Les somnambules
CHOREOGRAPHY/DANCE: BÉATRICE JACCARD, PETER SCHELLING, MASSIMO BERTINELLI MUSIC/COMPOSITION: ERNST THOMA, MASSIMO BERTINELLI COSTUMES: CLARISSA HERBST LIGHT DESIGN: FRANCOIS GENDRE MASK: SYLVIA TOMMASI COPRODUCTION: ROTE FABRIK ZUERICH, HALLE 2C FRIBOURG
Premiere 1994 ROTE FABRIK ZUERICH
Les Somnambules is inspired by silent movies. Acting without being there, a deeply human trait. To go through moments of your life without really being aware, moments of absence. Daydreaming away your working hours, lying awake with the angels at night.
Press excerpts
"...A tissue of night fantasies, imaginary apparitions of the mind to which the three fabulous dancers give an intriguing shape..."
Nordseezeitung, Bremerhaven
"...'Les Somnambules' is about harmony and aggression, about being alone and about to getherness. Its highly sophisticated dance technique serves as the basis fot really liberated dancing. This is made quite obvious by one of the few lifts the programm contains: the unreal lightness of dance..."
Neue Zeit, Gra
"...An abundance of fantastic scenes where wit and horror follow each other closely and where language becomes powerless; if you haven't seen it, you have missed something..."
Badische Zeitung, Freiburg
"...The dancing of Jaccard/Schelling/Bertinelli is tender and rough, cautious and untroubled, comical and philosophical. Their dance piece stays with you and fuels your imaginations for a long time..."
Shena, St Petersburg
"...The compagnie drift 's dance is as simple and as complicated as the human emotions. Their dance travels with a significant movement language and clear theatrical images through the night of our uncertain world at the end of the millenium. At the same time this dance is a metaphor of human existence..."
Oltre Frontiera, Chiasso
"...Real masters of the worlds in between... stories of dreams and nightmares, gracefull yet sharp. Enthusiastic applause."
Sükurier Ravensburg