Conception and dance Dominique Duszynski, Ennio Sammarco
Composer and musician Josselin Varengo

BARROCO: a Portuguese word, used in jewellery to indicate an irregular pearl. It is the root of the word "baroque", the artistic and literary trend of the XVII century, characterized by an aesthetics of exuberance and strangeness in reaction to Lutheran bareness and severity. Barroco originates from the wish of Dominique Duszynski and Ennio Sammarco to share an artistic experience. These two interpreters havee always followed very different artistic routes which nevertheless never ceased crossing each other. Two choreographers who usually pursue their artistic research along different paths.
Together, they chose as their starting point Dave Brubeck's compositions, because of their irregular rhythm, repetitive and obstinate in character, and their sense of swing, of lightness, roundness and blitheness.
Barroco explores the principle of freedom within an extremely structured picture. With the invaluable complicity of Josselin Varengo, a musician active in Lyon and intimate with the projects of the Woos, this musical reference, so familiar, becomes perturbed, diverted. He derives from it new sound perspectives which affect the two dancing bodies. Barroco is a dialogue among three people: each of them stirs, in the two other protagonists, new sound and choreographic responses, and plays with his/her own apparition and disappearance. Barroco, a triangular form which excludes neither oneness nor doubleness, where the affirmation of the self implies the relation with the other, is a strange artistic creation. In it, the elegant nonchalance and the extreme rigour of the gestures harmonize in one breath, exultant and liberating at once, and above all necessary.
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Credits

Conception and dance Dominique Duszynski and Ennio Sammarco
Composer and musician Josselin Varengo
Production Association woo
Thanks to Summer Studio's Brussels et DCJ Werkplaatsen,
Bruxelles ; I.U.F.M., Lyon , Le Croiseur, Lyon ; CND Rhône-Alpes.

Video direction : Charles Picq
Production : Maison de la Danse

Updating : August 2011

After ten years in the company of Pina Bausch, where she danced in shows legendary as "The Rite of Spring", "Kontakthof", "The 7 Deadly Sins", "Viktor", "Arlen" and many others, Dominique Duszynski continues his research work and experimentation in teaching but also in creating choreography for dancers and actors, in symbiosis with directors or alone.Along the way, she was also interpreter for JF Duroure and Pippo Delbono. She attended the film's Lament of the Empress of Pina Bausch and the films of Amos Gitai: Berlin-Jerusalem and Golem. Since 1988, she teaches contemporary dance and elements of Tanztheater across Europe. She teaches at PARTS (Brussels) since the inception of the school in 1995. In 2007, she resumed the path of the trays by creating a solo Fuga In 2008, in collaboration with E. Sammarco and J. Varengo, they create the trio Barroco. In 2009, she choreographed and dance a new solo Luz, created for the 9th Festival Voix de Femmes in Belgium.

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