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To mark the occasion of John Cage's 100th anniversary (2012), Casa da Música invited choreographer Rui Horta to create a piece about Sonatas and Interludes, one of Cage's reference works for prepared piano. A solo for a "prepared body" in conversation with a prepared piano.
To play the 20 short pieces of Sonatas and Interludes, the piano follows a rigorous preparation, each one clearly described in the score sheet by Cage, and the instrument is invaded and contaminated by all manner of small objects that give it a unique sound. A process that made Rui Horta ponder upon the preparation of the body for the complexity and perfection of a choreographical performance. Danza Preparata is, therefore, a piece reduced to the purest dimension of choreography, a huge challenge where body and music articulate in symbiosis and where strangeness reigns.
To mark the occasion of John Cage's 100th anniversary (2012), Casa da Música invited choreographer Rui Horta to create a piece about Sonatas and Interludes, one of Cage's reference works for prepared piano. A solo for a "prepared body" in conversation with a prepared piano.
To play the 20 short pieces of Sonatas and Interludes, the piano follows a rigorous preparation, each one clearly described in the score sheet by Cage, and the instrument is invaded and contaminated by all manner of small objects that give it a unique sound. A process that made Rui Horta ponder upon the preparation of the body for the complexity and perfection of a choreographical performance. Danza Preparata is, therefore, a piece reduced to the purest dimension of choreography, a huge challenge where body and music articulate in symbiosis and where strangeness reigns.
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Music Sonatas and Interludes John CageChoreography, set design and lighting design Rui HortaPiano Rolf HindDance performer Silvia BertoncelliCostumes Ricardo PretoProduction Casa da Música and O Espaço do Tempo, in collaboration with Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Guimarães 2012 - Capital Europeia da Cultura,Salzburg Bienalle, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen, Festival Musica Strasbourg, Festival Romaeuropaand Vilnius Gaida Festival, with the support of Réseau Varèse