Lamento, solo pour Gabriella
2012 - Director : De Mey, Michèle Anne
Choreographer(s) : De Mey, Michèle Anne (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): Numeridanse
Video producer : Charleroi Danses
Lamento, solo pour Gabriella
2012 - Director : De Mey, Michèle Anne
Choreographer(s) : De Mey, Michèle Anne (Belgium)
Present in collection(s): Numeridanse
Video producer : Charleroi Danses
Lamento, solo pour Gabriella
MICHÈLE ANNE DE MEY
2012 / 40'
Lasciatemi morire!
E chi volete voi che mi conforte
In così dura sorte,
In così gran martire?
Lasciatemi morire
All that remains of Monteverdi’s Arianna is its central scene, Lamento. Abandoned by Theseus, Arianne mourns the part of herself that has been torn away for ever. Michèle Anne De Mey has been inspired by this exquisite, ancient and tragic snippet to create a solo that has been tailor-made for Gabriella Iacono, her prima donna. Initially the choreographer confines herself to a strict, choreographed transposition of the text carried by the singing. Then the tableaux link together into a dance that transforms the first throes of a sense of abandonment through a veritable anatomy of dereliction, a kind of universal écorché of the mindset of someone wounded by the loss of a beloved.
De Mey, Michèle Anne
This has been a fantastic year for her. Kiss & Cry, an original stage object summoning up object theatre, music, words and nanochoreographies for four hands and dealing with the memory of feelings of love, has won unanimous international acclaim. People have emerged from the show overwhelmed and talking about their own emotional stories. She and Jaco Van Dormael have created it with a group of artists, making it a very personal experience since feelings of love, this thread running through her work, are in a way sublimated here: the film-maker is none other than her partner. Powerful music, telling of the affair from its fickle beginnings to the final split, is another constant in her work and woven into her choreographic universe: Beethoven’s 3rd Symphony in Sinfonia Eroica, the 7th in Neige and the Lamento d’Arianna in her latest piece, a solo she is creating specially for one of her faithful performers. All in all another declaration of love.
De Mey, Michèle Anne
Astragales
Lamento, solo pour Gabriella
Artistic direction / Conception : Michèle Anne De Mey
Artistic direction assistance / Conception : Grégory Grosjean
Choreography : Michèle Anne De Mey
Interpretation : Gabriella Iacono
Stage direction : Michèle Anne De Mey
Set design : Simon Siegmann
Additionnal music : Lamento di Arianna de Monteverdi - Roberta Invernizzi & Academia Strumentale Italiana, Lasciatemi qui solo de Caccini - Marie Cristina Kiehr, Jean-Marc Aymes & Concerto Soave, Amore mio, non piangere - Choeur "Gruppo Padano di Padena", Gaspare de Lama & Giovanna Marini, Bang Bang - Nancy Sinatra, O surdato nnammurato - Anna Magnani, Cade l'uliva - Choeur "Gruppo Padano di Piadena", Gaspare de Lama & Giovanna Marini, Lasciatemi morire de Monteverdi - The Consort of Musicke & Anthony Rooley, Si Dolce E'I Tormento de Monteverdi - Delitiae Musicae & Marco Longhini, Lamento d'Arianna (vocal), Lasciatemi morire de Monteverdi - Delitiae Musicae, Marco Longhini & Paolo Costa, Le Rappel Des Oiseaux de Rameau - Mordecai Shehori
Lights : Simon Siegmann
Costumes : Costume Zouzou Leyens Couturiers Samuel Dronet, Maylis Duvivier, Nalan Kosar Accessoires Anne Masset
Sound : Boris Cekevda
Other collaborations : Répétitrice Manuela Rastaldi - Technicien lumière Rémy Nelissen - Technicien plateau Clément Bonte - Régisseur de tournée Bruno Olivier - Constructeur plancher François Maréchal
Production / Coproduction of the choreographic work : Charleroi Danses, Centre chorégraphique de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles
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