How to cope with a sunset when the horizon has been dismantled - Marina Mascarell (NDT 1)

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) | Marina Mascarell's new piece 'How to cope with a sunset when the horizon has been dismantled’ for the NDT 1 programme ‘Traces left within’. https://www.ndt.nl/en/agenda/traces-l...

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Video: Harmen Straatman
Music: György Ligeti: Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet: III. Allegro grazioso, written by György Ligeti, played by Albert Schweitzer Quintet.

'How to cope with a sunset when the horizon has been dismantled'
DIRECTION: Marina Mascarell
ASSISTANT DIRECTION: Nina Botkay
CHOREOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE BY: Jon Bond, Conner Bormann, Donnie Duncan Jr., Boston Gallacher, Nicole Ishimaru, Paxton Ricketts, Lea Ved, Tess Voelker.
DRAMATURGE: Riikka Laakso
MUSICAL ADVISOR: Jan Pieter Koch
LIGHT: Leticia Skrycky
DECOR: Ludmila Rodrigues
COSTUMES: Nina Botkay
NDT ASSISTANT: Lucas Crandall
WORLD PREMIERE: February 3, 2022 Amare The Hague

Four musical pieces, dated from mid XIX to late XX century, create a varied melodic scenery for How to cope with a sunset when the horizon has been dismantled. The assemblage of compositions — by four white male referents of western music – is no means following an aesthetic or historical line, but rather constructing a dissonance of styles. The poetic motivation is to enter into a collision between the music and the dancers’ bodies: to resignify our relation with the music, with our referents, not to illustrate given narratives or predictable emotions. The dancing body resists automatisms.

At a time when the great stories that gave meaning to our world are collapsing, and millions of minor but singular stories float looking for their place, the presence of moving bodies claim to reconsider other paths. The practices to subvert our relation with past certainties are indispensable.

How to cope with a sunset when the horizon has been dismantled emerges from the pleasure of composing with bodies, exploring the changing nature of light, cohabiting an ephemeral construction. Lines that fade, horizons that disappear, in an arid world full of constantly transforming filters.

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