreographer: Jiří Kylián
  • Music: Lukas Foss - Lento from Salomon Rossi Suite (1975) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Stabat Mater - opening Lukas Foss - Andante Alessandro Marcello - Adagio from hobo-concerto in D-minor Antonio Vivaldi - Andante from - Concert for 2 mandolines and strings Giuseppe Torelli - Grave - Concerto grosso, 8 nr. 6 (1698) Giovanni Battista Pergolesi - Stabat Mater, Quando Corpus
  • Light: Jiří Kylián (concept), Tom Bevoort (realization)
  • Decor: Jiří Kylián
  • Costumes: Joke Visser
  • World Premiere: October 12, 1995, AT&T Danstheater, The Hague

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