For this new creation, which will premiere in 2022, Pol Pi has invited four musicians from the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop of Berlin to embody Dmitri Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 with gestures, words and music. An instrumentalist himself before becoming a dancer, Pol will draw on Shostakovich’s score to experiment with corporal translations of the musical vocabulary. Anna Faber (violin), Mia Bodet (violin), Yodfat Miron (viola) and Sophie Notte (cello) will embody the different movements of this quartet, composed in remembrance of the victims of fascism and war.
Conception, choreography and artistic direction: Pol Pi # Creation and interpretation: Anna Faber (violin), Mia Bodet (violin), Yofdat Miron (viola) et Sophie Notte (cello) # Dramaturgy: Gilles Amalvi # Lights design and creation of luminous objects: Rima Ben Brahim # Costume design: La Bourette, assistée de Lucie Lizen # Sound controls: Baptiste Chatel # Production: Sarah Becher # French premiere : Montpellier Danse, Montpellier – June 2022 # German premiere :PACT Zollverein, Essen – October 2022 # Production: NO DRAMA and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop # Executive production: Latitudes Prod. – Lille # Co-productions: Montpellier Danse ; CCNO – Centre chorégraphique National d’Orléans ; Fonds Transfabrik – Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant ; CCN – Ballet National de Marseille ; Centre national de danse contemporaine d’Angers ; centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie, dans le cadre de l’Accueil-studio/Ministère de la Culture ; Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape, direction Yuval PICK, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio ; Festival NEXT ; BUDA Kunstencentrum Kortrijk ; PACT / Zollverein Essen # Project funded by the Federal Government German Federal Cultural Foundation Commissioner for Culture and the Media; The Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin , Fonds Transfabrik – Fonds franco-allemand pour le spectacle vivant. The project is supported by la Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations.
NO DRAMA is supported with a structural funding by la DRAC Île-de-France. Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop is funded by The Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin
Pol Pi
is a transmasculine choreographer originally from Brazil, based in France since 2013, the year he joined the exerce master in choreography program at the CCN of Montpellier. Before encountering contemporary dance, he worked in theater, music and opera, having been a professional musician for over 10 years. Pol is interested in expanding the scope of the field of choreography, exploring questions of memory and temporality, language and translation, and the concept of the archive in dance, with a particular interest for site-specific work. In 2017, he founded the company NO DRAMA in France and has since created the solos ECCE (H)OMO (2017), ALEXANDRE (2018), Me Too, Galatée (2018) and LA (2019). In 2020, he created daté-e-s, an intergenerational trio created for the Rencontres Chorégraphiques de Seine Saint-Denis.
Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop Berlin
Founded in Berlin in 2006, the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop experiments with innovative forms of musical investigation. In close collaboration with artists from other genres, Kaleidoskop expands the meaning of musicality; the musicians themselves also become performance artists. From early baroque to contemporary music, Kaleidoskop cooperates actively with Radialsystem in Berlin. It has been invited to renowned festivals such as Kunstfest Weimar, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Sydney Festival, Holland Festival, operadhoy Madrid… Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop has collaborated with artists such as Sasha Waltz, Susanne Kennedy, Sabrina Hölzer, Jennifer Walshe, Laurent Chétouane and the group Mouse on Mars.
