Swan Lake Solo

Olga Dukhovnaya

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Live performance

maison Folie Wazemmes, Lille
35min

In this Swan Lake Solo, there are neither swans, magical spells nor princes. With the Russian composer Anton Svetlichny, Olga Dukhovnaya has created her own version of the famous Swan Lake, extracting from this classical ballet a solo consisting of multiple dualities.

In 2019, the new museum in Moscow commissioned the Ukrainian choreographer Olga Dukhovnaya to create a new version of this ballet for 32 dancers, to Tchaikovsky’s iconic music. Then in March 2022, after two years of pandemic lockdown, the war between Russia and Ukraine forced her to give up this project. In Russia, Swan Lake has always had a specific resonance since the fall of the Soviet Union, in fact Russian national television consistently shows the ballet when the news of the day is too brutal or violent. Olga Dukhovnaya decided to focus on deconstruction and resistance, concentrating the entire corps de ballet into a single performer, herself. In collaboration with the Russian composer Anton Svetlichny, she created her piece using a reworked version of the music, alternately playful and sincere. A powerful, compelling piece emerged from all these layers, giving this Swan Lake Solo a joyful, thrilling and expressive freedom.

Accessibility information :
Presence of spoken texts in French
Presence of smoke or smoke

With the support of Onda – Office national de diffusion artistique

Biography(s)

Dancer and choreographer Olga Dukhovnaya was born in Ukraine in 1984 and currently lives in Rennes (France).
Graduated from the Faculty of Choreography of Kiev in 2003 and P.A.R.T.S. Brussels in 2006, she moved to France to start a master program in dance at CNDC Angers (in partnership with Paris 8 University). She’ve got her master’s degree in choreography in 2013.
Her piece KOROWOD, created in 2013 receives the third prize in the contest “Danse élargie” Organized by Musee de la Danse and the Théâtre de la Ville-Paris (2013).
In 2018 she makes a piece Sœur in collaboration with Robert Steijn.
In 2022 she creates a Swan Lake Solo whose challenge is to embody with a single performer all the roles of the ballet.
As a dancer she has collaborated with the choreographers Boris Charmatz, Maud le Pladec, Ashley Chen and took part in a video installations of Aernout Mik.

Credits

Choreography Olga Dukhovnaya
Based on a free interpretation of Tchaikovsky’s Ballet
Choreographic score Olga Dukhovnaya & Alexis Hedouin
Sound score Anton Svetlichny
Lighting and costume score Guillaume Jouin & Marion Regnier
Outside Eye François Maurisse
Stage management François Aubry/Felix Löhmann
Production Manager Amélie-Anne Chapelain
Photo credits Doriane Rio

Production C.A.M.P
Co-production le Quartz – Scène Nationale de Brest ; Au bout du plongeoir & la Coopération Nantes-Rennes-Brest-Rouen – Itinéraires d’artiste(s).
With the support of the Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and of the DRAC Bretagne.
Thanks to CCNRB – Collectif FAIR-E for the studio space.

C.A.M.P is an association that receives grants from the Ministry of Culture (Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles / Bretagne), the cities of Lorient, Port-Louis, Locmiquélic, the Regional Council of Brittany and Morbihan Departemental Council.