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Quiet Light
Cindy Van Acker
Tickets on sale from 12 pm of December 22, 2024. With Explorer, Insider and Supporter memberships available in advance from December 20.
Running time: 55'
Swiss choreographer Cindy Van Acker’s fascinating new creation is a powerful and atmospheric duet inspired by the works of Flemish painter Leon Spilliaert. Through dance, Van Acker seeks the diaphanous nature and the beloved, deep blacks of his paintings. Quiet Light is inhabited by dancers, Stéphanie Bayle and Daniela Zaghini, who modulate the stage with their presence and absence in a remarkably planned interplay of shadow and light, full of trompe-l’œil, spectacular jumps in scale, and breathtaking superimpositions. The striking alikeness of these two bodies intertwine with empty space, revealing theater in its essence: the sensations of ephemerality and evanescence, which are the true strength of a live performance.
Having trained in ballet in Antwerp, Cindy Van Acker danced for the Royal Ballet of Flanders and the Grand Théâtre in Geneva before joining the Geneva contemporary dance scene in the 1990s. In 2002 she founded Compagnie Greffe. Since then she has created about thirty pieces for Cie Greffe, as well as works for Ballet de Lorraine, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève, P.A.R.T.S. and choreographies for Romeo Castellucci's productions. In November 2017, she became an associate artist of the ADC in Geneva, under the direction of Anne Davier. Her works Diffraction and Speechless Voices received the Choreographic Production Award from the OFC. She is a winner of the Swiss Performing Arts Award 2023 / Hans Reinhart Ring and the Leenaards Cultural Award 2023.
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Due to ongoing works in Triennale, the theater is not accessible by lift. To avoid the stairs, enter through the gate in the park, in Viale Alemagna. The entrance is also accessible to people with disabilities.
Credits
Concept and choreography: Cindy Van Acker
Movement creation and interpretation: Stéphanie Bayle, Daniela Zaghini
Stage and lighting design: Victor Roy
Music: Existing pieces by Lea Bertucci
Sound creation and diffusion: Denis Rollet
Costumes: Marie Artamonoff
Outside eye: Maud Blandel
Technical direction: Mansour Walter
Sound direction: Benjamin Vicq
Light direction: Denis Rollet
Production: Cie Greffe
Co-production: LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Pavillon ADC, Geneva, Théâtre Vidy - Lausanne
Support: City of Geneva, Republic and Canton of Geneva, Pro Helvetia – Swiss Arts Council, Ernst Göhner Stiftung
Compagnie Greffe benefits from a regional support agreement – Transmission – with the Republic and Canton of Geneva, the City of Geneva, Pavillon ADC - Geneva, and Fondation de l’Hermitage - Lausanne for the period 2025-2027
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