KVT – Beautiful twice in one week
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The Italians have done it again with OPLAS!!! Another spectacular dance company.
Touch is the third part of a trilogy (Project Spettacolo Umbria) commissioned by the Region of Umbria and the Italian Ministry of Culture – and what I’d give to see performances of Love (2007) and Spazi Di Nessuno (2008).
Touch has been performed in Bangkok and Chiang Mai and what an athletic and superably beautiful ensemble piece it is. The company often signaturized by its stilt dancing (try to see a performance of their Fatidicus for a brilliant theatrical example) and this was utilized in one superb pas de deux.
The music, ranging from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons to very modern, was a marvelous foil and accompaniment to the hypnotic dance and engrossing choreography.
Absolutely fabulous!… Catch bits and pieces of their brilliant output on You Tube and salivate over Julieta e Romeo.
Thank goodness that the company is used to public outdoor performances and all of the the tribulations that go with them. The popping flashes of mobile cameras would have had them off their stilts and all over the floor in misplaced moves otherwise. And the VIP’s in the front rows were amongst the biggest offenders.
And the talkers!!! Nuff said.
| Not a reviewer, not a critic, “Kiếm Văn Tìm” is an interested, impartial and informed observer and connoisseur of the Hanoi art scene who offers highly opinionated remarks and is part of the long and venerable tradition of anonymous correspondents. Please add your thoughts in the comment field below. |
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Here are two pictures I took of the performance. They were taken without the flash of course, but the sound of the camera clicking may have offended some VIPs with their smaller camera.
thx Grace. nice photos
but.. Grace. why not enjoy the performance and leave the #@%$& camera at home along with the mobile phone?!!!!!
I don’t like Touch. don’t know why but I can not get the feeling. I have seen contemporary dance before and I love it, but this time I don’t. The tecnique is great but the soul doesn’t come to me. May be next time I will not be late and be able to get a VIP seat.
Dear Ngoc,
As a photojournalist, there are something we absolutely can not comply. And believe me, I was very discreet. Shooting quietly like a sniper without anyone noticing.
Dear Duong,
Maybe it is the confusion as the story is not quite clear in this performance. But maybe Beauty is all it was.
Dear Grace
Talkers are others who feel that they may not be able to absolutely comply. Phone users may not be able to comply absolutely at all. TV cameramen will absolutely agree that they cannot comply. I guess as a noncompliant audience we may as well go back to Shakespearean days and have free for all theaters with a good supply of rotten eggs, cabbages etc especially for viewers who wish to comply with theater ettiquette to throw at those who absolutely cannot comply.
Dear Ngoc,
What a pointless conversation we are having. I do not mean any offense yet you absolutely have to bring about any means possible to blame me as an individual for all that is going wrong in the current art appreciation scene in Hanoi.
If you consider yourself to be one of those non-compliant audience, then I have absolutely nothing to say. But if you are not, then why bother direct your hatred to us, the less fortunate in the way of appreciating art? Just go ahead and sit there all mighty, laugh at us low lives who have to offend the performers for a living.
And for your information, The Global theater which Shakespeare and his crew performed did not allow for such behavior to the performers, nor the audience. Later, when they performed in special court theaters, the crowd was even more selected, which brings about no ill behavior from the audiences.
Take heed that if you going to a free for all performance, there are something which you must absolutely take it at face value.