Lanfranco Cis and Paolo Manfrini, artistic directors of Oriente Occidente, will lead the discussion.
“Once I had a sweetheart, and now I had none
He’s gone and leave me, he’s gone and leave sorrow and moan
Last night in sweet slumber I dreamed I did see
My own precious jewel sat smiling by me
And I awakened I found it not so
My eyes like some fountain with tears overflow
I’ll venture through England, through France and through Spain
All my life I will venture the watery main
Once I had a sweetheart...”
Once, Joan Baez
From the music of Steve Reich to the scores of Thierry Ann de Mey, through the works of Monteverdi, Bach, and Mozart, and extending to Bartók and the jazz of Miles Davis, music has been a crucial element in the representation and creation of choreography from the earliest works of Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. While Desh oscillates between the jazz of John Coltrane and Indian sacred music, in Once, it is the vibrations of Joan Baez's voice that accompany the disarmingly delicate movements of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker.
