ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
HELIKOPTER / LICHT (2025 CREATION)
ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
HELIKOPTER / LICHT (2025 CREATION)
ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ
HELIKOPTER / LICHT (2025 CREATION)
This summer, the Ballet Preljocaj will be performing in the remarkable setting of the Théâtre de l'Archevêché, in the heart of Aix-en-Provence, for two exceptional open-air evenings.
Six dancer-propellers trace their trajectories across Stockhausen’s famous Helikopter-quartet. Holger Förterer’s videos projected onto the floor expose them to rotations of light. Angelin Preljocaj presents a radical, whirring dance before sharing a surprise creation, LICHT.
HELIKOPTER Creation 2001
Piece for 6 dancers
Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
Music Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helikopter-quartet’ performed by Le Quatuor Arditti
Scenography Holger Förterer
Lighting Patrick Riou
Costumes Sylvie Meyniel
Assistant, Deputy to the Artistic Direction Youri Aharon Van den Bosch
Rehearsal assistant Paolo Franco
Choreologist Dany Lévêque
Dancers (in alternation) Liam Bourbon Simeonov, Clara Freschel, Mar Gomez Ballester, Paul-David Gonto, Lucas Hessel, Verity Jacobsen, Florette Jager, Beatrice La Fata, Yu-Hua Lin, Florine Pegat-Toquet, Valen Rivat-Fournier, Leonardo Santini
Command of Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val-de-Marne 2001
Coproduction 2001 La Criée, Centre Dramatique National de Marseille ; Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val de Marne ; Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne ; Groupe Partouche Casino Municipal Aix/Thermal
Subsidized by Conseil Général du Val-de-Marne
Award Herald Angel Award by Edinburgh International Festival
"Helikopter-Streichquartett" is available on www.stockhausencds.com
LICHT 2025 creation
Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
Original music Laurent Garnier
Light Éric Soyer
Video Nicolas Clauss
Costumes Eleonora Peronetti
Assistant, Deputy to the Artistic Direction Youri Aharon Van den Bosch
Rehearsal assistant Paolo Franco
Choreologist Dany Lévêque
Dancers Liam Bourbon Simeonov, Clara Freschel, Mar Gomez Ballester, Paul-David Gonto, Lucas Hessel, Verity Jacobsen, Florette Jager, Beatrice La Fata, Yu-Hua Lin, Florine Pegat-Toquet, Valen Rivat-Fournier, Leonardo Santini
Coproduction Théâtre de la Ville-Paris
World premiere 10 avril 2025 au TDV-Sarah Bernhardt, Paris
Crédits photographiques Jean-Claude Carbonne
PRESS QUOTES
« … HELIKOPTER creates a united whole: booming music recorded in a heliport, lines and figures gliding across the floor by the magic of video, duos tripled and cut with resolute vigour. Preljocaj takes up the idea of the movement of the helicopter blades, echoed in the rotations of the dancers’ bodies, their arm movements and the intertwining of the couples…»
Danser, April 2001
« .«…his show HELIKOPTER, in which he confronts Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helikopter Quartet, a score composed of the whirring roar of four helicopter engines accompanied by four strident violins. This combination is revealed to be of a most majestic beauty, demanding dance to raise its head, and raise the roof too so it will not be crushed to nothing. In a pit of light, with floor projections by the German artist Holger Förterer, which catch the dance a net of signs, and force it to fight back with biting energy.»
Le Monde, 13 March 2001