Choreography/Dance: Yvonne Pouget
Dance: Yvonne Pouget
Tenor voice in the video: Pino De Vittorio
Stage direction: Martina Veh
Counter Tenor/Dance: Christopher Robson
Musical Director/Chembalo/Organ: Christoph Hammer
Vioala da Gamba/Lirone: Irene Klein
Theorbe: Axel Wolf
Duration: 80 minutes (no interval)
The cultivation of Body, Spirit and Soul is highlighted in „Corporalità via the fascinating combination of baroque music with the expressive possibilities of Butoh. Butoh Dance, which came to Europe from Japan after the Second World War, is developed from traditional Japanese dance combined with modern elements. Central to Butoh Dance is the element of the Body combined with the personal Life-experience of the dancer. Butoh has its roots in the Noh and Kabuki theatre traditions, as does much of the German Expressionist dance movement today. In Butoh dance, beside the typically salient white painted body of the dancer, the strongest contrasts are characteristic in the movement: fast-slow, soft-hard, or wild-tender.
The early Baroque musical world of Monteverdis impressive and emotionally deeply expressive monologue Lasciate mi morire (better known as the Lamento dArianna) from his lost opera ARIANNA of 1608 forms the musical basis or pivot of the production.
The Desire for Life (Lebenslust) and the Joy of Existence (carpe diem) are inseparably connected with the skills of the other side and the cult of the transitory (memento mori). Joy and beauty do not have existence. In the Baroque, death is pervasive and always overshadowing the existing Weltlust with its finiteness. Thus is mortality and earthliness in the project of greater interest - here celebrated in the dance.
A room/space is created in which logical understanding is unnecessary, where the sound the gesture and the performance become a room/space into which the public come and feels these things. (Yvonne Pouget)
The dance is an intimate inter-psychological process with the audience, equally volatile and transient.
Tanztheater ties itself to the concepts of Leonardo da Vinci, who orientated himself in his lifetime around seven principles:
Corporalità, the cultivation of body, spirit and soul;
Curiosità, the restless curiosity and striving for knowledge;
Dimonstrazione, to make an examination of knowledge and the willingness to err;
Sensazione, the sharpening of all the five senses;
Sfumato, the capacity for paradox and uncertainty in life. Generally humans endeavor to find equilibrium through holistic thought (Arte/Sziencia), and solidarity with the whole is carried through systematic thought (Connessione).
Yvonne Pouget (Choreography/Butoh Dance/Idea) has ranked for 15 years among the established artists of the German Choreography and Dance scene. She received her Butoh dance training with Ko Murobushi and Carlotta Ikeda. Her prolific dance productions have been successful at home and abroad. Artists like the director Johannes Brunner, the baroque specialist Christoph Hammer, and the Countertenor and Bayerische Kammersänger Christopher Robson have enthusiastically collaborated with her. Pougets theatre productions are financially supported since 2000 by the Culture Ministry of the City of Munich. Yvonne Pouget transforms beyond Butoh Dance as an extremely versatile solo dancer/entertainer and Star of the Varietékunst. She has enormous stage presence and Prägnanz. She dances with Snakes, plays with Fire and kidnaps her public, taking them into the intoxicating world of Sensuality. She realizes theatre dreams in which logical understanding is unnecessary, touching the audience with each sound and gesture of performance.
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I absolutely love this! Both the dance and the singing! What a great combination! I wish there was a DVD of this!
DenSimcott 11 months ago