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MADAME MONSIEUR – Cathedral of Basle 2002
Press
LA TRIBUNE DE GENÈVE 15.10.2002 (Benjamin Chaix:
Philippe Olza in Basle’s Cathedral)
The Genevan choreographer and man of theatre Philippe Olza has made his contribution to contemporary dance in the Cathedral. The public came in droves.
BASLER ZEITUNG 3.10.2002 (Boris Schibler:
Crossover)
(...) The performance space, with the exception of some older parts dates from the 14th century, the music from the 17th and 20th century, the choreography is contemporary. These are the temporal parameters for "Madame Monsieur 6", a project linking these three art forms around the theme of "an encounter between people". The dance ultimately allows us to visualize the music by finding suitable forms of expression for the music's moods. Likewise the music lends sense and content to the dance.
BASLERSTAB 2.10.2002 (Paola Pitton: A search for clues)
(...) Heightening one's awareness of the cathedral's architecture through music and dance. The Genevan choreographer, resident in Basle, works with contrasts, uses baroque music and song by the Affetti Ardenti ensemble and juxtaposes them with sounds from the 60s in order to hone the spectator's perception. Similarly he enriches the ballet vocabulary of his choreography with contemporary elements.
BASLER ZEITUNG 7.10.2002 (Martina
Wohlthat: Contagious dance fever in the old Council Chamber)
(...) Modern Dance to Couperin's "Préludes non mesurés" and improvisation to Monteverdi's "O come sei gentile". Sara Maurer shoos us into the nave with subtle song. There we are met by pleasing song and once again a storm of movement.
BADISCHE ZEITUNG 5.10.2002 (Stephan Reuters:
Theatre in the church)
(…) Performance art in a sacred place - this no doubt appears an aesthetic provocation to many a Christian. No cause for concern, however. Nothing could be further from the minds of those responsible for "Madame Monsieur". Three female dancers and a male dancer draw on contemporary ballet in a performance ranging from minimal dance to extroverted dance forms in Basle’s Cathedral.
IN LONDON December 2002 (James Nason: Madame Monsieur
in Basel)
(…) Dance in Madame Monsieur relies
principally on the vocabulary of ballet while being minimal but intimate
with flashes of the playful and bizarre. The magical combination of dance,
music and architecture successfully appealed to the burghers of Basle who
flocked to their cathedral to rediscover the space contained in their city’s
landmark edifice.
DANZA & DANZA MILANO December 2002 (R.Simone: A cathedral for Philippe Olza’s Madame Monsieur)
(…) This performance bringing together contemporary dance and baroque music is at once surprising and fascinating. The magnificent quadro of Basle's Cathedral provided the perfect setting for this performance from the 5th to the 13th of October last and generated an intense dialogue between the apparently inanimate and the living. In an atmosphere of uncontaminated splendour and grand classicism Madame Monsieur plays subtly with ambiguity unmasking the one-sidedness of our perception in the process. The audience was won over entirely by the performance.
BASELLANDSCHAFTLICHE
ZEITUNG 9.10.2002 (Paul Schorno: Sounds from yesterday for today’s world)
(...) A large audience stood in line at Basel’s cathedral for the second performance of Madame Monsieur. There followed silence, physical in its intensity. The encounter between space and time, music and movement found expression, on the one hand, in vocal and instrumental music and on the other hand in the contrasting worlds of dance and image.
SCÈNES MAGAZINE 153 / October 2002 (Régine
Kopp: Dance in Basle’s Cathedral)
(...) The originality of the artistic project which Philippe Olza considers a work-in-progress rests in its choice of a venue characterised by its architecture. Since it is the place itself which determines the course of the artistic project and shapes the choreography. The theme is that of the masculine and feminine, the two energies which shape our existence.
DANCE EUROPE N° 56 October 2002 (Emma Manning: Madame Monsieur)
(...) After productions in
Rome, Cracow, Bergen and Avignon, the sixth edition of Madame Monsieur,
a performance embracing dance, music and architecture, takes places in Basel's
Cathedral in Switzerland.
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