El canto nómada

El canto nómada

el canto nómada: Andando se hace camino

The nomadization has become the model situation of many people.
There are the voluntary migrants searching for change and cultural mobility and the involuntary nomadic people, forced to departure or flight.
The latter are exposed to extreme borderline situations, which cost their highest force and life intensity to go their way. Their arduous migration is directed at a place of confidence and invulnerability. ItÂ’s the idea of the always possible recommencement, which leads them further on their path as a leitmotif.

‘el canto nómdadaÂ’, our nomadic song, lends the voice to the nomadic people forced to the exile, whose contradictory condition is cited by the lyricist Hilde Domin, a nomad herself, in her poem ‘drifting landscapeÂ’.
ItÂ’s the voice which asks for the courage to go away and to change without a loss of oneÂ’s own identity. Moving on without loosing oneÂ’s footing. ‘el canto nómadaÂ’ is an approach to the world of those who are in transit, who are thereby exposed to existential dangers and who are nevertheless always moving forward.

An inexplicable power, a collective rhythm forces here a group of women to obliviously continue their way in the dark. They own nothing firm.
Their possessions are also their cover and their shelter. Just carrying the most essential things with them, they wring every spark of life out of destiny . Their ‘Dance from the today to the tomorrow’ is an expression of intensive perception of the moment and overcoming the fear of life.
A quality of life which corresponds to the flamenco in his naturalness. The flamenco in his essence is a nomadic singing. The nomadic as characteristic trait lies in his history of constant movement and change. The flamenco has survived migration of the peoples, racial discrimination and wars and has assimilated strange and new things on his journey, without letting himself assimilate.

From old forms and rituals there are constantly created new ones. The flamenco, whose vital form of expression reveals the inescapable, the dark as well as the hopeful visions, today also develops by interpreters of different mould and origin. The old doesnÂ’t exclude the new and the other way round.

Team

Premiere, 17.10.1997, Baden, Kurtheater

ChoreographyBrigitta Luisa Merki
Choreography assistance/trainingChristine Neumeyer
Director assistanceMaria Eugenia d'Aquino, Teatro Arsenale, Milano
DanceRocio Acosta
Miguel Angel
Ania Losinger
Carmen Orta
Manoli Rodriguez Outon
Elena Vicini
Judith Zapatero
GuitarEl Niño de la Leo
Juan Antonio Gomez
SingerJeronimo 'Momi de Cadiz'
Reyes Martin
Flamenco singerCarmen Linares
VoicesMartina Bovet
Sylvia Nopper
Barbara Sutter
Lina Maria Åkerlund
Recording directionJürg Fehr
Jürg Fehr
Sound recordingsPeter Pfister
Mobiles Tonstudio
MusicAntonio Robledo
PercussionJürg Fehr
PianoAntonio Robledo
Stage realizationRoy Spahn
WorkshopRoli Altermatt
Pitt Hartmeier
Thomas Küng
Roy Spahn
PaintingHerta Eppler-Joggi
CostumesCarmen Perez Mateos
Barbara Rutishauser
LightingStephan Haller
Thomas Küng
PhotosChristian Altorfer
Marc Funk
AdministrationPitt Hartmeier
DiagramRose Müller
Stage designBrigitta Luisa Merki
Tai Chi and breathing trainingJürg Fehr

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Press

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El canto nómada

Badische Zeitung

„El canto nómada", with a wonderful composition by the innovative composer and ballet director, Antonio Robledo, (...) and the terrific voices, such as that of the Flamenco singer, Carmen Linares, which is greatly complemented by the exciting choreography of the artistic director, Brigitta Luisa Merki. Merki and Robledo have set a benchmark for touring theatre.

Badische Zeitung, 28.02.1998


Neue Zürcher Zeitung

„El canto nómada" Robledo has managed to evolve completely new sounds and images from the atmosphere of the Flamenco, an ever purer and ever more audible expression. (...) Like the composer, Merki extends the possibilities for expression, elements in the highly expressive dance routines enrich the vocabulary, are clever and are used to suit the situation with perfect results.

Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 17.12.1997


Neue Luzerner Zeitung

What power, what faces, what women!

Neue Luzerner Zeitung, 00.00.0000


Morgenpost am Sonntag, Dresden

Who could have dared to hope for this? Six women on the huge stage at the Kulturpalast. Flamenco dancers brimming with character, presence and power, and these she-devils really did manage to cast a spell over the audience of over 2000 people, across the entire expanse of the auditorium, and possibly across all boundaries of expectation as well (...) that really is art in the truest sense: the ability to captivate audiences on any stage, large or small (...). At the end, there was special applause for Brigitta Luisa Merki, dancer and choreographer.

