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Premiere show on the 10th of September 2014 at the Opéra de Lyon as part of Biennale de la danse de Lyon
How Slow the Wind by the Japanese composer Toru Takemitsu is inspired by a poem by Emily Dickinson, which evokes the calm before or after a catastrophe – a calm that is peaceful yet threatening. This piece stands entirely apart from the dialectical principles of Western orchestral composition and is a far cry from the formalist radicalism of his contemporaries, which affords the dance great freedom, particularly in terms of rhythm. In the performance, the dancers are on pointe shoes, and the musical score tests their endurance; they achieve a form of wavering stillness, at peace yet under threat, far more intense than without pointe shoes.
©Ballet de l'Opéra de Lyon / Biennale de Lyon 2014
l’équipe
co-production
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production
Ballet de l’Opéra de Lyon, France — Biennale de la danse de Lyon, France
special thanks to
Maison de la Culture d’Amiens, France — Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers, France — Centre national de la Danse, France