Performance with Cocktail Party
DRESS CODE: ELEGANT
UNPAIR
Choreography: Ella Rothschild
Performers: Maria Kochetkova, Sebastian Kloborg, Alexander McKenzie
Pianist: Alexander McKenzie
Music: Franz Schubert
Costumes: Grith Deleuran
Lighting designer: Roger Irman
Artistic director of KAMMERBALLETTEN: Alexander McKenzie
Unpair is a duet made for Maria Kochetkova and Sebastian Kloborg as part of Kammerballetten festival in Copenhagen.
KAMMERBALLETTEN is a company / festival which presents world premieres of new ballets in Copenhagen, Denmark, at the Royal Danish Opera House, as well as touring around the world.“The mix of physical meltdown and verbal explosion with Schubert’s romantic aesthetic seems just as surprising as it makes sense, when the subject is different ways we kill one another and each other dreams”, “An outstanding display of mental breakdown”. Majbrit Hjelmsbo, Weekendavisen
“Maria Kochetkova is so intense that it hurts”. Henriette Devantier, Sceneblog
“Once again, Maria Kochetkova and Sebastian Kloborg deliver an outstanding performance.”
“A baroque and humorous take on the theme of love, life and death, here as a war between lovers on a Persian carpet.” Monna Dithmer, Politiken.
“A dreamlike dance of stilettos and intimacy”. Anne Middelboe, Information.
“a tragicomic and grotesque theater duo”. Vibeke Wern, Danstidningen
QUEL CARNEVALE A RIO
Choreography: Adriano Bolognino
Dancer: Jacopo Giarda
Assistente alla coreografia: Rosaria di Maro
“Più ho voglia di piangere e più gli uomini si divertono, ma non importa, io li perdono, un po’ perché essi non sanno, un po’ per amor Tuo e un po’ perché hanno pagato il biglietto. Se le mie buffonate servono ad alleviare le loro pene, rendi pure questa mia faccia ancora più ridicola, ma aiutami a portarla in giro con disinvoltura. C’è tanta gente che si diverte a far piangere l’umanità,
noi dobbiamo soffrire per divertirla. Manda, se puoi, qualcuno su questo mondo, capace di far ridere me come io faccio ridere gli altri.”
Antonio De Curtis – Totò
PRIOR TO AND AFTER
Bored, fickle, and capricious, the gods yield to the fervent prayers of a nymph, allowing her body to forever unite with that of her beloved. In embracing the features of both, Hermaphrodite becomes a symbol of the perpetual coexistence of opposites.
CHOREOGRAPHY: Emanuela Tagliavia
MUSIC: Giampaolo Testoni
DANCERS: Asia Matteazzi, Domenico Di Cristo
COSTUMES: Linda Riccardi
SLEEPING INVADER
dancers: Eugenia Brezzi, Jacopo Garda
music: IS TROPICAL, Oneohtrix Point Never & Iggy Pop
choreography, costume idea, and light design: Philippe Kratz
A hint, a signal.
Lost at sea, trying to decipher what was said.
Reading between the lines, never quite there.
The fog is rising, murmurs, last week’s conversation louder and more acute now.
Effortlessly not connecting.
Chasing.
A whisper, a thought, a door slamming.
Say you’ll pay better attention next time.
The need for closeness.
You promised me poems.
SINKING
Choreographers: Sasha Riva & Simone Repele
Dancers: Sasha Riva and Simone Repele
song title: “Jesus Blood never Failed me yet” – “The sinking of the Titanic”
Composer: Gavin Bryars
Album: Jesus Blood never Failed me yet
Duration: ca. 10 min
Label: Classical Crossover – 2016 – Lossless
” Two destroyed souls meet in a timeless space with a muffled atmosphere like two bodies after a catastrophe”
