Le Roméo et Juliette contrasté de Sasha Waltz

By Laurine Mortha, 08 April 2018

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Reviewed at Opéra national de Paris: Opéra Bastille, Paris on 6 April 2018

Roméo et Juliette, choral symphony (Sasha Waltz)

Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

Vello Pähn, Conductor

Sasha Waltz, Director, Set Designer

Pia Maier-Schriever, Set Designer

Bernd Skodzig, Costume Designer

Tom Schenk, Set Designer

Julie Boulianne, Mezzo-soprano

Yann Beuron, Tenor

Nicolas Cavallier, Bass

Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris

Ludmila Pagliero, Dancer

Germain Louvet, Dancer

Alessio Carbone, Dancer

Back to modernity: Sasha Waltz’s Sacre

Katja Vaghi, 27th June

Fil rouge modernity for Sasha Waltz & Guests triple bill Sacre at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

****1

Sasha Waltz and Guests' Rauschen premieres at the Volksbühne

Katja Vaghi, 7th March

Only a couple of months after the reprise of Körper and Kreatur, Rauschen, Sasha Waltz' & Guests' new marathon of images, talks of robots, confessions of violence and archaic tribes.

****1

Sasha Waltz’s Kreatur at the Radialsystem

Katja Vaghi, 19th December

After a long break from creations solely for dance, Sasha Waltz’s Kreatur is a step into a new aesthetic direction presenting the body as a living unit of microcells and anatomical fragments at the Radialsystem

****1

No body left behind: Sasha Waltz & Guest and Hans Peter Kuhn Körper

Katja Vaghi, 6th December

A mesmerising catalogue of the body’s uses and abuses in our society, Sasha Waltz & Guest presents Körper an old-time favourite at the Haus der Berliner Festspiele.

*****

Celebrating 25 years of creative vortex

Katja Vaghi, 7th April

Anniversaries are best celebrated with friends: Sasha Waltz & Guests’ “dialogue – wirbel: improvisationen” is a magical celebration of 25 years of Waltz’ unique universe at the Radialsystem in Berlin

****1

Körper, an architectural dance

Graham Watts, 1st March

Not for anyone seeking an evening of entertaining dance theatre – dance is seldom used but when it comes, it is to great effect – but it is certainly a challenging treatise on our perceptions of body (and also gender) norms

***11

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Laurine Mortha

Danseuse amatrice depuis 20 ans, Laurine est une habituée des scènes parisiennes, classiques et contemporaines, et a été chorégraphe d'une comédie musicale amateur.