Suite Escape.
Escape from the Pas de Deux.
Concept | Choreography
Riccardo Buscarini
Music
P. I. Tchaikovsky, L. Minkus, A. Adam
Composer
Silvestro Sabatelli
Pianist
M° Benedetto Boccuzzi
Costumes
Francesco Colamorea
Lighting Designer
Roberto Colabufo
Production
Equilibrio Dinamico
Co-production
Art Garage
Running Time
50 minutes
Dancers
Four
With the support of
Teatro Pubblico Pugliese and AMAT
Suite Escape is about confronting presence and absence, closeness and emptiness.
Four performers multiply the relationship of the pas de deux by two through the use of intricate, knot-like partner work that pushes bodies off their axes in a collaboration of balances and forces—one that becomes more a flight from the other than the fulfillment of a harmonious gesture. Movement thus becomes, in Suite Escape, a means of negotiation, and the pas de deux a moment of opposition between individual will and the will of the group.
Four performers multiply the relationship of the pas de deux by two through the use of intricate, knot-like partner work that pushes bodies off their axes in a collaboration of balances and forces—one that becomes more a flight from the other than the fulfillment of a harmonious gesture. Movement thus becomes, in Suite Escape, a means of negotiation, and the pas de deux a moment of opposition between individual will and the will of the group.
The creative process unfolds as a return to ballet, an exploration of relationships based on the selection of several classical pas de deux whose musical and choreographic scores are revisited, dismantled, and juxtaposed in a personal and original key.
The title plays on the word suite—which in music refers to an instrumental composition comprising various dances with alternating rhythms but a shared tonality, or more broadly, a collection of pieces from different works performed in a single concert—combined with the word escape, fuga. The phrase sweet escape, pronounced identically, in English evokes the idea of a gentle escape, an escape of love. The lyricism of the pas de deux, the longed-for union of the protagonists, or the drama of their impossibility of remaining together, in Suite Escape takes on distorted and expanded contours, filled with the ambiguities that define human relationships.
The title plays on the word suite—which in music refers to an instrumental composition comprising various dances with alternating rhythms but a shared tonality, or more broadly, a collection of pieces from different works performed in a single concert—combined with the word escape, fuga. The phrase sweet escape, pronounced identically, in English evokes the idea of a gentle escape, an escape of love. The lyricism of the pas de deux, the longed-for union of the protagonists, or the drama of their impossibility of remaining together, in Suite Escape takes on distorted and expanded contours, filled with the ambiguities that define human relationships.
