Rosenzeit - A solo for Ornella Balestra
www.lucaschulte.com
Last performance was on February 16, 2012 in Turin / Italy, at Lavanderia a Vapore, www.ballettoteatroditorino.it
Concept/Direction: Luca Giacomo Schulte, Dance: Ornella Balestra,
Production: Luca Giacomo Schulte; Coproduction: Centre Choréographique National de Franche-Comté à Belfort dans le cadre d'acceuil studio, Theater im Pumpenhaus Münster, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf, with support of Landeshauptstadt Düsseldorf.
Premiere: 14. 5. 2009 Festival tanz nrw 09, tanzhaus nrw Düsseldorf.
Duration: 60 min., filmed by Sandeep Mehta.
A chamber piece with songs and poetry from throughout centuries, tell of love, hope, solitude, death and the joy of life, illustrating the timelessness of emotions. Ornella Balestra, former soloist at Maurice Béjart's Ballet du Vingtième Siècle and since 2003 performing with the Raimund Hoghe Company, interprets these songs, appearing almost to sing them with her body. Through the intimacy of these stories, the spectator is linked with European cultural history as Rosenzeit charts a path between highs and lows of emotion, through a vocabulary of classical dance, avant-garde and visual arts.
Biographies
Luca Giacomo Schulte completed a degree in fine arts at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf/Münster (Germany). His work was presented in several exhibitions in Germany, Portugal, Norway and Sweden. Since 1992 he is artistic collaborator of the internationally renowned choreographer and dancer, Raimund Hoghe. With Rosenzeit, the Düsseldorf based artist is presenting his first feature-length work for theatre. As a choreographer, his particular interest is in the equal connection of dance and visual arts. His new production „Joseph" is a piece with the Germany based African-American dancer Joseph P. Cooksey. Premiere: April 26, 2011, Festival Queer Zagreb. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sFKzOYGWo8
Ornella Balestra studied classical dance at the Royal Ballet School in London and La Scala Opera House in Milan. She performed as soloist in Maurice Béjart's Ballet du Vingtìème Siècle and studied at his Mudra School in Brussels. Returning to Italy, she continued to work with Italian choreographers, performing in major theatres and festivals across the country. Her international career gained new momentum when she began collaborating with Raimund Hoghe. She is a leading dancer in his pieces "Tanzgeschichten" (German Producers Award 2003), "Swan Lake, 4 Acts" (2005), "Boléro Variations"(2007) and "Si je meurs laissez le balcon ouvert" (2010). The pieces are performed worldwide.
The song Rosenzeit here used for the trailer is amongst others in the piece wich are sung in german, french, italian, and estonian.
It is composed by Johannes Brahms (Agnes, op. 59 no.5); soprano: Elly Ameling, piano: Dalton Baldwin.
Time of roses! How quickly past,
Quickly past have you gone!
Had my sweetheart only remained true,
Then I should fear nothing.
At the harvest, cheerfully,
Cheerfully the reaping women sing.
But ah! my blood is ill, I'm sick at heart,
And want to succeed at nothing more.
I creep so through the meadow valley,
Through the meadow valley, as if lost in a dream,
To the mountain, where a thousand times,
he swore he would be true.
Above on the edge of the hill, turning away,
I weep by the linden tree;
On my hat, the wreath of roses
that he made for me
Blows in the wind.
Eduard Mörike (1804-1875)
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Wonderful. Thanks.
Teonareine 8 months ago
Juz sie Boje.
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