Tempo Vicino
2017
Choreographer(s) : Childs, Lucinda (United States)
Present in collection(s): Ballet national de Marseille , Archives - Chorégraphes invités (1998-2013)
Tempo Vicino
2017
Choreographer(s) : Childs, Lucinda (United States)
Present in collection(s): Ballet national de Marseille , Archives - Chorégraphes invités (1998-2013)
Tempo Vicino
Music: “Son of Chamber Symphony” by John ADAMS
Lighting design: Philippe GROSPERRIN
Costume design: Lucinda CHILDS, Nicole MURRU & Aurélia LYON
Costumes made by: Danièle MEROPE GARDENIER
The first time I worked with John Adams was on Available Light, a commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles which had been redesigned by the architect Frank Gehry. I've gone on to work with him on Chairman Dances for the Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 2000, and more recently on his new opera Dr Atomic.
I gained inspiration for this work by analysing the score of Adams' music in detail. Each phrase of the choreography can be identified by reading the score, and the role of each dancer is determined by the music's structure. It's the precision in the execution of movements that creates the relationship between the dancers and time and space. The choreography is abstract : eight boys and girls are on stage, sometimes in groups, sometimes in couples, and the vivacious relationship between them is down to the music.
The atmosphere at the start of the second movement is somewhat “restrained” and although their movements are coordinated, the dancers evolve in the space without any common ground. Then “suddenly”, without any apparent transition taking place, they seem to embark on a new choreography only to return to the initial codes.
The third and last movement is a new starting point, a new game… and the journey goes on. Lucinda Childs
Tempo Vicino is a very beautiful work in a serene, majestic way, with the dancers appearing and disappearing in line with subtle proportioning, moved by continual motion. Raphaël de Gubernatis, Le Nouvel Observateur
Childs, Lucinda
Lucinda Childs began her career at the Judson Dance Theater in 1963 where she choreographed thirteen works and performed in works of Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Robert Morris. Since forming her dance company in 1973, she has created over fifty works, both solo and ensemble.
In 1976, she collaborated with Robert Wilson and Philip Glass on the opera Einstein on the Beach, as principal performer and choreographer for which she received a Village Voice Obie award. In the subsequent revival in '84 Childs choreographed the two "Field Dances" for the opera. Childs has appeared in a number of Wilson's major productions among them, Marguerite Duras' Maladie de la Mort, Wilson's I Was Sitting on my Patio This Guy Appeared I Thought I Was Hallucinating, Heiner Muller's Quartett, and Wilson and Glass' opera White Raven and Arvo Part’s Adams Lament. and collaborated with Robert Wilson and Mikhail Baryshnikov on Wilson’s new production Letter to a Man which premiered in Spoleto Italy in 2015.
She received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1979 for her collaboration, Dance, with music by Philip Glass, and film décor by Sol LeWitt. In a Washington Post review of Dance, Alan M. Kriegsman wrote, "a few times, at most, in the course of a decade a work of art comes along that makes a genuine breakthrough, defining for us new modes of perception and feeling and clearly belonging as much to the future as to the present. Such a work is Dance".
Since 1981, she has choreographed over thirty works for major ballet companies which include the Paris Opera Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, and Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Company. She has also worked as choreographer and more recently both choreographer and director for sixteen opera productions including Mozart's Zaide for La Monnaie in Brussels, Stravinsky's Le Rossignol et Oedipe, Vivaldi's Farnace, and Handel's Alessandro, voted "Opera of the Year" by Mezzo-TV 2013. In 2014 she directed a new production of John Adams Dr. Atomic for the Opera du Rhin and Jean Baptiste Lully's Atys and Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice for Opera Kiel in Germany.
The Summerscape Festival at Bard College commissioned the revival of Dance in 2009, which continues to tour in the United States and Europe and is currently included in the repertory of the Lyons Opera Ballet. Available Light (1983) with music by John Adams and set by architect, Frank Gehry was revived for the 2015-16 season, and she is recently choreographed Beethoven’s Grande Fugue for the Lyons Opera Ballet, which premieres in November, 2016.
Childs received the Bessie Award for Sustained Achievement in 2001, and was elevated from the rank of Officer to Commander in France's Order of Arts and Letters in 2004, and in 2009 she received the NEA/NEFA American Masterpiece Award. In 2017, she was awarded the Venice Biennale de la Danse Golden Lion Award, and the Samuel H. Scripps/American Dance Festival Lifetime Achievement Award.
Source : Lucinda Childs’ Website
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