MEDIATHEK

La Vie qui bat is Ginette Laurin's encounter with the music of Steve Reich, the outcome of a challenge to the choreographer, made by Walter Boudreau, artistic director of SMCQ (Société de musique contemporaine du Québec), to create a work based on the American composer's celebrated piece, Drumming. The resulting piece, a celebration of brute energy, is made up of sequences whose intensity resides in the concentration on detail rather than in broad gestures. The rhythm is resoutely anchored in the body. Following the musical score and what it suggests, the dance unfolds in a play of opposites--between gravity and weightlessness, order and chaos, urban and tribal. (Quelle: http://www.overtigo.com) / jst