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Bolero. Tanz der Feuertaube
Bolero. Tanz der Feuertaube
The dancing fire pigeon from Silja Walter's poetry draws its circles above the events unfolding on stage and weaves dance, music and painting into one genre-crossing total work of art. In a unique collaborative project created by the dance company Flamencos en route and the music ensemble CHAARTS, 10 male and female dancers and 10 musicians discover new dimensions of dance and sound in Maja Hürst's visual art. The monastic church becomes a refuge for artists and presents new interpretations of Ravel's Bolero by allowing it to interact with flamenco improvisations, compositions by Antonio Robledo, and classical music.
Team
| Artistic director | Brigitta Luisa Merki |
| Tanzcompagnie Flamencos en route | Dance: Eloy Aguilar Natalia Alcalá Iván Amaya Mohamed Benchegra Carmen Coy Cristina San Gregorio Carmen Iglesias Ricardo Moro Karima Nayt Jesús Perona Guitar: Juan Gomez Pascual de Lorca Singer: Karima Nayt Vicente Gelo |
| Music ensemble CHAARTS | Arta Arnicane, piano Ronny Spiegel, violin Felix Froschhammer, violin Flavia Grubenmann, violin Markus Fleck, viola Andreas Fleck, cello, Leitung Fabio di Casola, clarinet Klaasje Nieuwhof, flute Matej Varga, bass |
| Mural | Maja Hürst |
| Costumes | Carmen Perez Mateos |
| Light | Karl Egli |
| Audio | Amadis Brugnoni, audiopool |
| Producer | Pitt Hartmeier |
| Dramaturgy | Christoph A. Schenker |
| Technique | Michal Haditsch Nörbs Locher Esther Rast Willy Rogger Daniel Schafer Roman Sonderegger Nik Tobler Hansueli Trüb |
| Production assistant | Daria Reimann |
| Photos | Alex Spichale |
| Diagram | Urs Wiezel |
| Managing director, head of Communications | Judith Vögele |
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Press
Brugger Neujahrsblätter 2018
A Worthy Counterpart
I have great admiration for Brigitta Luisa Merki as an artist. Her work, her accomplishments - both artistic and organizational - her knowledge, her passion, her „readiness to fight," and her radicalness cannot be appreciated enough. With accomplishments going far beyond the flamenco, Merki has always been and still is a worthy counterpart to me, the Ballet Director and Choreographer. Thank you.
Martin Schläpfer, Chief Choreographer and Artistic Director, Ballett am Rhein (Ballet on the Rhine) Düsseldorf Duisburg.
In 2015, the renowned, award-winning Swiss Choreographer Martin Schläpfer invited Brigitta Luisa Merki and Flamencos en route to the Ballett am Rhein. In a production titled «Adónde vas, Siguiryia?» Flamencos en route and the Ballet am Rhein showed a rapprochement of their opposing dance styles.
Elisabeth Feller, Ernst Rothenbach, Martin Schläpfer, Angela Reinhardt, Ursula Pellaton
Brugger Neujahrsblätter 2018, 03.12.2017
Regional Brugg
Ernst Rothenbach, Regional Brugg, 25.05.2017
Horizonte Aargau
Prioress Irene Gassmann, Fahr Monastery
Interviewed by Andreas C. Müller, Horizonte Aargau, May 22, 2017
Merki succeeded in creating a complete work of art, enormous and coherent, which represents Silja Walter's poetry very accurately. This is particularly true for its fervent, energetic aspects. On second thought: Everything in this production can be connected with the poet, from the choreography to the colors to the rhythmic elements.
Andreas C. Müller, Horizonte Aargau, 22.05.2017
Aargauer Zeitung, Kultur
Man Blossoms Through Dance
(...) Maja Hürst's "Mural" is as much part of a performance that shows Brigitta Luisa Merki at the pinnacle of her art as the dance company Flamencos en route itself or the Chaarts Music Ensemble (...)
(...) The choreographer conceived every gesture and every step as a sign of respect for the performer's counterpart (...)
Elisabeth Feller, Aargauer Zeitung, Kultur, 22.05.2017
Tages-Anzeiger, Kultur & Gesellschaft
original in German
(...) The musicians, who repeatedly assume roles on stage, together with the dancers, add breathtaking moments to the performance (...)
(...) Brigitta Luisa Merki transformed the atmosphere in Walter's poems into vivid images of closeness and estrangement, affection and loneliness (...)
(...) The influence of contemporary dance - contributed by three of the ten dancers - is evident in all the flamenco parts (...)
(...) The dancers readily open themselves up to the moods inspired by the lyrics and, by doing so, put the audience under their spell (...)
Nina Scheu, Tages-Anzeiger, Kultur & Gesellschaft, 22.05.2017
art-tv
Lea Fröhlicher, art-tv, 20.05.2017
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