The video recording of EARLY MUSIC SWEDEN’s dance production “Terpsichore” with music by Michael Praetorius and choreography by Patrik Sörling has been selected for REMA’s Early Music Day online festival 2024. The performance will be shown 22/3 at 20:00. A wonderful and innovative SEMF performance well worth seeing!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2OoHDP4XiA (ej längre tillgänglig)
”With experienced specialist Patrik Sörling as director and choreographer, the result was a real music and dance party.”
”The remarkable thing about his work was that he created beautiful choreographies for each individual dancer and style, and at the same time managed to create ensemble sets that worked admirably for the growing groups.” Review Dansportalen, by Peter Bohlin 19 juni 2023
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About Terpsichore
World première of an innovative choreography to Terpsichore, based on Michael Praetorius’ (1571-1621) masterful suite of more than 300 instrumental dances. The muse of dance is the main character in the composer’s most famous and only surviving secular piece.
Nine muses, nine musicians, nine dance styles in a colourful, sparkling cavalcade that spans time and continents, based on the Renaissance image of Ancient Greece. Bransle, galliard, volta and courant become everything from baroque, oriental and Indian dance to ballet, voguing and flamenco. The nine muses represent the movement of the body and the mind, what we cannot possess but till experience.
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Credits
The Nine Muses
Mathias Terwander Stintzing voguing, waacking
Pauline Reibell Indian classical dances
Matilda Larsson baroque dance
Elisabeth Ludwig contemporary dance, pantomime
Vafa Nadi belly dance fusion
Nora Ekman classical ballet
Kyrie Oda contemporary dance, butoh
Linnéa Redblad Nordic folk dances
Josefine Chiacchiero flamenco
The Nine Musicians
Anna Schall cornetto, recorder
Silke Gwendolyn Schulze shawm, bombard, recorder, pipe & tabor
Ann Allen shawm, bombard, recorder
Daniel Stighäll renaissance trombone
Nils Carlsson renaissance trombone
Nora Roll viol
Markus Eriksson Junby viol
Göran Månsson percussion
Dohyo Sol lute, baroque guitar
Production Stockholm Early Music Festival, June 2023
Initiative & concept: Peter Pontvik
Musical arrangements: Daniel Stighäll
Choreography and direction: Patrik Sörling
Production: EARLY MUSIC SWEDEN / Josefine Chiacchiero
Costume, makeup, mask: Robin Karlsson, Jerry Milton Ross, Rute Rack
Shooting place: The Musikaliska Concert House