Autumn-Tour in Germany and France

Blanca Li is associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Créteil (France) and will be on tour with her new performance “Le Jardin des Délices” (Blanca Li Dance Company) in Germany and France.

The new piece will receive its German Première during `altstadtherbst kulturfestival düsseldorf´, followed by performances at the Burghof in Lörrach and in Saarbrucken on the occasion of the 2. international dancefestival `n.o.w. dance saar´. Please do let us know if you plan on attending one of these performances or if you would like any further information about the new production.

“Le Jardin des Délices” is a piece for nine dancers and a pianist, inspired by a painting by Hieronymus Bosch. Arousing a delight for the sight – the choreographer Blanca Li dives into one outstanding and enigmatic visual work of art history.
Bosch painted his triptych „The Garden of Earthly Delights“ in 1504. Blanca Li and her collaborators are dunking into his cosmos of grotesque ado in-between heaven and hell and translate it into their own contemporary dance- and film language.

Cephalopods dance in a droll and colourful scenerie, a virtual unicorn drowns in a sea of tears, we meet Nijinsky in a solo, Carla Bruni seems to cross the stage, and Blanca Li confronts us with her view on today´s madness.
« (…) I have always wanted to give movement to this pictural expression of a place where hell mingles with paradise, satire with morality, where the obsession of sins and salvation reaches an unequalled force. In my creations I like to mix various modes of expression. Here the work of Eve Ramboz, specialist in digital visual effects, who has already made two films on paintings by Bosch, will come in dialogue and interaction with my choreographic work.» Blanca Li

Created in June 2009 for the festival Montpellier Danse, “Le Jardin des Délices” was also presented in Paris´ Théâtre des Champs Elysees and throughout French summer festivals.
is a choreographer, film director, dancer and actress. Whether in performance, opera, video clip or feature film, she initiates and realises a great number of projects. Not restricted to one style, she embraces a broad spectrum of physical forms of expression, from flamenco to classical ballet to hip-hop. With her, everything begins, and ends, in the energy of movement and dance.

Blanca Li has choreographed and directed for the Opéra de Paris, the New York Met and the Biennale de Lyon. She was also chief choreographer at Komische Oper Berlin, and has worked at Opéra Massy and for the Théâtre National de Chaillot. In recognition of her innovative contributions to contemporary dance, Blanca Li has won the Manuel de Falla Award, the Globe de Christal and the Premio Max and was named Chevalier de l´Ordre du Mérite and Officier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture.
(Co)Production: Festival Montpellier Danse 2009, Calentito Paris, le Théâtre, Scène Nationale (Narbonne), altstadtherbst kulturfestival düsseldorf, CCN de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne (Accueil Studio), Studio de la Maison des Arts de Créteil, Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Binder + Partner Berlin.

Termine
23.09.
Festival Cadences
Arcachon

30.09.-03.10.
altstadtherbst kulturfestival
düsseldorf

06.10.
Burghof Lörrach
10.10.
n.o.w. dance saar
Saarbrücken

16.10.
Théâtre de Corbeil
Essonnes

30.10.
Tival le Temps d’aimer
Biarritz

20.-21.11.
Bonlieu
Annecy

24.-28.11.
Maison des Arts
Créteil
02.12.
Le Théâtre
Narbonne
04.12.
Théâtre Molière
Sète
11.12.
Carré-Belle Feuille
Boulogne-Billancourt

“La beauté est là, la fantasie aussi, de même que la fascination et une vraie drôlerie. Mais ce qui rend la pièce émouvante, c’est son portrait de l’humanité : tendrement fêlée et terriblement attachante.”
Le Figaro