The inspiration for Swan Lakes? The Dying Swans is a series of 16 short films conceived by Éric Gauthier during the pandemic. Each features a solo pairing one of 16 choreographers with each of Gauthier Dance's 16 dancers.
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Gauthier Dance
Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Swan Lakes
/Marie Chouinard, Hofesh Shechter
Minus 16
/Ohad Naharin
What does Swan Lake inspire in contemporary choreographers? Two dance superstars boldly tackle this iconic romantic ballet for the 16 dancers of Gauthier Dance.
PROGRAM
Marie Chouinard - LE CHANT DU CYGNE: LE LAC: 22 min
+ Welcome speech Éric Gauthier: 7+ min
Hofesh Shechter - SWAN CAKE: 20 min
+ Intermission: 20 min
Ohad Naharin - Minus 16: 40 min
Choreographer and artistic director Éric Gauthier has given two of his favourite choreographers free rein to create their own version of the legendary ballet. Marie Chouinard and Hofesh Shechter appropriate Swan Lake, shaking it up and subverting its beauty in original ways, in two daring approaches that are respectively radical and explosive, leaving their distinctive stamp on their vision of the work. Finally, Minus 16 by choreographer Ohad Naharin completes the triptych. An evening of shocks and contrasts —no gauzy tutus and romantic moonlight here!
Media partner
Hofesh Shechter SWAN CAKE. © Jeanette Bak.
Ohad Naharin Minus 16 © Jeanette Bak.
Marie Chouinard LE CHANT DU CYGNE: LE LAC. © Jeanette Bak.
Hofesh Shechter SWAN CAKE. © Jeanette Bak.
Marie Chouinard LE CHANT DU CYGNE: LE LAC. © Jeanette Bak.
Ohad Naharin Minus 16 © Jeanette Bak.
Happiness, vitality, beauty and energy [...] a resolutely optimistic dance.
Artists
Choreographer
Marie Chouinard
Officer of Arts and Letters in France, she has received some thirty of the most prestigious awards and honours in the art world. She founded the Prix de la Danse de Montréal in 2011 and was director of dance at the Venice Biennale from 2017 to 2020.
Richard-Max Tremblay.
Choreographer
Hofesh Shechter
In 2008 he founded the Hofesh Shechter Company. Today his works are performed by numerous other companies as well. He loves large wild groups, often contrasting them with extremely short, quiet scenes. His dance is restless, grounded, dynamic and free and draws influences from Jewish folk dancing, which to a certain extent he tears apart and reassembles in splinters.
Hugo Glendinning.
Company
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart is a young, dynamic company featuring 16 highly individual, versatile dancers, directed by dancer, choreographer, and musician Eric Gauthier. Founded in 2007, Gauthier Dance established itself in the German dance scene with record speed and has quickly become an international brand.
Credits
LE CHANT DU CYGNE: LE LAC
Choreographer and Set, Costume, Lighting and Video Designer Marie Chouinard.
Composer Louis Dufort.
Rehearsal Director Lucie Vigneault.
Assistant to the Lighting Director Chantal Labonté.
Production Manager Jérémie Boucher.
The work includes Un violador en tu camino by and with the courtesy of Colectivo LASTESIS.
SWAN CAKE
Choreography & Composition Hofesh Shechter.
Lighting Design Mario Daszenies & Hofesh Shechter.
Costume Design Gudrun Schretzmeier & Hofesh Shechter.
Assistant Kim Kohlman.
MINUS 16
Choreography Ohad Naharin.
Costume Design Ohad Naharin.
Lighting Design Avi Yona “Bambi” Bueno.
Music Soundtrack from Cha-Cha de Amor, Popular song arranged by Dick Dale, Traditional song arranged and performed by the Tractor’s Revenge and Ohad Naharin, Nisi Dominus by Vivaldi, Song by Arlen Harold arranged by Marusha, Frédéric Chopin u.a.
Staging & Assistant to the choreographer Matan David.
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Artistic Director Gauthier Dance Eric Gauthier.
Company Coach Egon Madsen.
Ballet masters Cesar Locsin, Luis Eduardo Sayago.
Company Management Inga Kunz.
Artistic management Susanne Wildermuth,Daria Mosunova.
Technical production management Holger Reuker.
Artistic coordination set and costumes Gudrun Schretzmeier.
Press relations Nicola Steller.
Tour management ecotopia dance productions, www.ecotopiadance.com.
Costume manufacturing Kerry Rees (Ltg.),Christine Lange, Katharina Ruprecht, Katja Strauss, Anne Sorvat, Maria Kley.
Wardrobe Heidi Dávila García.
Photos Jeanette Bak.
Dancers Bruna Andrade, Andrew Cummings, Anneleen Dedroog, Karlijn Dedroog, Barbara Melo Freire, Shai Ottolenghi, Luca Pannacci, Garazi Perez Oloriz, Rina Pinsky, Arnau Redorta Ortiz, Izabela Szylinska, Sidney Elizabeth Turtschi, Locke Egidio Venturato, Giovanni Visone, Shawn Wu, Shori Yamamoto.
Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart thank our sponsors STIHL, Fashion- und Lifestylehaus Breuninger in Stuttgart and Law Firm CMS Germany as well as our supporters Kästner GmbH & Co. KG, the First Friends and Friends of Gauthier Dance, the Gerhard and Paul-Hermann Bauder Foundation, the Foundation Herbert Metzger und Anneliese Metzger-Nord and the Dr. Roland & Brigitte Schmid Foundation.
Theaterhaus Stuttgart is sponsored by Mercedes-Benz Bank, the City of Stuttgart and the State of Baden-Württemberg.
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