Bacchantes – Prélude pour une purge
MARLENE MONTEIRO FREITAS
The enfant terrible of choreography, Marlene Monteiro Freitas holds international appeal thanks to her language of overflowing vitality, her taste for excess and the wealth of her references. Her latest piece is a personal reading of Euripides’ Bacchantes and sees eight performers and five trumpeters tackling the Greek tragedy. In this physical and animalistic performance, social statuses are put to the test, bodies are dismembered and faith and belief are tested to their limits. The dancers’ frenetic movements push the exuberance of their bodies to the extreme, to bizarreness, total strangeness and final punishment. Immoderation meets orgy.
DANCE
From 15 years old
AVEC Andreas Merk, Betty Tchomanga, Cookie Cláudio Silva, Flora Détraz, Gonçalo Marques, Guillaume Gardey de Soos, Johannes Krieger, Lander Patrick, Marlene Monteiro Freitas, Miguel Filipe, Tomás Moital, Yaw Tembe
CHORÉGRAPHIE Marlene Monteiro Freitas
LUMIÈRE ET ESPACE Yannick Fouassier
SON Tiago Cerqueira
TABOURETS João Francisco Figueira, Miguel Figueira
ASSISTANTE COSTUMES Cristina Neves
PRODUCTION P.OR.K – Lisbonne
COPRODUCTION TNDMII – Lisbonne, Kunstenfestivaldesarts – Bruxelles, steirischer herbst festival – Graz, Alkantara – Lisbonne
AVEC LE SOUTIEN DE NXTSTP – Programme Culture de l’Union européenne, NorrlandsOperan-Umeå, Festival Montpellier Danse 2017, Bonlieu scène nationale Annecy, La Bâtie – Festival de Genève dans le cadre du soutien FEDER du programme Interreg France-Suisse 2014-2020, Teatro Municipal do Porto, La Manufacture – Centre de Développement Chorégraphique National, HAU Hebbel am Ufer – Berlin, International Summer Festival Kampnagel – Hambourg, Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Mu!nchner Kammerspiele – Munich, Kurtheater Baden, SPRING Performing Arts Festival – Utrecht, Zu!rcher Theater Spektakel – Zurich, Nouveau Théâtre de Montreuil centre dramatique national, Les Spectacles Vivants / Centre Pompidou – Paris
DISTRIBUTION Key Performance – Stockholm
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