In Fuga (Part I)
Samir Calixto
For his newest piece the choreographer Samir Calixto takes on the 1st part of Bach’s masterpiece “The Art of the Fugue” and explores its stringent compositional variation and musical power. Bach’s last work is a “thinking in music” and unfolds its manifold poetry and tension in the ingeniousness of its construction. Along the same lines, Calixto focuses on thinking in dance and pursues the physical power of movement in the full devotion of the body. Thus, in the friction of the two arts, the complexity of our liveliness, transience and perfection unfolds before us.
Conzept und Choreography: Samir Calixto | Dancers: Kossi Sebastien Aholou-Wokawui, Leila Bakhtali, Oh Changik, Albert Galindo, Jure Gostinčar, Einav Kringel | Costume Design: Samir Calixto | Costume manufacture: Lena Kirschberger | Light: Samir Calixto (Design), Laurent Schneegans | Production Assistant: Augusto Jaramillo Pineda | Photo: Marianne Menke | Production: steptext dance project, Landerer&Company | Coproduction: KORZO Den Haag
Performance Dates
2022
03 March 2022
Parktheater Iserlohn
In a double evening with THE RESONANCE
11 March 2022
12 March 2022
13 March 2022
Schwankhalle Bremen
In a double evening with SONGS OF LOVE AND BONES
2021
LOT-Theater Braunschweig
30 January (cancelled)
31 January (cancelled)
In a double evening with SILENT HEROES
Schwankhalle Bremen
02 February (cancelled)
03 February (cancelled)
04 February (cancelled)
In a double evening with SILENT HEROES
2020
Schwankhalle Bremen
16 September (Preview)
17 September (UA)
18 September
19 September
In a double evening with SILENT HEROES
Press Reviews
It really grabbed me. Of Curious Nature is a dance ensemble that has to be preserved – even beyond the two years of funding! The second part of this double evening, which should have had its world premiere in May, continues the decades-long tradition of dance theater in Bremen, but the first part shows how versatile this new ensemble is.
(Marcus Behrens, Radio Bremen; September 17, 2020)
This evening began with a choreography by Samir Calixto, who sent six dancers into the limelight to the always equally beautiful music of Bach’s fugues, whereby this light actually always remained diffuse over the entertaining three-quarters of an hour. Unlike the dance, which changed from fugue to fugue, becoming more and more alive, taking more space and more touching – while the fugues of Bach remained simply the fugues. A brilliant idea!
(Marcus Behrens, Radio Bremen; September 17, 2020)