BRITISH CHOREOGRAPHER NAGEL CHARNOCK TO PERFORM IN YEREVAN
Yerevan, January 29. ArmInfo. Well-known British choreographer Nagel
Charnock will perform in Yerevan Stanislavsky Drama Theater, Jan 31
and Feb 1, on the invitation of the British Council.
Charnock will also give master classes at State Theater and Cinema
Institute.
Charnock has worked in Denmark, Portugal, Finland and Wales as well as
with the Pet Shop Boys as their choreographer for television
appearances throughout the UK and Germany and also their 200
international tour.
He is Visiting Professor at the University of California and Artistic
Director of Helskinki City Theater Dance Company.
Charnock’s unique solo performances rip up and spit out the boundaries
between words and movement, dance and drama, tragedy and comedy. His
dance is based on improvisation.
He is both dancer and actor and combines these two professions in his
choreogrpahy. During a press-conference he said that if he was less
clever he would now dance in cheap musicals. It was boring for him to
learn steps and scenarios, that’s why he began to improvise. For
example, he has no idea what he will do during his Yerevan show
"Frank." The only thing he knows is that he will speak to the audience
about life and death, about general human subjects.
His basic principle is rondo: when the beginning and the end are the
same. In his works he uses the music of Bach and Mozart, jazz and
flamenco. Charnock says that it is very important for him to know as
much as possible about the country he is going to as he always seeks
to become a kind of "mirror" for the audience. He likes walking in
the streets, buying national musical instruments. In Armenia he is
going to buy a duduk.