A commission for Tanztheater Bielefeld in Germany. This work has been created for 10 dancers of the company, and premiered in Theater Bielefeld on 17th October 2009. The work has been presented as a double bill Sandroni/Zöllig under the common title Just in Time.
The piece is concerned with the status of the innocence, in which no prefabricated opinions exist, and everything is experienced newly all the time. In the focus is the attraction of the impartiality and its consequences. Is the seductive innocence an escaping from the life or does it confront itself with the incalculability of our existence?
Choreography: Simone Sandroni
Set and costumes: Christa Beland
Choreography assitant and training: Christine Biedermann
Dramaturgy: Diether Schlicker
Dancers: Gianni Cuccaro, Miranda Hania, Dirk Kazmierczak, Cordelia Lange, Adrian Look, Tiago Manquinho, Kristin Mente, Wilson Mosquera Suarez, Brigitte Uray, Elvira Zúniga
Photo: archive
Simone Sandroni has been invitated to create a piece on 14 dancers of the Bayerisches Staatsballet in the spring 2008. The performance Cambio d’Abito, which is a part of the tripple bill Schläpfer/Van Mannen/Sandroni, was premiered in April 2008, and is on the playlist of the Munich Opera also in the season 2008/2009.
Bavarian State Opera's repertory offers the most comprehensive survey of Petipa of all German troups, including the Tchaikovsky classics plus “Don Q”, “La Bayadère”, “Raymonda” and the recently added “Le Corsaire”. Other choreographers contributing substantially to the bulk of the repertory are Cranko (the three full-lengths), Balanchine, Neumeier, MacMillan, Van Manen and Kylián through Childs, Ek, Preljocaj, Teshigawara and Forsythe. Its annual Ballet Festival Week opened this year with Van Manen's “Adagio Hammerklavier” of 1973 vintage, flanked by two creations: Simone Sandroni's “Cambio d'abito” and Martin Schlaepfer's “Violakonzert/II”.
Choreography: Simone Sandroni
Performers: Norbert Graf, Wun Sze Chan, Vittorio Alberton, Wlademir Faccioni, Filip Janda, Stephanie Hancox, Joana de Andrade, Emma Barrowman, Andrea Bena, Valentina Divina, Ilia Sarkisov, Sophia Carolina Fernandes, Isabelle Pollet-Villard, Silvia Confalonieri.
Set and costumes: rosalie
Light: Simone Sandroni, rosalie
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Photos ©: Wilfried Hösl
Commissioned for The Big Dance 2008/UK. A Site Specific Dance spectacle that celebrated Bath’s most beautiful street.
Two performances took place outside The Pump Room, Bath Street, Bath on 5th and 6th July 2008.
Choreography: Lenka Flory & Simone Sandroni
Performers: Eleonora Chiocchini, Morena De Leonardis, Daria Menichetti, Virginia Spallarossa
Costume design: Lenka Flory
Production: DEJA DONNE, Lenka Flory
“Internationally acclaimed Italian dance company DEJA DONNE present ‘Windows’, a site specific World Premier for “The Big Dance 2008”. Four female dancers created a physical dialogue with the unique buildings of Bath Street and its everyday inhabitants. In a piece that thrilled people of all ages, the dancers explored the columns, Cross Baths, Pump Room and Little Theatre of this stunning street, before performing in the department store windows of BHS. Inspired by the world renowned architecture of this picturesque city, trailblazing physical dance company DEJA DONNE weaved a magical journey that unites both Classical and Contemporary culture.
The Site Specific Dance Commission – “The Big Dance 2008”, is the culmination of the ambitious 2-Year Dance Development project “Elevation”, jointly funded by Arts Council England South West and Bath and North East Somerset Council.”
Tiago Gambogi, Dance Development Coordinator, Bath and North East Somerset Council.
Photo ©: archive
Mal Pelo company and L’animal a l’esquena in Celrà/Spain invitation for a trio by Simone Sandroni, Pep Ramis and Jordi Casanovas. Presented at Temporada Alta international festival in Girona.
Photo ©: archive
a creation for EN-KNAP GROUP, formed by a young multinational team of dancers this year in Ljubljana, entitled “In Between”, premiered in Stara Elektrarna in November 07.
“Earth” – small and limited place. To get their place and position people suspect, seduce, dominate and loose, struggle, envy and fight. They look to the sky and think of happiness…
“and Sky” - vast and borderless sky. People search for each other to avoid solitude. Finding each other they suspect, seduce, dominate and loose, struggle, envy and fight. They look back to the Earth and think of lost happiness.
