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Documentary
The screening of Giorgos Skevas’ documentary
on the great Greek conductor, Dimitris
Mitropoulos, could perhaps be included among
the Festival’s classical music events.
“Bare hands” deals with the maestro’s years in
the US (1938-1960) as principal conductor of the
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra and the New
York Philharmonic. The title is a reference to the
conductor’s preference for conducting without a
baton. With Lefteris Vogiatzis.
Dance
Sasha Waltz –
Continu
The celebrated Berlin choreographer who first
thrilled Festival audiences with Körper, part of her
trilogy on the human body, in 2006, returns with a
choreography which negotiates the contrast
between primal, instinctive emotion and the spiri-
tuality by relating the individual to the group, and
assigns an important role to the music of Edgard
Varése and Ioannis Xenakis.
Alain Buffard –
Tout va bien
The 2008 Festival saw Alain Buffard participating
both as a choreographer in “(Not) a Love Song”
and as a performer in the revival (2009) of Anna
Halprin’s “Parades & Changes”. Making no con-
cessions in terms of the work’s dominant aesthet-
ic and high principles, Buffard undermines the
codes once again and issues a clarion call to dis-
obedience. His chief concern is emancipation and
reacting to various forms of repression.
Ali Thabet, Hedi Thabet –
Rayahzone
The Thabet brothers from Tunisia –artists with
roots in dance, the circus and theatre– have joint-
ly conceived and choreographed a unique jour-
ney (‘rayah’ means ‘journey’), an immersion in
Sufi music in which the lead roles are played by
bodies, the human voice and the rhythm of per-
cussion driving movements that can be either
fluid or violent.
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