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Dance: we finally find the pearls of the choreographer Dominique Bagouet

2023-03-08T16:13:16.525Z


Thirty years after the death of the man who embodied the young French dance of the 1980s, we are reviving several of his pieces, including Necesito.


Been to

Necesito

?

Dominique Bagouet created it in 1991. A year before dying of AIDS at the age of 41.

Trained with Rosella Hightower, dancer with Béjart, Carlson, Cunningham and Trisha Brown, he quickly became one of the most exciting choreographers of the famous “young French dance of the 1980s”.

His style?

Funny, light, sharp and perfectly built.

Let us judge with

Necesito

.

The city of Granada placed an order with him for a piece.

He walks in the gardens of the Alhambra.

Cross the visitors' carousel with great history, its sultans, its lions.

His daydream carries him into this Andalusia whose echoes reach the heart of the palace.

He defines the list of characters:

“A queen in ecstasy, a Catholic king beset by doubt, a weeping emir, a dreaming infanta, a cowardly bullfighter, a barefoot dancer, a fundamental tourist, a lonely gypsy, a Arab-Andalusian magician.”

Thirty years later, the dancers of the National Conservatory…

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Source: lefigaro

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