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BAKARABIA (Trab el Beldane), HOSPODARSKE NOVINY, Prague, Czech Republic, 20/02/2004 bakarabia_hospodarskenov_20.jpg

Bakarabia, the new choreographic work of French "clown" and philosopher, Pierre Nadaud, takes its title from the book by Henri Michaux. Nadaud presented it at Prague's Ponec Theatre and worked with dancers from the Czech and Slovak Republics, France and Great Britain, brought together in the Mamacallas Company.

The theme which stimulates the artist is space - defined in 'Bakarabia' by a white floor and light. And also music: baroque 'hits' and classical operatic arias make the civilian choreography remarkable. The structure of the piece is subject to the physical rules of a child's game. Groups and individuals gather together, branch off, regroup like molecules. If the performance had some sort of hero, it was the only non-dancer amongst the performers, Jacques Eloi Genot.(...)

The child-like poetry of 'Bakarabia' recalls the last performance of Pierre Nadaud: 'Its Light Body', which was a movement dialogue between Pierre and a little girl. The performance is subtle, above all also delicate, its success with the audience reliant on the subjective timing of the dancers. The final interrogation of Jacques by the characters submerged by the encompassing darkness returns us to the beginning. Was the whole a gambling initiative of Jacques, the wanderer?
Nina Vangeli

RESPEKT, Prague, Czech Republic, 10-16/05/2004 bakarabia_respekt_04.jpg

A complex work, profound and original (...), inspired by the book 'Journey in Great Garabagne' by Henri Michaux, which slowly draws the character traits of the dancers who are at first featureless and who step by step find themselves influenced by sensations provoked reciprocally.
Jaroslav Pašmik

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modified 03.01.2008

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