MEDIATHEK

I. Soledad (19min.) Soledad is a slick, sexy and emotionally charged duet which explores the wild and tender sides of a relationship to the latin music of Mexican singer Chavela Vargas and Gidon Kremer’s Hommage to Piazzola. (Quelle: www.bonacheladancecompany.com) II. Curious conscience (24min.) A large ensemble piece for eighteen dancers, is yet another stunning work from this supremely gifted choreographer. For his music, Bonachela chose Benjamin Britten’s “Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings”, composed during the Second World War and itself set to six poems about sleep, night and dreams, including works by William Blake, John Keats and Alfred Lord Tennyson. The choreography too is very dark and full of torment. These dreams are menacing and nightmarish. The work opens and closes to a haunting horn solo, to which Bonachela has choreographed two equally disturbing solos, reflecting what is to come and what has gone. Gone, but it seems not forgotten. For these solos the dancers are dressed in white, but for the rest of the piece they are in simple black vests and shorts or skirts, always with sombre expressions, reflecting the mood. Each section, varying from all male or all female duets to whole ensembles, gives us something different. In contrast to the other two works on the programme, the choreography, full of Bonachela’s trademark sharpness, is mostly counter'musical, which makes it difficult to simultaneously listen to the words and concentrate on the dance. But because the moods of both words and dance are complimentary, this matters less. (Quelle: www.ballet-dance.com) III. Muse (10min.) Choreographer Rafael Bonachela and dancer Amy Hollingsworth have a special relationship, illustrated in this film made in 2004. They met when they were both dancers at Rambert Dance Company and Amy got involved in Rafael’s early creative work. When, in 2002, Rafael Bonachela choreographed Kyle Minogue’s Fever Tour, Amy was Assistant Choreographer and Rehearsal Director. In 2006, she became a founding member of Bonachela Dance Company and when Rafael Bonachela became Artistic Director of Sydney Dance Company, he invited her to join the company as a guest artist. Their latest collaboration, The Land of Yes and the Land of No, receives its UK premiere at Queen Elizabeth Hall on Friday 25 ' Saturday 26 September. (Quelle: dance.southbankcentre.co.uk) / jst