Searching for Home and a new work
MAY 2011 Théâtre Maisonneuve - 8 P.M.Pre-show talks: one hour before each performance
Photo : Martin Kaufhold, Wiesbaden Ballet
Pre-show talks: one hour before each performance
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2009 - 2010 SEASON
TYPEContemporary
CHOREOGRAPHYStephan Toss and Marco Goecke
MUSICSearching for Home : Philip Glass / New work : to come
Searching for Home and a new work
World Premiere
A Marco Goecke Creation
Marco Goecke's well-received appearances at the Stuttgart Noverre Society during the first years of the last decade earned him an invitation to create a work for the New York City Ballet. Goecke grabs people's attention with remarkably inventive choreography. Born in 1972 in Wuppertal, the birthplace of the great Pina Bausch, he was trained in ballet. He danced with the Deutsche Staatsoper in Berlin and with the Hagen Ballet Theatre, where he soon choreographed his first work. Since 2005 he has served with Christian Spuck as resident choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet, a creative workshop for the likes of Kylián, Forsythe and Neumeier. Goecke is also resident choreographer of the Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam. Showered with awards (the Dom Pérignon Award, the 2006 Nijinsky Prize for Emerging Choreographers, etc.), he has created works for Hamburg Ballet, Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, Nederlands Dans Theater and Leipzig Ballet in recent years.
This rara avis excites audiences with novel, off-beat choreography in gloomy, enigmatic ballets performed at amazing speed in which "he reveals a path to the soul's innermost depths" (Stuttgarter Nachrichten). He never stops reinventing movements, mixing shadow-boxing, mime and sudden rapid changes of rhythm. His work demands great dexterity on the part of the dancers. "The young man from Wuppertal has a completely original style that belongs to him alone." (Cannstatter Zeitung, Stuttgart)
Among his successful creations for the Stuttgart Ballet were Sweet, Sweet, Sweet (2005), Viciouswishes (2006), The Nutcracker (his first story ballet, nominated for the 2007 Der Faust theatre award), Alben (2008) and the solo, Fancy Goods (2009). He is working on his second story ballet, Orlando, whose premiere is expected to be held in June 2010. Next year he will create a 30-minute work in Montréal. A real surprise!
Searching for Home
Everyone thinks they know what they mean when they talk of "me." But even philosophers and neurologists have their doubts about this concept, however obvious it seems. The idea of a sole, unique, true "me" is too simple. This is what the young woman in Searching for Home finds. Her various notions of "me" appear as inner spirits that emerge from behind doors and walls as a reflection of her unknown inner being. The spirits are compelling and stir confusion in her daily routine and in the real world. Before she can find inner peace, she must first pacify this palpable threat and acknowledge what is unknown, "the undisclosed."
This inner journey into the many forms of "me" is performed by 16 dancers. The choreographer was literally swept up by the music of Philip Glass and the images that the music generated. Searching for Home has earned enthusiastic critical notices since its creation in Germany in 2008.
"An intelligent, mysterious, evocative work, full of intrigue." Bild.
"Thoss's work seems to take hold of the body, constructing and deconstructing it. Thoss is intense... and eager to show his understanding of a world that he wants to seize." Frankfurter Rundschau.
"Thoss knows how to use the body to express emotions and states of mind that are transformed into great and sometimes extreme examples of dance virtuosity in his hands." "What is remarkable about his works is their limitless character, leaving interpretations open. The works give viewers the time to think for themselves." Main-Echo, Aschaffenburg.
