Symfonia Piesni Załosnych

Depuis l’âge de vingt ans, Kader Attou est emmené par la Symphonie n°3 dite des Chants plaintifs, Symfonia Piesni Załosnych, de Henryk Mikołaj Górecki. Pour la première fois, il s’attache ici à l’intégralité d’une œuvre musicale.

The dance and choreographic creations of Kader Attou are particularly characterised by a poetry in which the expression of feelings is central. A committed choreographer, one of his signature traits is the imaging dimension of the music that conveys emotion. Since the age of twenty, Kader Attou has been inspired by the Symphony no. 3 called “the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs”, Symfonia Piesni Zalosnych by Henryk Mikolaj Górecki. The version recorded by the soprano Dawn Upshaw and the London Sinfonietta, conducted by David Zinman, is the base of this new work. For the first time, he focuses here on the totality of a musical work. This new creation explores all of its compositional and sensitive aspects, lets itself be carried away by the voice and penetrated by the melodic strength, before uniting in the message of hope. Kader Attou lives his identity as a dancer and choreographer like the imaginary and creative island between two shores. His intimate questioning of origins, racial mixing and otherness establishes a vision and a choreographic universe open onto the world, other cultures and other dances. In the friction of the asperities of each dancer, the attention paid to the other builds a community of bodies where emotion and meaning erupt, a humanist offering of dance. Over and beyond styles, the danced gesture is preserved like a precious gift, a reflection of the richness of humanity, without seeking the uniformisation of the bodies in movement. The danced search is based on the uniqueness of each dancer and the recognition of the similarities, kinships of the gestures and energies of the dancing community. And the sincerity of this dialectic of differences resounds in each of us.