Morgenpost am Sonntag, Dresden, 00.00.0000


Tour Dates

DateTimePlaceTheatreAdvance BookingComment
17.10.199719:30BadenKurtheaterUraufführung
18.10.199720:00BadenKurtheater
19.10.199720:00BadenKurtheater
21.10.199720:00AarauSaalbau
22.10.199720:00AarauSaalbau
23.10.199720:00AarauSaalbau
29.10.199720:00Verscio, TITeatro Dimitri
30.10.199720:00Verscio, TITeatro Dimitri
31.10.199720:00Verscio, TITeatro Dimitri
04.11.199720:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
05.11.199717:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
05.11.199721:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
06.11.199720:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
07.11.199720:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
08.11.199720:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
09.11.199717:00Verscio, TITeatro Dimitri
09.11.199721:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
11.11.199720:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
13.11.199720:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
14.11.199720:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
15.11.199720:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
18.11.199720:00BernDampfzentrale, Turbinensaal
19.11.199720:00BernDampfzentrale, Turbinensaal
20.11.199720:00BernDampfzentrale, Turbinensaal
21.11.199720:00BernDampfzentrale, Turbinensaal
22.11.199720:00BernDampfzentrale, Turbinensaal
23.11.199720:00BernDampfzentrale, Turbinensaal
24.11.199720:00BernDampfzentrale, Turbinensaal
27.11.199720:00EssenStadtsaal Essen
16.12.199720:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
17.12.199720:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
18.12.199720:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
19.12.199720:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
20.12.199720:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
21.12.199720:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
27.02.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
28.02.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
01.03.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
04.03.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
06.03.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
07.03.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
08.03.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
27.03.199820:00NeumünsterStadttheater
29.03.199820:00GöttingenJunges Theater
30.03.199820:00GöttingenJunges Theater
03.04.199820:00OldenburgStaatstheater
04.04.199820:00RastattBadner Halle
24.04.199820:00WilhelmshavenStadthalle
29.04.199820:00WettingenWetti 98, Tägerhard
30.04.199820:00WettingenWetti 98, Tägerhard
01.05.199820:00WettingenWetti 98, Tägerhard
02.05.199820:00WettingenWetti 98, Tägerhard
03.05.199820:00WettingenWetti 98, Tägerhard
06.05.199820:00Düsseldorf/Dtanzhaus nrw
07.05.199820:00Düsseldorf/Dtanzhaus nrw
08.05.199820:00Düsseldorf/Dtanzhaus nrw
17.07.199820:00AddaAdda danza, Sommerfestival
20.07.199820:00LoanaFreilichtfestival 1998
30.07.199820:00Bozenint. Balletsommer
01.08.199820:00RoveretoSommerfestspiele
04.08.199820:00NeuenburgFestival de Dance, Théâtre de la Ville
13.10.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
14.10.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
15.10.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
16.10.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
17.10.199820:00StuttgartTheaterhaus
31.10.199820:00LodiTeatro comunale
02.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
03.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
04.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
05.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
06.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
07.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
08.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
10.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
11.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
12.11.199820:00Mailand/Milano/MilanTeatro Litta
15.11.199820:00BernGala SDT
21.11.199820:00BadenKurtheater
22.11.199820:00BadenKurtheater
24.11.199820:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
26.11.199820:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
27.11.199820:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
28.11.199820:00LuzernKulturhallen Boa
30.11.199820:00WohlenKantiforum
01.12.199820:00Reinach, AGSaalbau
02.12.199820:00ZofingenStadtsaal, Zofingen
04.12.199820:00VitznauAula
15.12.199820:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
16.12.199820:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
17.12.199820:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
18.12.199820:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
19.12.199820:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
20.12.199820:00ZürichTheaterhaus Gessnerallee
23.01.199920:00TrentoTeatro comunale
25.01.199920:00BergamoTeatro Donizetti
26.01.199920:00WinterthurTheater Winterthur
25.05.199920:00BirsfeldenRoxy
26.05.199920:00BirsfeldenRoxy
27.05.199920:00BirsfeldenRoxy
28.05.199920:00BirsfeldenRoxy
29.05.199920:00BirsfeldenRoxy
30.05.199920:00BirsfeldenRoxy
04.06.199920:00DresdenMusikfestspiele im Zwinger
30.11.199920:00StuttgartTheaterhaus