Concept and choreography: Lenka Flory & Simone Sandroni
Created and performed by: Luke Dunne, Katja Legin,Tomáš Nepšinský
Ana Stefanec, Ilkem Ulugün
Music: Luigi Ceccarelli, Gaetan van den Berg
Sound: Raffaele Petrucci
Light design: Anže Kreč
Set design: Simone Sandroni & Lenka Flory
Costume design: Lavinia Cascone
Technical manager: Anže Kreč
Sound engineer: Matej Ocepek
Production: Zavod EN-KNAP
Artistic director: Iztok Kovač
Executive producer: Tina Dobnik
Partner: Bunker, Stara mestna elektrarna – Elektro Ljubljana
Photo ©: Matjaž Škrinjar
a solo performance commission by Andee Scott/Texas entitled in collaboration with filmmaker Barbara Schröer created in September 2007 in Castiglion del lago loc. Ferretto (PG).
Choreography and direction: Lenka Flory & Simone Sandroni
Dance: Andee Scott
Film: Barbara Schröer
Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
Set design: Lenka Flory & Barbara Schröer.
Costumes: Lenka Flory
Production: Andee Scott & The Fuse Box Festival (Austin, TX)
Support: The University of Texas at Austin: College of Fine Arts and Department of Theatre and Dance, Teatro Comunale di Tuoro sul Trasimeno, Italy
Photo ©: archive
a commission by the Region of Umbria, a site specific international project Margine Buio was created for Alberto Burri Museum and Festival delle Nazioni in Citta’ di Castello.
The rehearsals with 5 performers took place in company residency in the August 2007. The performance was presented on 4th September in Museo Burri in Città di Castello and on 21st September at Festival of contemporary creation EsTerni in Terni.
MARGINE BUIO
Choreography and direction: Lenka Flory & Simone Sandroni
Dance: Masako Noguchi, Vasso Giannakopoulou, Katerina Skiada, Virginia Spallarossa, Claudia Pelliccia
Music: Luigi Ceccarelli
Trombons: Renzo Brocculi
Set design: Lenka Flory & Simone Sandroni
Costumes: Lavinia Cascone
Production: DEJA DONNE, Lenka Flory
Support: Region of Umbria
Ci sono degli stati emotivi affascinanti, che nascono senza una ragione apparente e che ci fanno credere per un istante, di poter trovare la soluzione ad un enigma o ricevere la risposta ad un quesito che ci accompagna da sempre, per poi sparire così come sono arrivati, inavvertitamente.
Ci sono elementi che provocano questi stati dell’animo e li esasperano, come il buio, la luce, il suono e il silenzio, la stasi e il movimento e soprattutto la loro interazione.
Sono sensazioni al margine della coscienza, legate a chissà quale esperienza remota, a chissà quale fobia, a chissà quale vita.
Sensazioni che ci rendono curiosi e fanno scrutare oltre il margine, dove il buio nasconde le sembianze dell’essere che abita le nostre paure.
In questo margine buio sarà creata una coreografia intessuta d’insinuazioni e suggerimenti, che generano paure ed eccitazioni non originate da coscienti interpretazioni. Gli essicatoi sono il luogo adatto dove trovare il margine buio, dove il buio ed il silenzio, impastati d’irrealtà, sono più veri del vero e al tempo stesso più fragili, ma pericolosamente prede della coscienza.
Photo ©: Archive Festival delle Nazioni
The rehearsals took place in Teatro Comunale of Tuoro sul Trasimeno in March 2005.
Choreography and direction: Simone Sandroni
Dramaturgy: Lenka Flory
Interpretation: Heidi Strauss, Darryl Tracy
Music dramaturgy: Jeremy Mimnagh
Music: Slap Happy
Supported by: The creation was supported by Canada Council for the Arts, The Ontrio Arts Council, City of Toronto, the Bureau du Que’bec a Toronto and Dance Works Toronto.
Rustling Shadows is a high-intensity, rough and impulsive duet. The work explores opposing forces of comfort and anxiety in close relationships, and and its pulsating rhythm creates a tension between
the couple, a play between isolation and togetherness.
Co-commissioned by Four Chambers dance project and DanceWorks, this is the first time DEJA DONNE’s choreography was performed in Toronto.
Paula Citron
review on classical 96FM:
„... an absolutely fresh and delightful piece called “Rustling Shadows” which is the first choreography presented in Toronto by DEJA DONNE from Prague, Czech Republic (A.K.A. Lenka Flory and Simone Sandroni). In the latter, Strauss and Tracy are put through a highly physical ride of swirling emotions that is part sadomasochism, part teasing seduction, and part delicious run. The audience went wild."
Now 21.–27. 4. 2005
Seamless Strauss
In 1999, Toronto-based Heidi Strauss and Darryl Tracy founded Four Chambers Dance Project to treat matters of the heart through dance. Strauss's and Tracy's world-premiere performance of Prague-based choreographic duo DEJA DONNE's Rustling Shadows revealed a witty, fast-paced series of exchanges, dares and pausing portraits. Childlike romping and goofiness, right down to scatological references and an unusual final touch involving water, made it the most surprising of the program's three works.
Photo ©: Jeremy Mimnagh
