Paris Opera's triple bill: Teshigawara, Brown and Kylián

By Katja Vaghi, 05 November 2013

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Reviewed at Opéra national de Paris: Palais Garnier, Paris on 2 November 2013

Darkness is hiding black horses (Saburo Teshigawara)

Glacial Decoy (silent ballet) (Trisha Brown)

Doux Mensonges (Jiří Kylián)

Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris

Les Arts Florissants

Paul Agnew, Conductor

Teshigawara recreates a contemporary Petrushka at the Biennale Danza

Silvia Poletti, 22nd July

A new Petrushka full of contemporary anguish as Japanese artist Saburo Teshigawara presents a world premiere to celebrate his Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement award in Venice.

****1

Aesthetic unity shines in bold staging of Orfeo ed Euridice in Tokyo

Nahoko Gotoh, 19th May

Several notable house debuts, including the renowned director and choreographer Sabuto Teshigawara, enlivened the New National Theatre's first-ever production of Gluck's opera.

****1

Teshigawara takes on Dostoevsky: The Idiot at the Print Room

Graham Watts, 27th March

Teshigawara is now 65 and it is beyond comprehension that a man can still move with such muscular control and feline fluidity well into his seventh decade.

***11

French Baroque meets modern dance at Drottningholm

Laura Servidei, 31st July

Saburo Teshigawara sets Rameau’s opéra-ballet Pigmalion as a compelling dance performance

***11

Saburo Teshigawara takes on Wagner

Carla Escoda, 10th March

Saburo Teshigawara's condensed reading of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde plays down notions of an adulterous union, a lovers' pact and spiritual journey, instead delivering a powerful image of female resilience.

*****

Goteborgs Operan Danskompani: Spirit

Sofia Nyblom, 4th April

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Saburo Teshigawara present a double-bill under the heading Spirit. At the Gothenburg Opera. The evening promises high quality, yet harbors the danger that the level of abstraction which permeates the two works might undermine the urgency of the message.

****1

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Katja Vaghi

With a background in Dance Studies, Literature and Linguistics (MA English Studies from Zurich University and PhD in dance philosophy from the University of Roehampton in London) and a formation as a modern dancer (Ballet Arts, NYC), Katja is a freelance dancer, choreographer, dance researcher and dramaturge currently living in Berlin.