`VOICES´ is a full evening of choreography
containing two contrasting pieces for six dancers.
One is Set Boundaries
a
collaboration with celebrated electronic composer,
Matthew Herbert, visual artist Lenka Clayton and
theatre designer Alan Macdonald. It explores
the definition of borders between peoples and
people and how the voice can be the difference
between power and impotence. The other piece
/aót∫ak/
is inspired by Luciano Berio´s
`Naturale´ a haunting vocal composition
for viola, tam-tam and taped voice.
"I
chose the title `Voices´ because Matthew
Herbert wanted to use voice as part of his music
composition in a very ancient way and Berio´s
`Naturale´, which I had already chosen,
uses the voice in a completely different way.
Although the two pieces will have very different
identities and will be in total contrast to each
other, the link will be the voice - its use, meaning
and power."
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"A
visually compelling and colourful evening of work".
The Stage
"The
tiniest movements speak volumes in Rafael Bonachela’s
enigmatic double bill". Sunday Times
"Cool and gutsy .... With good dancers and
polished staging". Evening Standard
"Pacing is one of Bonachela’s strengths...
a sure sense of when to still the raging storm,
and turndown the dynamic to a shiver". Independent
on Sunday
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Running
time approximately : 30 min.
/aót∫ak/ is a journey through Luciano
Berio’s haunting composition for viola,
tam-tam and voice.Bonachela’s six extraordinary
dancers explore the walls that surround us –
both real and imagined. The result is sometimes
violent, sometimes tender, but always innovative.
"An
underlying sexuality that gives handsome physical
presence to the jagged emotional intelligence".The
Times
Performed by 6 dancers
Designer:
Alan Macdonald
Lighting Designer: Lee Curran
Music:
Luciano Berio
Costumes: Theo Clinkard
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Running
time approximately : 20 min
Set Boundaries is an urgent and stylish work highlighting
how the voice can be used as a weaponof power.
The dramatic new score by Matthew Herbert uses
Alan Seeger’s poem “Rendezvous with
Death” and the real words of a Kurdish asylum
seeker while visual artist Lenka Clayton and designer
Alan Macdonald confine the dancers in a tense
world where they play out nightmares of powerlessness
and dreams of escape.
"The dancers, trapped within invisible barriers,
alternate between hard angled defiance and ahaunted,
liquid fear". The Guardian
Performed by 6 dancers
Designer: Alan Macdonald
Lighting Designer: Lee Curran
Music: Matthew Herbert
Visual Artist: Lenka Clayton |
