One Charming Night
Co-produced by Carolyn Carlson - Artistic Director of Centre Chorégraphique National Roubaix Nord-Pas de Calais as part of the 'Red Bricks Project'.
Choreography: Sagi Gross
Dramaturg: Jeroen Fransen
Music: Max Richter, Oum Kulthoum, Henry Purcell
The creation has two versions, for 7 dancers and/or for 5 dancers.
One Charming Night is about identity forming. The difficulties of being foreign with Middle Eastern appearance, living in Europe for many years, dealing with argues, political point of views and discussions, became compulsive for Gross and were very frustrating sometimes. As an immigrant in The Netherlands he sometimes experience xenophobia, alienation and discrimination in daily life. There is no possibility to escape from the feelings that arises from this migration problem, because of nationality. But eventually it doesn’t really matter where you are or which nationality you have.
Press:
''Gross Dance Company of the Dutch/Israeli choreographer Sagi Gross, surprised 200 spectators with electrifying pieces, showing theindividual in search of space and meaning, but often confronted with the limits and reduction of their environment-as in One Charming Night, a piece created in 2009, where the night is not all that quiet. The graceful bodies are quickly bent and curved, continuing with bowed heads under the yoke of love. A video projection, like an oculus, draws a green sun, signifying that all is always both similar and different. On the stage, the solos and pas-de-deux, both simple and complex, tender and violent, form an incisive choreographic journey, energetic yet tragic because the green sun grows to become a rain of mortar shells illuminating the sky and destroying the earth''. (by Brigitte Lemery, La Voix du Nord, October 2012 France)
Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kd8Uv2GLzk
Choreography: Sagi Gross
Dramaturg: Jeroen Fransen
Music: Max Richter, Oum Kulthoum, Henry Purcell
The creation has two versions, for 7 dancers and/or for 5 dancers.
One Charming Night is about identity forming. The difficulties of being foreign with Middle Eastern appearance, living in Europe for many years, dealing with argues, political point of views and discussions, became compulsive for Gross and were very frustrating sometimes. As an immigrant in The Netherlands he sometimes experience xenophobia, alienation and discrimination in daily life. There is no possibility to escape from the feelings that arises from this migration problem, because of nationality. But eventually it doesn’t really matter where you are or which nationality you have.
Press:
''Gross Dance Company of the Dutch/Israeli choreographer Sagi Gross, surprised 200 spectators with electrifying pieces, showing theindividual in search of space and meaning, but often confronted with the limits and reduction of their environment-as in One Charming Night, a piece created in 2009, where the night is not all that quiet. The graceful bodies are quickly bent and curved, continuing with bowed heads under the yoke of love. A video projection, like an oculus, draws a green sun, signifying that all is always both similar and different. On the stage, the solos and pas-de-deux, both simple and complex, tender and violent, form an incisive choreographic journey, energetic yet tragic because the green sun grows to become a rain of mortar shells illuminating the sky and destroying the earth''. (by Brigitte Lemery, La Voix du Nord, October 2012 France)
Video Link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Kd8Uv2GLzk