The Black Paintings Blue, National Dance Theatre Budapest, 20 September
contemporary
- 20 Sep 2021 7:00 PM
- National Dance Theatre Budapest
After the death of the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, fourteen frescoes were found on the walls of his home in Madrid, where he spent his final years. In the pictures, powerful, haunting motifs emphasised the painter's fear of mental disorder and his bleak vision of the fate of humanity.
Linning revives Goya’s paintings together with her own vision of today’s society and places them into the classical story of battle between light and dark. She reveals to us the battle where we look for light and hope in the time of crisis, tyranny and despair.
Tuned for the supernatural music of Arvo Pärt’s 4th Symphony, Nanine Linning drew inspiration from Hesiod’s poem “The Birth of Gods” as well as from “Saturn Devouring His Son”, one of the arguably darkest, legendary series of Black Paintings by Goya.
The black painting was ordered by the Gauthier Dance Company in 2015. Complementing this, Linning is also choreographing a second part for the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company as a continuation of the short stories of The Black Paintings series.
Blue
Using the blue colour as a kind of symbol, the creators build their piece around its numerous meanings in the performance.
They simply colour the characters and raise a wide variety of associations in the audience through a play resulting from the formal and colour differences created in this manner between groups and individuals.
The work shows the suffering and the desire for freedom of the person closed in social conventions, the individual ambitions against them and the strength of the community that suppresses the presence of transcendence.
The creators discuss the constant cycle of the alternation of two opposing worlds, the opposition of freedom and bondage and, at the same time, their belonging together. In the English language, the word “blue” can carry extra content in addition to indicating a colour; it also means a kind of sad mood. This additional meaning justifies the choice of title for the work.
Linning revives Goya’s paintings together with her own vision of today’s society and places them into the classical story of battle between light and dark. She reveals to us the battle where we look for light and hope in the time of crisis, tyranny and despair.
Tuned for the supernatural music of Arvo Pärt’s 4th Symphony, Nanine Linning drew inspiration from Hesiod’s poem “The Birth of Gods” as well as from “Saturn Devouring His Son”, one of the arguably darkest, legendary series of Black Paintings by Goya.
The black painting was ordered by the Gauthier Dance Company in 2015. Complementing this, Linning is also choreographing a second part for the Szeged Contemporary Dance Company as a continuation of the short stories of The Black Paintings series.
Blue
Using the blue colour as a kind of symbol, the creators build their piece around its numerous meanings in the performance.
They simply colour the characters and raise a wide variety of associations in the audience through a play resulting from the formal and colour differences created in this manner between groups and individuals.
The work shows the suffering and the desire for freedom of the person closed in social conventions, the individual ambitions against them and the strength of the community that suppresses the presence of transcendence.
The creators discuss the constant cycle of the alternation of two opposing worlds, the opposition of freedom and bondage and, at the same time, their belonging together. In the English language, the word “blue” can carry extra content in addition to indicating a colour; it also means a kind of sad mood. This additional meaning justifies the choice of title for the work.
Place: National Dance Theatre Budapest
Address: 1024 Budapest, Kis Rókus u. 16-20.
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