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Sep 09 1987 - 17:00

Teatro dei Licei - Rovereto

Les Traits Tirés

Sidonie Rochon, Les traits tires | ph Paolo Aldi

The overview of French "nouvelle danse" offered this year by the Rovereto Festival aims to bring together some of the newest faces of this phenomenon, daring to present a series of names largely unknown to the Italian audience, often representing the "second generation" compared to the first wave of choreographic experimentation that exploded in France in the late 1970s (the leading figures of that wave were presented in a festival edition dedicated entirely to France three years ago).

The selection has taken into account not so much the similarities, but the differences, aiming to demonstrate the stimulating heterogeneity of this trend and the variety of stylistic influences it has undergone.

Choreographer Sidonie Rochon has a dual background: Cunningham technique and training under Hideyuki Yano, a Japanese master who has worked extensively in Paris. Rochon is an intense creator, weaving a world of strong and deeply mental images, originating from an energetically feminine universe. "Les traits tirés" is a duet that aims to evoke that state of "clairvoyance through insomnia," that strange "inner abandonment" that occurs in the anticipation of sleep.

Coreography by Sidonie Rochon

Music by Mozart (Opus 23)

Sound editing by Luc Bouery and Francis Gorgé

Costumes by Corinne Forget

Lighting by Marion Hewlett

with Marie Faggianelli and Kathleen Reynolds

in collaboration with the French Association for Artistic Action of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the French Cultural Center of Milan