Gisèle Vienne: a ‘rave’ in gradual movement that neither vibrates nor switch | Culture | EUROtoday

The thought of ​​bringing a Rave to a promise stage. As in addition they promise the primary 20 minutes of Crowd, de la Coreógrafa Francoaustraca Gisèle Vienne. One by one, the 15 dancers who star within the work seem in a gradual movement in a scene coated with dust, with stays of empty cans and plastic bottles. The music sounds, portentous and nostalgic, of these nineties of the final century when the primary raves appeared and lived. An incipient techno soundtrack that makes you need to enclose in a playlist To all the time have at hand.

Tap gradual movementbackbone of the present, introduced this Sunday on the theaters of the Madrid Canal, will be essentially the most sophisticated in order that naturalness just isn’t misplaced. The interpreters are excellent at that starting through which they enter the scene and relate to one another. The gradual chamber our bodies work together with digital music at “normal” rhythm and the distinction works. The work of Bill Viola, a grasp of the audiovisual in granting new meanings by way of the gradual movement. There are those that greet themselves and rejoice in seeing, those that go alone, the one who smokes, the one who drinks. Bomber jackets and huge and colourful tracksuits abound with the road on the aspect. And some issues start to occur in a few plans. While the bulk group within the middle of the stage is to theirs, to bounce, in some nook the violence seems. Contained celebration and violence are, actually, the states which might be repeated on this rave That stays, due to this fact, extraordinarily diminished.

And there comes a time, too quickly, through which the proposal doesn’t give extra of itself. Then every part is repetition, kind of camouflaged. That is, with out an obvious intention of being repetitive. The reiteration of the small gesture, of the home, can work (and works) choreographically in a conclusive method. There is sort of any Pina Bausch present to corroborate it; or the dancers of Tragedyby Olivier Dubois, strolling for half an hour with out altering, taking us to a trance like few; Also, more moderen, the speech of the Greek choreographer christos papadopoulos, instructor of the minimal and his insistence to the obsessive, in items similar to items Larsen c (2021) and the fabulous Mellowing (2023). But in Crowd There is nothing like that. In this work the repetition of concepts, states and even physique vocabulary appears like a scarcity of being pushed by a transparent goal.

Crowd It is a lovely concept that finally ends up being solely anecdote after an hour and a half of present (which takes place as in the event that they had been three). It deflates quickly, doesn’t switch, doesn’t infect. Not even on the time when water and plastic bottles fly, the results of a frenzy that lasts little. Like these pictures that work within the principle and fail when they’re put into observe, if it doesn’t scratch with depth.

This is the second time that Vienne’s work visits Madrid. The first was in 2018, the yr of its premiere, within the slaughterhouse house, inside the summers of the city. It has additionally been seen on the Central Theater in Seville and in 2023 on the Mercat de Les Flors. And it’s not growing old effectively. With it, the fortieth version of the Madrid International Festival in Danza has been closed, which has been fairly lazy within the programmed international proposals and another factor. For instance, on the times assigned to some reveals like this Crowdthat has solely scheduled someday. Or within the absence of areas for dance past the mere exhibition. It is obscure at the moment an excellent pageant of those traits, which additionally meets 4 many years, with out boards for reflection and dialogue round dance, with out locations with which to overcome new audiences (past postfunction conferences) and even with out nice worldwide co -productions. Dance must exist past the stage and Madrid in dance must strengthen its voice, place and canopy it.