Dance solo

29/11/2016, 20:30
Kino Šiška – Katedrala
Tickets: 7 € presale, 10 € at the door
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Over the last fifty years of contemporary dance tasks, commands and scores, formed into different sign systems, started to replace the instance of choreographer’s value and style to a large degree, while conceptual art, which drew an equation between the subject, its representation and the language it analyses and reflects upon, became an integral part of the contemporary dance art. In his virtuoso Solo on Bach and Glenn, dancer and choreographer Albert Quesada merged Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1742) performed by the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould with the pianist’s explanations of his own interpretative procedure (interview from 1981) and used them as a choreography score. The performance presents a figurative and conceptually synthetic approach to a dance solo which made a step further from the now legendary interpretation of these same Variations performed by Steve Paxton.

The 1742 musical Keyboard Practice, today known as The Goldberg Variations, is the origin of the solo dance performance by the Spanish-born choreographer and dancer. The dance is based on a score, lines of instructions for dancers, created in tight connection to the music.

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Choreography: Albert Quesada
Performed by: Albert Quesada
Music: Outtakes of recordings from Glenn Gould’s Goldberg Variations by J. S. Bach, 1955. Interview with Glenn Gould about his recording on 1981 of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations
Produced by: Albert Quesada & P.A.R.T.S.
Thanks to: Mårten Spångberg, Salva Sanchís

Duration: 26 minutes

Organised by: Kino Šiška and NDA.