Dance
Ballet Preljocaj
Angelin Preljocaj
Swan Lake
Choreography: Angelin Preljocaj
Musica: Piotr Ilich Chaikovski and additional music by 79D
Video: Boris Labbé
Costumes design: Igor Chapurin
Lighting design: Éric Soyer
Artistic Direction Assitant: Youri Aharon Van den Bosch
Rehearsal Assitant: Paolo Franco
Choreologist: Dany Lévêque
Length: 1 hour and 50 minutes, with no interval
Swans in Contemporary Tutus
He was considered “enfant terrible” of contemporary dance in France in the 1980s and now, as he celebrates the 40th anniversary with his company, he continues with new stage challenges. Angelin Preljocaj premieres his original version of Swan Lake at the Festival, for which he has rewritten the plot and choreography by Marius Petipa. The creator reinterprets the classic piece from his very personal movement and makes Tchaikovsky coexist with the contemporary electronic music of 79D, covering it with detailed lighting and an audiovisual scenography. Of course, he maintains the pillars of the nineteenth-century ballet –and the tutus, although contemporary–, in which Prince Siegfried falls in love with the princess turned into a white swan, Odette, and is deceived by the evil woman in black, Odile, while trying to free her from her enchantment.
