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Premiere show on September 10th 2017 at Saint-Gervais Le Théâtre as part of La Bâtie-Festival in Genève
Romances Inciertos, un autre Orlando is both a musical concert and a vocal performance, in three acts, like the echo of an opera ballet. We see appear one after another: La Doncella Guerrera, who takes us, in a medieval setting, on the trail of a young girl who has gone to war disguised as a man; Garcia Lorca’s San Miguel, the voluptuous archangel, object of devotion, as ornate as he is full of pain, carried during ritualized processions of the Semana Santa; and the Tarara, an Andalusian gypsy who, after a disappointing love affair, wavers between mysticism and seduction, hiding a secret androgyny.
The recording is available at Alborada Éditions HERE.
©Nina Laisné
“Romances inciertos is an estuary, a delta.”
Romances inciertos is an estuary, a delta. A zone which is hard to locate on the map, at the confluence between Spanish music of oral and “erudite” traditions that inspires dances, poems and mini-epics whose heroines play roles that are not their own. The stories of these characters, caught in a perpetual movement of metamorphosis, ambiguity, insistent imposture and burning indecision, are reflected in the very destiny of the melodies attributed to them. Romances Inciertos stages these two trajectories: the rebirth of the characters who have no choice but to transform reality to suit their desires – and the infinite mutation of musical motifs through the centuries. The uncertain identity of these figures is mirrored by the musical fusion. Most of these melodies appeared during the 16th and 17th centuries in Spain. Since then they have been ceaselessly interpreted, modified, transformed. Each culture as well as each period re-appropriated these poems, constantly bringing the adventures of their heroines into the present.
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This is how these melodies, which come from the art of romance, from Sephardic songs or the jota, were introduced into Baroque music, Andalusian flamenco or even the transvestite cabarets of the Movida. The four soloists retrace these paths, borrowing from melodies originally written for other instrumentaria, boldly reconciling timbres reputed to be incompatible: the bandoneon fancies itself a harpsichord, the viola da gamba drones dolorous zambras, the percussion invites itself into sacred music and Baroque reminiscences of Sevillana marches emerge in the hollow of the theorbo.
It is therefore an adulterated, iridescent delta, on which the unexpected silhouette of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando appears to scintillate. But this particular Orlando is no longer a young lord of the royal court of England, who lives for four centuries and regularly falls into a deep sleep. He devotes his entire life to the writing of one and only one poem that reflects the colors of the periods he lives through and echoes the infinite mutations in art and society. As in the novel, we are in the presence of a character prone to eclipsing, who suddenly disappears only to reappear again in the guise of a woman, elsewhere in space and time.
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co-production
& production
co-productions
Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy and La Bâtie – Festival de Genève with the support of FEDER programme INTERREG France-Switzerland 2014-2020, Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, Paris, deSingel — Anvers, Maison de la musique de Nanterre, Arsenal / Cité musicale-Metz.
mandorle productions
Mandorle productions is subsidized by the Ministère de la Culture (DRAC Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes) and the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
François Chaignaud is an associate artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse as well as the Maison de la danse and the Biennale de la danse de Lyon.
Nina Laisné is an associate artist at Les 2 Scènes, Scène nationale de Besançon.
supports
This project received the support of the region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Spedidam, PACT Zollverein Essen, TANDEM Scène nationale, Anguiano city council – La Rioja, Pépinières Européennes pour Jeunes Artistes and the Huesca city council (residency Park in Progress 12), and was invited in residency in Teatros del canal in Madrid, Centre national de la danse, la Ménagerie de verre in Paris (Studiolab) and El Garaje in Cadíz.
special thanks
Jonathan and Cristopher Jiménez Cabeza, Rodrigo Cuevas, Xosé Antón Ambás, Ramses Ilesies Fernandéz, Gemma López Hernáez, Diego “Gorilla”, Eva Hernández Blanco, Miguel Ángel Marín, Olalla Alemán, Célia Houdart and the whole team of Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy.