dance
| grande salle | running time 1 hr | presented during the festival TRANS(E)
saturday 17 march 2012 at 19 h 30
Sideways Rain
Guilherme Botelho – Cie Alias
This hypnotic choreographic work oppresses and fascinates at the same time. And it is true that the running, the walking, the rolling, the galloping of the dancers gives us the sensation of perpetual movement encompassing the entire stage. A sculptor of rhythm and space, Guilherme Botelho sets off a pulsing impassioned dance with fourteen artists. The electronic music mixes with sentimental songs, a dancer standing facing the wind before being swept up in an infernal machine. The brute force driving our lives is set into whirling motion, a metaphor for life, a superb moment of collective language and poetic ramble, this piece places Man, like a wisp of straw, in the middle of a continual flow sweeping over him and carrying him farther and farther away.
Saturday 17 March
meet the artists after the performance
assistant to the choreographer Madeleine Piguet Raykov / music Murcof (Fernando Corona) / costumes Marion Schmid after Julia Hansen / set design Guilherme Botelho, Gilles Lambert, Stefanie Liniger / outside eye Gilles Lambert / set workshops of the Le Lignon theatre / lighting Jean-Philippe Roy / technical direction William Ballerio / diffusion, communication Richard Afonso / administration Cécile Buclin / with Stéphanie Bayle, Fabio Bergamaschi, Adriano Coletta, Kiriakos Hadjiioannou, Erik Lobelius, Philia Maillardet, Alessandra Mattana, Danilo Moroni, Ambre Pini, Amaury Réot, Claire Marie Ricarte, Adrian Rusmali, Candide Sauvaux, Nefeli Skarmea, Christos Strinopoulos
Production Alias. Coproduction La Bâtie Festival, Geneva / Théâtre du Crochetan / Théâtre Forum Meyrin. With support from the city of Geneva / the Republic and canton of Geneva / Pro Helvetia – Swiss Foundation for Culture / the commune of Meyrin / the Foundation of Meyrin for cultural, sports and social promotion / the Corymbo Foundation / the Leenaards Foundation. A part of the choreographic material for Sideways Rain was created with the dancers of the Bern:Ballett. Alias operates under a convention of joint support from the city of Geneva / the canton of Geneva / Pro Helvetia – Swiss Foundation for Culture / the commune of Meyrin. Alias is a company associated with the Théâtre Forum Meyrin and the Théâtre du Crochetan.
