| TOURING IN THE NETHERLANDS FROM 10 MAY TILL 10 JUNE 2012! Silent Screen (2005) is a ballet that is seemingly set up like a film. Not only because of the three large screens that show (though never pre-dominatingly) film fragments in which a couple in love and a little girl go through various emotional phases, but also because Sol León and Paul Lightfoot's repertory of movements refers to the influences of their major source of inspiration for this ballet: the silent films of the 1920s and the enormous expressiveness of the actors in those days. The changing rhythms and the original formations of the ten dancers are surprising and create cinematic effects: a character suddenly sneaks around a dancing couple; sometimes the dancers seem to carry on a dialogue with the film images, while at others they seem to merge with them. With the layered music of Philip Glass (Glassworks) León and Lightfoot have created a unique universe in Silent Screen. ...45 breathtaking minutes... Silent Screen is the longest and probably the most beautiful and captivating piece by the duo. (Telegraaf writing about Silent Screen, 2005) Silent Screen (2005) is een ballet dat lijkt opgezet als een film. En dat komt niet alleen door de drie grote schermen die (nimmer overheersende) filmfragmenten tonen waartegen een liefdeskoppel en een klein meisje verschillende emotionele stadia doorlopen. Ook het bewegingsarsenaal van Sol León en Paul Lightfoot verwijst naar de invloed van hun grote inspiratiebron ... |
