The National Dance Company will be visiting the Teatro de la Zarzuela from 11 to 21 December to perform a show that brings together the work of the choreographers, George Balanchine, William Forsythe and Jacopo Godani. The programme includes Serenade, Echoes from a Restless Soul and Playlist (Track 1, 2).
The title of this programme, NumEros is a portmanteau, the combination of two terms, numen and eros, which in essence are opposites, but they make up two central elements in dance creation. Eros as an embodied vital impulse, a creative impulse, a desiring force that reveals itself in and through the body, and Numen as an intangible presence, a poetic inspiration or an inherent spirituality that transcends the wishes of the artist. When they come together, NumEros emerges, evoking Number as a principle of order, an underlying pattern, a logic that shapes movement.
Under this concept, this program brings together the work of Georges Balanchine, William Forsythe, and Jacopo Godani, who have created a formal and numerical choreographic thought, in which choreography is constructed as a field of tensions between the rational and the corporeal and between the measurable and the ineffable.
In these pieces, the performers use numerical systems—proportions, repetitions, permutations, sequences—not only as mere compositional schemes, but as territories experienced through the body. In this context, the body is not limited to executing shapes: it embodies them, disturbs them and transforms them. Therefore, dance becomes a process in which numerical precision meets the excess of desire, and formal abstraction meets the affective power of gesture.
Artistic File:
- National Dance Company (CND)
- Artistic Director - Muriel Romero
Programme:
SERENADE
- Orchestra Conductor - Manuel Coves
- Choreography - George Balanchine
- Music - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893). Serenade in C Major for a string orchestra, Op. 48
- Staging - Colleen Thordal-Christensen
- Costume Design - Karinska
- Community of Madrid Orchestra ORCAM
- Teatro de la Zarzuela Resident Orchestra
ECHOES FROM A RESTLESS SOUL
- Choreographer - Jacopo Godani
- Music - Maurice Ravel. Gaspard de la Nuit
- Solo Pianist - Gustavo Díaz Jerez
- Lighting and Costume Design - Jacopo Godani
- Choreography Assistants - Vincenzo De Rosa and Zoe Lenzi
PLAYLIST (TRACK 1,2)
- Choreographer - William Forsythe
- Music - Peven Everett: Surely Shorty / Lion Babe: Impossible (Jax Jones Remix)
- Staging - José Carlos Blanco Martínez
- Costume Design - Dorothee Merg and William Forsythe
- Lighting Design - Tanja Rühl
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