«What is the body capable of?»At the beginning of each creation, this recurring question from Spinoza’s  Ethics  comes back to me. Each time I am assailed by doubt.  And this time even more so, faced with Antonio Vivaldi’s concerto “The Four Seasons”, op. 8.A paradox?Can the music - so well known, so conventional, so gone astray - can it indeed still deliver more surprises, more gray zones, more secrets?Can we erase the tainted image of this music, especially these last decades, that in fine is so sensually meteorological?  And how?First of all, by coming back, again and again, to the writing of the movement, and never letting go of this point, so as to lay out the underlying vital dance. And then thinking the four axes of this work: bursting forth, exaltation, suspension and vibration. Starting from there, then finishing elsewhere; going off-course to where you no longer recognize the four parameters.To share in the scrambling of the leads and transmission of the interferences, I thought of Fabrice Hyber, whose work I’ve been following for several years now, with attention, amusement and  profound interest. Also because he seemed the least obvious choice for this project -- and therefore the most necessary.

Angelin Preljocaj

In November 2004, Angelin Preljocaj calls me.  Curious, I go to see him in Aix, then "N" in Marseille. Angelin talked to me about the  four seasons . I thought that just like the rain, sunburn, storm, the wind, I would be the unexpected. One writing upon his.Creating a sort of weather that one or the other makes or is subjected to.A weather made to order: a chaosgraphy.

Fabrice Hyber

Creation 2005 for 12 dancers

Duration

84 minutes

Choreography  

Angelin Preljocaj

Chaosgraphy  

Fabrice Hyber

Music  

Antonio Vivaldi

Performed by  

Giuliano Carmignola ? The Venice Baroque Orchestra

led by

Andrea Marcon

Lighting  

Patrick Riou and Angelin Preljocaj

Costumes POFS  

Fabrice Hyber

Costumes  

Angelin Preljocaj

assisted by

Claudine Duranti

Associate Artistic Director  

Youri Van den Bosch

Dancers at the creation

Leonardo Centi, Craig Dawson, Claudia de Smet, Sergio Diaz, Céline Galli, Emma Gustafsson, Kaori Ito, Alexandre Nipau, James William O’Hara, Zaratiana Randrianantenaina, Nagisa Shirai, Yang Wang

Notation  

Dany Lévêque

Scenery set builder

Atelier du petit chantier

Costumes POFS maker

Atelier Mixtur

Costumes maker

Atelier of Théâtre National de Nice

Coproduction

Festival Montpellier Danse '05,

Théâtre de la Ville - Paris

With the support of Nuits de Fourvière, Département du Rhône

Working residence at

Théâtre National de Nice - Centre Dramatique National

Thanks to Spring Court, the Villa Arson and to the Théâtre National of Nice.

Premiere on 1 July 2005 at Festival Montpellier Danse '05