Forces - BUSK / Strong
Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève / Aszure Barton / Sharon Eyal
BUSK and Strong form a diptych whose beating heart is the celebration of the performers’ power and prowess.
In the first piece, street performers cross paths time and again: they are funny, fragile, strange and virtuosic, and make no secret of their quest for attention. In the second, a group of silhouettes is animated by movements that repeat, echo and synchronise to electronic music with a relentless and mesmerising rhythm.
Choreographed by Aszure Barton and Sharon Eyal, leading figures in contemporary dance, the two pieces successively explore the tension between the collective’s momentum and the assertion of the individualities that make it up. For whilst in BUSK each performer takes turns seeking to stand out, in Strong it is the unity of the group that takes centre stage.
One is left speechless, fascinated or mesmerised, depending on the moment, by the evolving soundtrack, the solos or the group’s extreme synchronisation. A tour de force!
Collaboration
With the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
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BUSK
Choreography and musical arrangements
Aszure Barton
Lighting and set design
Nicole Pearce
Costumes
Michelle Jank
Music
Daniel Bélanger, Slava Greigoryan, Moondog, Camille Saint-Saëns, August Soderman, David Wikander, Lev ‘Ljova’ Zhurbin
Strong
Created in December 2019 by the Staatsballett Berlin, Germany
Choreography
Sharon Eyal
Co-choreography
Gai Behar
Set design
Sharon Eyal & Gai Behar
Music
Ori Lichtik
Lighting
Alon Cohen
Costumes
Rebecca Hytting
Production
Geneva Grand Theatre Ballet
Support
CA Indosuez Wealth Management, partner of the Geneva Grand Theatre Ballet. BUSK – premiered in 2009 by Aszure Barton & Artists & Sarasota (Florida), USA. Strong – premiered in 2019 by the Staatsballett Berlin, Germany
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Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
The Grand Théâtre Ballet comprises twenty-one dancers. Each season, it presents several original choreographic programmes in Geneva and performs on stages around the world, touring Europe and the Americas, as well as China, South Africa and Australia.
Aszure Barton
Born in Canada and now an American citizen, the choreographer Aszure Barton began tap dancing as a child and trained at the National Ballet School of Canada.
Sharon Eyal
Sharon Eyal was born in Jerusalem and lives in France. She danced with the Batsheva Dance Company between 1990 and 2008.
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