« Helikopter » and « Licht » by Angelin Preljocaj: wave mechanics – Liberation

With Licht, For Lumière, Angelin Preljocaj signs his new creation, choreography for twelve dancers who win their paradise, where everything would only be order and voluptuousness. But the trip is long and begins with the recovery in the first part ofHelikopter (2001). On the powerful partition of Karlheinz Stockhausen, which in 1995 embarked the Arditti quartet to record their strings in helicopters, the performers enter a rectangle of projections on the ground. First straight lines, then circles which form in contact with the footsteps of the dancers, until creating a wave liquid space, which is gradually being in a cloudy drawing. Helikopter Movers this rise from earth to heaven in a teeled arm choreography, legs in arabesque with maximum amplitude. The bodies take the measurement of space, and when they go to the ground, there is no collapse or loss of energy. The choreographic sentences continue a perpetual movement like these lists of figures broadcast on the set for a masterful dance with mathematical vertigo.

Licht This is another story, still linked to Stockhausen, in direct reference to its seven operas cycle. It begins with a black melted and the deployment of a small crowd first against the light; The play will be the story of their dazzling through the score signed this time Laurent Garnier, on the air of Run