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The Company
A Frequently Painted WindowA Frequently Painted Window contains two one act ballets: "Pesni i tanzi" and "Time Quarry". The idea is to unite dance and music into one expression, and to see how the perception of Time changes. In "Pesni i tanzi" the Choreographer has made a choreography to music, while in "Time Quarry" the Composer has made music to chorography. "Pesni i tanzi" ("Songs and Dances" in Bulgarian) for Flute/Alto Flute, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, French Horn and Piano contains 13 parts: four solo pieces, three duettes, three trios and three quartets. The selection and order is decided by the Master of Ceremony. The pitch material is generated from a row with six intervals. The subdivision of the bars and the rhythms are generated from Bulgarian folk music. 
"Time Quarry" (confer comment in italics underneath) has a tape in addition to the quartet. The pitch material is generated from spectral analyses of the instruments in the quartet. As a contrast to "Pesni i tanzi" where the material within every piece is "locked", but the overall form is "free"; is the material within every section "free", but the overall form is "locked". The word "Quarry" has a threefold meaning: It is (1) a place from which stones are extracted, (2) a source of information or knowledge, i.e. old books, records etc, and (3) anything laboriously pursued. The PerformanceA Frequently Painted Window contains two ballets: Pesni i tanzi (Songs and dances in Bulgarian) and Time Quarry (In the sense of Quarry as a place to obtain for example stone for building something.) The four dancers in biondidanza are: Pascal Franco (France), Alberto Huetos (Spain), Eliane Hutmacher (Germany) og Annette Lopez (Germany). Master of Ceremony/Painter: Jean Louis de la Fontain (Luxembourg) Four musicians from the orchestra Manuel de Falla Cadiz/Spain, are participating in the production of A Frequently Painted Window, who play Flute/Alto Flute, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, French Horn and Piano 
Stage Set José Biondi, Jean Louis de la Fontain (Luxembourg) and Thomas Helbing (Germany) The ballet A Frequently Painted Window is produced by José Biondi and Dagfinn Koch in cooperation with the Nordic Music Days in Helsinki, the Autunnale Festival in Bergen/Norway and the Norwegian Society of Composers. The ballet will be performed on the 23rd og 24th of September in Turku/Finland and on the 3rd and 4th of November in Bergen/Norway. In May next year the ballet will tour in Spain, organized by Circuito de Danza“. Negotiations are going on concerning other places to perform. Contact: biondidanza@aviana.com 
Photos: From the recording in Studio Alta Frequencia in Sevilla. From left: Jose Torrano, Dagfinn Koch and Luis Delgado Pena. Photo by Eduardo González-Barba Capote. Stage set: model and photo by Thomas Helbing. Search Aviana.com: |
The European dance company biondIdanza was founded by the choreographer José Biondi (Spain) and the composer |
The biondIdanza web site is part of the Aviana.com sites. Aviana.com presents the works of Dagfinn and Per Koch. Contact Dagfinn Koch at: Bygdøy Allé 12, N-0262 Oslo, Norway, +47 90264232, e-mail dagfinn.koch@aviana.com. Web masters P&S Koch. |