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Blue Lady (Revisited)
| Choreographer |
Carlson, Carolyn |
| First Performance | 7.9.2008 |
| Place of First Performance | Biennale de la Danse de Lyon, France |
| Finnish premiere | 13.6.2009 |
| Place of Premiere | Kuopio Dance Festival |
| Style | Contemporary Dance |
| Duration (min) | 70 |
| Scenography | Frédéric Robert |
| Costume designer | Chrystel Zingiro |
| Lighting Designer | Peter Vos |
| Other music | René Aubry |
| Description |
Blue Lady (Revisited) is a reinterpretation of choreographer Carolyn Carlson's legendary solo. Tero Saarinen danced the work for the first time 25 years after the work's original premiere. The work is poetic quest into a woman's life and mind. Carlson was especially inspired by the anxiety and suspicion she saw in the eyes of the mentally ill patients in a psychiatric hospital in Venice. Carlson had the idea of switching the soloist's role to a male dancer. She was fascinated by Japanese culture and in particular the traditional theatre form of Kabuki. Her idea was inspired by the onnagata figures, the cross-dressed male actors who play woman's roles. |
| Other Information |
Archive material compilation: Baptiste Evrard Archive materials: Claude le-Anh (valokuvat), André Labarthe (filmi), Charles Picq (filmi) Creative Assistant: Henri Mayet Other artistic and technical assistants: Larrio Ekson, Valentina Romito, Gilles Nicolas, Fifi, Robert Pereira, Alain Normand |
| Dancers |
Saarinen, Tero (2008) |