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A sudden, unexpected faint

A sudden, unexpected faint (2000) is a production by the dance company Wee.

Information

(Objekt ID 2353)
Object type Production
Premiere July 2000
Produced by Wee
Audience Youth, Adults (from 13)
Keywords Dance
Running period July 2000  
Duration 60 minutes

Requirements to venue

Minimum stage width 12m
Maximum stage width 12m
Minimum stage depth 12m
Maximum stage depth 12m
Minimum stage height 4m
Maximum stage height 4m
Blackout Yes
Rigging time 450 minutes
Downrigging time 180 minutes
Audience 500
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With A sudden, unexpected faint by the dance company Wee choreographer and dancer Francesco Scavetta wishes to lure out the audience's own associations and wondering:

He thinks that this wondering can be compared to our need to find out what happened prior to and after a faint.

In the spring program of BIT Teatergarasjen 2001 the following is written about A sudden, unexpected faint by Wee:

"Two dancers, a physical, but emotional dance, accompanied by one of the foremost jazz musicians in Norway today, Jon Balke. Francesco Scavetta was born in Salermo, Italy, and has expansive experience from European performing arts. With Gry Klipperberg, who is known from Dans Design and Ingun Bjørnsgaard Prosjekt among other companies, he started Wee, a newly established and exciting dance company, colouring its expression in nuances from dance and live music.

A sudden, unexpected faint is a duo, with Scavetta and Klipperberg onstage. The inspiration is found in the need for intimacy, and to tell a little story about two persons, the metamorphosis between them, the interaction and the change. Beautifully choreographed images and beautiful live music in interaction, where fragile dance warms up with humour and is acrobatic as a caressing hand.

The company brings the jazz musician Jon Balke along. (...) In A sudden, unexpected faint he performs especially composed material live onstage. The production had its premiere in July 2000 at Festival Internazionale Inteatro Polverigi and has visited Marseilles, before touring Italian and Norwegian venues this year."

Source:

Spring program, 2001, BIT Teatergarasjen

Contributors (10)
Name Role
Francesco Scavetta – Choreography
Jon Balke – Composer
Tone Myskja – Stage design
Antti Bjørn – Costume
Fernanda Pessolano – Costume
Tone Myskja – Video/Film
Jean Vincent Kerebel – Lighting design
Gry Kipperberg – Dancer
Francesco Scavetta – Dancer
Jean Vincent Kerebel – Technician
Performance dates
Navember 4, 2001Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
Navember 3, 2001Teaterhuset Avant Garden Show
April 8, 2001Danseteatret / Turnhallen, Carte Blanche Show
April 7, 2001Danseteatret / Turnhallen, Carte Blanche Show
March 11, 2001Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
March 10, 2001Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
March 9, 2001Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
March 8, 2001Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater Show
March 7, 2001Store scene (Vika), Black Box teater National premiere, Norway
July 2000 Worldwide premiere
Press coverage

Annette Mürer in Dagbladet wrote:

"As a dance poet Scavetta has a smooth musicality in spirit and body, enchanting to follow either he plays the clown or follows the music into intense devotion... See him suddenly show up underneath the woman's enormous, rotating dress-skirt on an old tricycle, for so eagerly, playfully, pulling the grand piano around the stage. And Jon Balke follows, on the keys. The comedy and tragedy tangle throughout the evening, merging physically when She and He entangled answer each other's movements."