Guest performance

1st Days of Dance at the Teatr Wielki

As part of the 8th body/mind International Contemporary Dance Festival

Many leading ballet companies have performed at the Teatr Wielki in the past. They include the New York City Ballet, Royal Ballet, Rambert Ballet, Ballet of the Twentieth Century, Bolshoi Ballet, Mariinsky Theatre Ballet, Het Nationale Ballet, Nederlands Dans Theater, Hamburg Ballet, Stuttgart Ballet, Bavarian Ballet, Australian Ballet, Teatro alla Scala Ballet, right up to small contemporary dance groups and dance theatres. We have decided to make these visits a cyclic event by organizing annual Days of Dance at the Teatr Wielki. These will always be held before the official opening of the season at the Polish National Opera, and will be hosted by the Polish National Ballet under Krzysztof Pastor's management.

Idea and choreography: Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo
Music: Philip Jeck, Richie Hawtin, Goem, Plastikman, Svarte Greiner, Thomas Brinkmann, Johann Johannsson
Lights: Bert De Raeymaecker

A production: compagnie linga 
Première: Lausanne International Dance Festival – 2007 

Dancers:
Anna Basti, Elodie Boulet, Johana Cessiecq, Gérald Durand, Ai Koyama, Giacomo Milli,
Martin Roehrich, Saein Shim

In 59 minutes, Linga investigates the guiding principles imposed on us by society: high speed and high performance. Social standards evaluate the way we walk, correct the trajectories of our movements, determine and set more and more productive targets, exploit space, reduce the margin of error and laziness, implying that movement is just a succession of measures and calculations. Speeed does not take sides for slowness against speed. No binary decisions, no final resolutions but just a questioning.
The Swiss company co-founded by Katarzyna Gdaniec, a Polish choreographer and former dancer of Maurice Béjart's company, will perform in Warsaw for the first time. 

Compagnie linga is the associate artist of the Théâtre de l’Octogone Pully/Lausanne and receives the support of Pro Helvetia- Swiss foundation for culture, Canton of Vaud, the City of Pully.
With the support of Loterie Romande, the City of Lausanne, Famille Sandoz Fondation, Casino Barrière Montreux Fondation.

Duration: 59 minutes 

Photo: Gert Weigelt 

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