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MOSAICO
Cannstatter/Untertürkheimer Zeitung
(...) The recurring movements; the elegant, crystal-clear poses; the protruding arms so untypical in flamenco; the provocative steps forward; and - above all - Brigitta Luisa Merki's superior dynamic attest to the choreographic handwriting of a master, visible also in Eloy Aguilar's fantastic solo, during which he does not succumb to the rhythm but conjures it up himself instead. Merki's style evokes Mondrian's art or - to cite an example from the world of dance - Hans van Manen: clear, strong lines, distilled by a steady and virtuosic hand and freed from any superfluous elements. (...)
Angela Reinhardt, Cannstatter/Untertürkheimer Zeitung, 12.01.2019
Stuttgarter Zeitung
A feast at the Theaterhaus! Brigitta Luisa Merki and her dance company Flamencos en route have combined the talents of 13 highly-gifted individuals and created a fascinating dance mosaic.
Andrea Kachelriess, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 10.01.2019
Stuttgarter Zeitung
(...) In her new production - a German premiere shown on several evenings in January at the Stuttgarter Theaterhaus - Merki lends Maurice Ravel's world-famous music new coherence while using a variety of movement styles. At a performance on the stage of the Alte Reithalle in Aarau, Switzerland, the audience watches the intoxicating waves in three-four time with bated breath. And just a few sequences later in the performance, the dance company surprises again with its ability to not only interpret Merki's artistic language, heavily based on the movements of the flamenco, but also to follow the more modern lead of David Coria, a young and "wild" Spanish artist, effortlessly. Not surprisingly, the performance of "Mosaico" ends with lots of applause from the audience. (...)
(...) Guided by the pulse of the music and their individual characteristics, the flamenco dancers move in precise and hardly imperious fashion while the contemporary dancers move more impulsively. Such artistic frontier-crossing is typical for Flamencos en route's creative adventurousness cultivated and developed over several decades. As a result, audiences are rewarded with a complex, atmospherically intense work of art, which easily incorporates David Coria's expressive choreographies. The fact that Coria's modern dance tableaux are inspired by traditional flamenco motives - for example by the "Soleá's" esthetics of pain - facilitates their integration into Merki's work.
Brigitte Jähnigen, Stuttgarter Zeitung, 02.01.2019
tanz - Zeitschrift für Ballett, Tanz und Performance
(...) Every one of Brigitta Luisa Merki's choreographies is as colorful as an Anatolian Kilim rug and as delicate and precisely-crafted as a silk rug. (...)
(...) And what a celebration it is! This mosaic created of various styles of flamenco, dance, and music represents the essence of more than 30 years of successful creative activity. It includes the music of the former musical director of the company, Antonio Robledo, whose piece "canto amor" Merki included in the first part of the performance and to which the dancers dance, together with Ravel's "Boléro". The mosaic also includes the sonorous voice of Karima Nayt, who has been singing with Flamencos en route for many years and who contrasts the flamenco with Maghrebian sounds. And last but not least, the promotion of young artists, such as David Coria, forms part of the mosaic. (...)
Lilo Weber, tanz - Zeitschrift für Ballett, Tanz und Performance, 01.01.2019
Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Petra Mostbacher-Dix, Stuttgarter Nachrichten, 02.12.2018
az, Aargauer Zeitung
The choreography of "Mosaico" reveres a young, vital flamenco generation at Alte Reithalle (a performance venue in Aargau, Switzerland).
(...) The amalgamation of creativity and technical perfection is stunning. (...)
az, September 25, 2018, Elisabeth Feller
Elisabeth Feller, az, Aargauer Zeitung, 25.09.2018
SRF 1, Tagesschau
Natascha Schwyn, SRF 1, Tagesschau, 22.09.2018
SRF 1, Regional Journal Aargau Solothurn
Alice Sager, SRF 1, Regional Journal Aargau Solothurn, 20.09.2018
Kanal K, K Punkt Kultur
Kanal K, K Punkt Kultur, 20.09.2018
CLICK Kulturmagazin
CLICK Kulturmagazin, 03.09.2018
AAKU
AAKU, 01.09.2018
Moving emotions
Moving emotions, 01.09.2018
arttv.ch
arttv.ch, 31.08.2018
AZ, Aarau
AZ, Aarau, 28.04.2018
Der Bund
The surprise is perfect. After all, who would have expected a performance at the Dampfzentrale to open with Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" - much less arranged as a delicate chamber music piece.
... There is a reason why the evening is entitled "Mosaico". The audience gets to witness a spectacular artistic journey by Flamencos en route - a journey during which the breaks provide the most breathtaking, suspense-filled moments ...
... Individual images appear all by themselves and assemble into an atmospheric entity that results in a sum that is greater than its parts ...
... Calling Brigitta Luisa Merki's art flamenco does not do it justice. The Artistic Director of Flamencos en route has decades of artistic experience and knows exactly how to get her top-class dancers to use flamenco technique to create new, contemporary forms of expression. "Mosaico" is a perfect example for how easily the Flamencos en route dancers move between styles ...
... Thanks to the continuous work of her free-lance ensemble, Merki now has a platform for mentoring young choreographers at her disposal. This is an added benefit not to be under-estimated at a time when financial support for the arts has decreased to a minimum ...
... The encounter with the young Spanish guest choreographer, David Coria, in the second part of "Mosaico" is a revelation. Using large movable building blocks as well as simple, highly effective props such as a water basin, in which the dancers gather as if it were a water fountain, drink water and cool themselves down, Coria creates body architecture and original moving pictures full of vitality and poetry ...
Marianne Mühlemann, Der Bund, 22.12.2017
Tages Anzeiger
Marianne Mühlemann, Tages Anzeiger, 22.12.2017
Aargauer Zeitung
Helen Lagger, Aargauer Zeitung, 20.12.2017
Berner Zeitung
Helen Lagger, Berner Zeitung, 19.12.2017