This piece is extravagant in the use of costume hair, make-up, visual design, music and movement style.
Like many before him, Fredrik Rydman has re-created a well known ballet such as Swan lake and put his own twist to it. With music by Pjotr Tjajkovskij, Adiam Dymott, Salem Al Fakir, Moneybrother, Lune, they have managed to modernize Tjajkovskij's original music, enhancing the Fredrik's modern movement style and ideas.
The costume and make-up is very bold, funny and intimidating in supporting the dancers characters in this production.
The visual effects by Fredrik Rydman and Lehna Edwall is modern and a clever way of telling the story to an audience.
The different art forms used in this production benefitted the performance, pushing the boundaries of modern dance
Akram Khan and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Zero Degrees
This piece is is very simplistic in the use of costume, set, music and make-up.
The use of spoken words, sculptures and music helps enhance the story of the piece; trying to find point zero in life. Antony Gormley created two sculptures that replicate the dancers bodies. One less movable and the other made with very loose limbs. The way the dancers interact with the sculptures, potrays the contex of the piece and supports the choreographer's ideas.
Alexander Ekman A Swan Lake
The work is in three acts. The first, ‘A Play’, looks back to the original, and not very successful, creation in 1877 and involves actors and dancers. The second, ‘A Lake’ is Ekman’s contemporary version of the ballet set in water, followed by a short third act, ‘A Future’. There is nothing of the story as we know it, there is no Siegfried, no Rothbart but the battle between good and evil remains in Odette and Odile, the white and the black swan. Ekman describes it as ‘more like a mirror of life.’
The watery scene in act two is where the company had to learn to dance on water. ‘It’s been a crazy process. You could almost call it slideography. It’s a whole new way of moving. You have to control and hold your muscles in a way that is different than when you run around. On Friday afternoons I couldn’t even walk sometimes because I was so sore in new places’
A new score, for full orchestra, has been written by Mikael Karlsson, a long-time collaborator. ‘He has done a fantastic job, we work so well together and he also helps with the concept.’ enthused Ekman, ‘In Act 1 you hear some of the Tchaikovsky themes but the second act is all new and it’s a very emotional score. We had a run through the other day and we all started crying. We also have amazing new costumes by Henrik Vibskov’. (Maggie Foyer, 20 April, 2014, http://www.dansportalen.se/111/-fler-artiklar/nyhetsarkiv/2014-04-20-a-swan-lake---alexander-ekman-creating-the-impossible.html)
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