ANGELIN PRELJOCAJ,
choreographer and artistic director
Les 4 Saisons...
(The 4 Seasons...)

Angelin Preljocaj, Choreography
Fabrice Hyber, Chaosgraphy
Antonio Vivaldi, Music
Performed by Giuliano Carmignola – The Venice Baroque Orchestra
Conducted by Andrea Marcon
Patrick Riou and Angelin Preljocaj, Lighting
Fabrice Hyber, Costumes POFS
Angelin Preljocaj/Assisted by Claudine Duranti, Costumes

Les 4 SAISONS...
(THE 4 SEASONS...)

What is the body capable of?

At the beginning of each creation, this recurring question from Spinoza’s Ethics comes back to me. Each time I am assailed by doubt. And this time even more so, faced with Antonio Vivaldi’s concerto The Four Seasons, Opus 8. A paradox? Can the music - so well known, so conventional, so led astray - can it indeed still deliver more surprises, more grey zones, more secrets? Can we erase the tainted image of this music, especially these last decades, that in fine is so sensually meteorological? And how?

First of all, by coming back, again and again, to the writing of the movement, and never letting go of this point, so as to lay out the underlying vital dance. And then thinking the four axes of this work: bursting forth, exaltation, suspension and vibration. Starting from there, then finishing elsewhere; going off-course to where you no longer recognize the four parameters. To share in the scrambling of the leads and transmission of the interferences, I thought of Fabrice Hyber, whose work I’ve been following for several years now, with attention, amusement and profound interest. Also because he seemed the least obvious choice for this project - and therefore the most necessary.

- Angelin Preljocaj

In November 2004, Angelin Preljocaj calls me. Curious, I go to see him in Aix, then I go to see ”N” in Marseille. Angelin talked to me about The Four Seasons. I thought that just like the rain, sunburn, storm, the wind, I would be the unexpected. One writing upon his. Creating a sort of weather that one or the other makes or is subjected to. A weather made to order: a chaosgraphy.

- Fabrice Hyber

Scenery set builder - Atelier du petit chantier
Costumes POFS maker - Atelier Mixtur
Costumes maker - Atelier of Théâtre National de Nice
Associate Artistic Director - Youri Van Den Bosch
Rehearsal assistant - Claudia De Smet
Choreographic Notation - Dany Lévêque
Technical Director - Luc Corazza
Technical Manager/Sound Manager - Véronique Dubin
Lighting Manager - Sébastien Dué
Wardrobe - Claudine Duranti
Production Coordinator - Martin Lecarme
Company Manager - Pauline Moss
Stage Manager - Michel Pellegrino
Coproduction - Festival Montpellier Danse ’05, Théâtre de la Ville – Paris/With the support of Nuits de Fourvière - Département du Rhône

Working residence at Théâtre National de Nice - Centre Dramatique National/Thanks to Spring Court, the Villa Arson and to the Théâtre National of Nice.

Ballet Preljocaj – Pavillon Noir
Centre Chorégraphique National

530 Avenue Mozart CS 30824
13 627 Aix-en-Provence cedex 1
Tel: + 33 (0)4 42 93 48 00
Fax: + 33 (0)4 42 93 48 01
www.preljocaj.org

Direction - Nicole Saïd
Production/Booking - Mathilde Cocq/Pauline Moss
Communication - Coline Loger
North American Representative:
Sunny Artist Management
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The Ballet Preljocaj, National Choreographic Centre is subsidized bythe Culture and Communication Ministry – DRAC PACA, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region, the Bouches du Rhône County Council, the Pays d’Aix Communitythe City of Aix-en-Provence.

It also has the support of the Groupe Partouche – Casino Municipal d’Aix-Thermal, Groupama Alpes-Méditerranée (for the

development of some of its projects) and CULTURESFRANCE- Ministry for Foreign Affairs (for some of its international tours). This tour is supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States.