- Dance
- 12 oct – 14 dec 2018, Main Stage.
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Ensemble
New creation
- Choreography
- Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
- Music
- NN
- Set design
- Hans Op de Beeck
- Lighting design
- David Stokholm
- Göteborgsoperans Danskompani
- GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
- Dancers and musicians from Eastman
Solo Echo
- Choreography, Costume Design
- Crystal Pite
- Music
- Johannes Brahms
- Set design
- Jay Gower Taylor
- Costume design
- Joke Visser
- Lighting design
- Tom Visser
- Göteborgsoperans Danskompani
- GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Tickets SEK 185–330. 9 perfromances. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s work is a co-production with Eastman. This production is included in Premiere and Weekday subscriptions, and can be selected in Your Choice.
Dust to dust
Dance under the skin. A new creation by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Swedish premiere for ’Solo Echo’ by Crystal Pite.
Belgian-Moroccan choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui continues to rack up award after award while dance companies across the world compete to persuade him to create new works for them. This season he creates the third chapter in his collaboration with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani – a journey which began with the ethereal, geometric Noetic (2014), followed by the solid, down-to-earth Icon (2016), which featured 3.5 tonnes of clay on stage.
For this new creation, he and his team will create a work about everything which has no substance: emptiness, memories, longing, love – the soul that we attribute to ourselves and our reality, but is an illusion.
The work is created in partnership with artist Hans Op de Beeck, acclaimed among other things for his beautifully shaped concrete sculptures that inspire the imagination. His set design will both encapsulate, and stand in contrast to intangible weightlessness. Just as for both Noetic and Icon, musicians and singers will perform on stage with the dancers to weave these disparate elements together into a whole which is Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s calling card.
Solo Echo
Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite creates few works for selected companies. In her first encounter with GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, she is allowing our dancers to tackle Solo Echo which she created in 2012 for Nederlands Dans Theater where she is resident choreographer.
Solo Echo is a reaction to two melancholy sonatas for cello and piano by Johannes Brahms, and also drew inspiration from a poem by Mark Strand called Lines for Winter. Solo Echo evokes the melancholic atmosphere of winter. Combined with the powerful images of the body, it conveys a meaningful message about acceptance and loss.
Your Choice.
Create the perfect blend of shows to suit your taste – and your calendar.
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World premiere/ Swedish premiere 12 Oct 2018
9 performances, runs until 14 december.
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