Uncertainty, regarded as one of the feelings that prompt investigation and progress in life in general, and also in the field of creation, is the theme which unites two choreographies by Madrid’s Nazareth Panadero and Michael Strecker, her colleague from the company she has been working with, Pina Bausch’s Thanztheater Wuppertal. The first piece they'll be presenting is Two Die For, a choreography first performed in February and which uses movement to express those sensations and feelings that can't be put into words, conveying them to audiences and inviting them to read between the lines with the hope they will also have a meaning for spectators. The second piece is Mañana temprano, which contrasts two basic human emotions: fear and hope. The experiences of the four creators of the choreography contribute to a piece that speaks of vulnerability, of freedom, rites of passage and more, through a hybrid language where live dance is accompanied by video images. Besides Panadero and Strecker, the piece is also authored by Germany’s Adolphe Binder, who has just been named as the artistic director of the Ballett Theater Basel, and by dancer, visual artist and director Meritxell Aumedes, who has just released the short film All it takes.
Unrelated to the artist’s usual work with Thanztheater Wuppertal, these two pieces are a good way of discovering first-hand the work of Nazareth Panadero, a dancer born in 1955 who trained in classical ballet and travelled to France in 1976 to join the Ballet Théâtre Contemporaine d'Angers (France), where she came into contact with modern dance. She discovered Pina Bausch in 1979 and was accepted to the Thanztheater Wuppertal, where she was performing for years with her partner, Poland’s Jamisz Subicz. In 2014 she won the National Dance Award for Interpretation from the Spanish Ministry for Culture.
A co-production by the Grec 2022 Festival de Barcelona, Centro Coreográfico Canal and Teatros del Canal (Madrid).
Mañana temprano
A co-production by the Grec Festival de Barcelona 2022, Adolphe Binder, Meritxell Aumedes Molinero; eyemotional, Binder + Partners Berlin (Germany), Centro Coreográfico Canal, Teatros del Canal
With the support of: eyemotionaL (Germany), Goethe Institut Madrid (Spain), Centro de Artes Escénicas de Vitlycke Performing Arts Centre (Sweden), Artistic Residency, Jagniątków Janusz Subicz ( Poland).
Two Die For
2022 version with the support of: BPBerlin (Germany), eyemotionaL (Germany), Centro Coreográfico Canal and Teatros del Canal Madrid (Spain), Goethe Institut Madrid (Spain)
2019 version with the support of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch
Two Die For
Choreography and scenography: Nazareth Panadero, Michael Strecker, Music: Max Richter, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Ólafur Arnalds, Walter Schumann, Ukrainian violinist from the Paris metro, Performed by: Nazareth Panadero, Damiano Ottavio Bigi, Lighting design: Lutz Deppe, Stage items: Jakob Nissen , Costume adviser: Marion Cito, Produced by: Michael Strecker, Nazareth Panadero
Short film by Meritxell Aumedes
Starring: Nazareth Panadero, Michael Strecker, Music: Richard Wagner
Mañana temprano
Concept, direction, scenography and text: Nazareth Panadero, Adolphe Binder, Michael Strecker, Meritxell Aumedes, Video artist: Meritxell Aumedes, Lighting design: Lutz Deppe, Music: Nils Frahm, Ólafur Arnalds, Joep Bevin, Performed by: Nazareth Panadero, Damiano Otavio Biggi
Photography: Pablo Llorente, Danilo Moroni, Juan Carlos Toledo
