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Together with the dancers of FORWARD DANCE COMPANY by LOFFT – DAS THEATER and its artistic project director Gustavo Fijalkow, choreographer Alessandro Schiattarella takes a critical and personal look at one of the most famous works of classical ballet: Swan Lake.
Swan Lake – set to the music of Tchaikovsky – is one of the most famous works of classical ballet, and thus is also representative of a certain idealized body image. It continues to shape our viewing habits and expectations of dance today. The six dancers play with these expectations, weaving their experiences and voices – humorous and loud or quiet and threatening – into the piece, thus taking ownership of the story of Swan Lake.
The result of this immersive dance performance is a multi-layered mosaic of Swan Lake, which appears differently depending on the perspective. Initially fragmented, the dancers nevertheless come together to form a “collective, utopian human-machine-organism” (Steffen Georgi, in the Leipziger Volkszeitung).
SULLE SPONDE DEL LAGO – ON THE SHORES OF THE LAKE's critical and personal view of Swan Lake does not emerge from a vacuum but joins a tradition of iconic Swan Lake productions that have critically appropriated the material.
CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHY Alessandro Schiattarella
FROM + WITH Mouafak Aldoabl, Elsa Artmann, Renan Alves Manhães, Alfred Quarshie, Tamara Rettenmund, Lisa Zocher
DRAMATURGIE Gustavo Fijalkow
LIGHT+ SETDESIGN Thomas Giger
MUSIC Pável Aguilar
COSTUMES Giulia Marcotullio
PRODUKTIONMANAGEMENT BASEL / CINQUANTATRÉ Catalina Schriber
PRODUCTIONMANAGEMENT LEIPZIG / FDC Friederike Otte
PRODUKTION ASSISTANCE Alissa Sebri
ARTISTIC COLLABORATOR Alice Giuliani
ARTISTIC PROJECT DIRECTION FDC Gustavo Fijalkow
VIDEO Manuel Justo
PHOTOS Tom Dachs
SULLE SPONDE DEL LAGO – ON THE SHORES OF THE LAKE is a production of the FORWARD DANCE COMPANY of LOFFT – DAS THEATER and cinquantatré Basel in co-production with ROXY Birsfelden and euro-scene Leipzig.
Supported by TANZPAKT Stadt-Land-Bund with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, by the City of Leipzig - Cultural Office and by the Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism. This institution is co-financed by tax funds on the basis of the budget passed by the Saxon Parliament.
Supported by Bureau Ritter/TANZPAKT RECONNECT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR. Hilfsprogramm Tanz.
Funded by Fachausschuss Tanz & Theater BS/BL, by the Jaqueline Spengler Foundation, by Schweizerische Interpretenstiftung SIS, by the Ernst Göhner Foundation and by the Corymbo Foundation.
The FORWARD DANCE COMPANY is the in-house company of LOFFT – DAS THEATER and associate artist 2021/2022 of euro-scene Leipzig – EUROPÄISCHES TANZ- UND THEATERFESTIVAL.