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BLUE-BACH

ABOUT BLUE-BACH

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CAST

Choreography: Roberta Pisu

Composition: Adam clausen, Bach (arranged for baritone saxophone)

Music: Jure Knez

Dancer: Edoardo Cino, Sofia Casprini

Costume design: Roberta Pisu- Francesca Poglie

Tayloring: Lucia Zettl

Choreographic assistant: Francesca Poglie

Camera: Michael Champs.

Video editing: Jure Knez

Photography:  Robert Fischer

Production: arcis_collective, BLZT

 

 

 

BLUE- BACH brings chamber music and contemporary dance into one listening space. The performance moves through paired states, calm and storm, surface and depth, melancholy and serenity. It treats them as one inner landscape.

At the center are Bach’s Cello Suites, revoiced for baritone saxophone. Breath, pressure, and vibration shape the sound, giving the music a dense, warm presence. Bach’s architecture stays intact while the timbre shifts, opening new color and weight.

The Suites carry dance inside their structure. Pulse and phrasing hold physical intelligence, and repetition turns into ritual. The music can feel grounded and earthy, then suddenly vast and open, like water, like sky, like blue.

Blue becomes the atmosphere of the piece. It suggests distance and depth, clarity and longing, serenity and melancholy. These resonances shape the stage world as a sensory field where sound, movement, and perception meet.

Between Bach’s movements, contemporary interludes by Adam Clausen enter the score. Electronic textures widen the acoustic palette and deepen the dramaturgy. They shift light and density, moments where serenity bends toward shadow and stillness gathers momentum.

3 Performers inhabit the stage as shifting shades of blue. They do not illustrate the music. They live inside it. Their duet holds opposites as interdependent forces, calm and unrest, clarity and shadow, always reshaping the shared landscape. Forms dissolve and return. Weight passes from one body to the other. The poetry of Bach comes through the choreography without losing the underlying pulse.

Water returns as a guiding image. It yields and persists. It carves, carries, and transforms. BLUE: BACH follows this logic in its rhythm and flow. Intensity rises and dissolves. Time expands and contracts. The pulse continues underneath.

In BLUE: BACH, sound and movement flow into a single current. The audience is invited not only to watch or to listen, but to enter a state of heightened perception, to sense the quiet strength of water, the depth of blue, and the timeless beauty of Bach.

Their choreography grows from musical energy and structure, shaping counterpoint, friction, and resonance. Roles circulate, qualities migrate, and the landscape changes while remaining recognizable.

© Roberta Pisu. Photo © Frèderic Chais 

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