A dance piece set to the most famous piano solo of all time - Keith Jarrett's Köln Concert. The dance company recently founded by Trajal Harrell at the Schauspielhaus Zürich takes to the stage to the rhythm of this music. But before the Köln Concert sounds, you'll first hear four songs by another artist: Canadian musician Joni Mitchell. She opens the show, setting the scene for Keith Jarrett's music and the dance company. The piece seeks a language that allows closeness despite times of social distancing and estrangement. The shared experience of tender people, of performers showing their vulnerability on stage, evokes the need to remain close to each other despite everything, to have respect for ourselves but also for others, to remember that there are many stories of people rarely seen or heard. People who have been pushed into the shadows, the lonely, the addicted, the abandoned, the homeless, the sad, who proudly defy their abandonment. During The Köln Concert, the stage belongs to them.

New-York based choreographer Trajal Harrell often works overseas. He is famous for his series of pieces called Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church where post-modern dance meets Voguing. His series Antigone Sr., with its various sizes, won the 2012 Bessie Award for best production. During the fall of the same year he presented the last part of the series Judson Church is Ringing in Harlem (Made-to-Measure)/Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church. Trajal Harrell is currently preparing a shorter piece for Cullberg Ballet and a new project for 8 performers – The Ghost of Montpellier Meets Samurai, which premiered during Montpellier Dance Festival 2015. He also created the first piece of a new series on Butoh based on Voguing. This creation called Used, Abused and Hung Out to Dry was shown in February 2013 in the MOMA.

Born in 1977, Fabien Plasson is a video director specialized in the field of performing arts (dance , music, etc).

During his studies at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (joined in 1995) Fabien discovered video art. He was trained by various video artists (Joel Bartoloméo Pascal Nottoli , Eric Duyckaerts , etc).
He first experimented with the creation of installations and cinematic objects.

From 2001 to 2011, he was in charge of Ginger & Fred video Bar’s programming at La Maison de la Danse in Lyon. He discovered the choreographic field and the importance of this medium in the dissemination, mediation and pedagogical approach to dance alongside Charles Picq, who was a brilliant video director and the director of the video department at that time.

Today, Fabien Plasson is the video director at La Maison de la Danse and in charge of the video section of Numeridanse.tv, an online international  video library, and continues his creative activities, making videos of concerts, performances and also creating video sets for live performances.

Sources: Maison de la Danse ; Fabien Plasson website

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