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Gauthier Dance
Gauthier Dance
Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Gauthier Dance is a young and dynamic company of versatile dancers with great personality, directed by the dancer, choreographer and musician Eric Gauthier.
As the Resident Company of the Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Gauthier Dance presents exciting contemporary dance created by Gauthier himself and internationally renowned choreographers such as Christian Spuck, Mauro Bigonzetti, Itzik Galili, Marco Goecke or Cayetano Soto.
Gauthier, a shining star on the German scene, is known for his highly original and humorous choreographies. One of the main objectives of the director and choreographer is to present and create a dance that is full of content, that has a recognizable meaning even for an audience not familiar with dance, and that manages to be emotional, disturbing, exhilarating or inspiring to its audience.
Gauthier Dance Company performed on March 2024 in Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao, on Swan Lakes & Minus 16.
Especially for Bilbao, Eric Gauthier has come up with a trio of group pieces that add up to a perfect artistic showcase for the Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart.
The first part combines two contrasting choreographies from the Swan Lakes programme: Marie Chouinard’s LE CHANT DU CYGNE: LE LAC turns the company’s women dancers from oppressed swans into outspoken rebels with an in-your-face feminist message. Hofesh Shechter’s decidedly cool SWAN CAKE, on the other hand, seems like a danced study in swarm behaviour, set to an immersive score of his own making.
After the interval, another treat awaits. All 16 company members unite for Ohad Naharin‘s cult classic MINUS 16. Like in a kaleidoscope, the choreography combines diverse episodes, musical material and moods which Naharin continually re-arranges and modifies. The result is an intense and fitting finale to a tailor-made programme celebrating three masters of contemporary dance.
GAUTHIER DANCE-THEATERHAUS STUTTGART PROGRAM SWAN LAKES & MINUS 16
Marie Chouinard: LE CHANT DU CYGNE: LE LAC
Choreography and Staging, Costumes, Lighting & Video Design: Marie Chouinard
Music: Louis Dufort
The show includes: “Un violador en tu camino”, courtesy of Colectivo LASTESIS
Hofesh Shechter: SWAN CAKE
Choreography and music: Hofesh Shechter
Ohad Naharin: MINUS 16
Choreography: Ohad Naharin
March 22 & 23, 2024
Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao
Previuos performances organised by Mondigromax:
Nijinski
A Ballet by Marco Goecke
Music by Frédéric Chopin and Claude Debussy
November 30 and December 31, 2016
Festival Madrid en Danza, Teatros del Canal, Madrid, Spain
Future 6
Choreographies by Jiří Bubeníček, Itzik Galili, Eric Gauthier, Marco Goecke, Cayetano Soto and Stephan Thoss
January 17 & 18, 2014
Teatro Arriaga, Bilbao, Spain
Poppea // Poppea
Choreography by Christian Spuck
Music by Monteverdi’s heavenly operatic score
Specially composed music by Martin Donner
Inspired by Claudio Monteverdi’s last opera The Coronation of Poppea, in which the Emperor Nero and the courtesan Poppeae Sabina conspire against Nero’s wife Ottavia and the General Ottone in order to crown Poppea Empress, Spuck focuses on the subversive and explosive nature of passion and power, of desire and depravity.
July 25 & 26, 2012
GREC Festival, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona, Spain
November 11 to 13, 2011
Festival Madrid en Danza, Teatros del Canal, Madrid, Spain
A marvel. Dark wonder. Subtle and magnificent. “Poppea//Poppea” by the Gauthier Dance Company brought to us by the Madrid en Danza festival is a piece not to be missed. Claudio Monteverdi’s 1642 Baroque opera “L’incoronazione di Poppea” is transformed into a magnificent remix for modern times by this young Stuttgart-based company.
Don Q.
Dance by Egon Madsen and Eric Gauthier
Choreography / Stage design by Christian Spuck
Music by Franz Schubert, Alfred Schnittke, various hits, e.g.
Set / Costumes by Emma Ryott
Light by Till Grab
Dramaturgy by Esther Dreesen
Music editing by Martin Donner
Choreographic assistance by Tim Plegge
Production management ecotopia dance productions
April 25-27, 2008
Teatro de la Abadía, Madrid
This dance revue, inspired by Cervantes’ novel “Don Quixote“, leads the audience into a closed world of memories and longings.
Egon and Eric, an elderly gentleman and his young companion, live in a tragically absurd community of convenience from which there is no escape. Her ritualized daily routine consists of fleeing into past life adventures and unsuccessfully trying to escape her present. Only the beautiful Dulcinea pulls the two under her spell again and again.
Melancholic, bizarre, funny enough to make you cry, Egon Madsen and Eric Gauthier embody an unlikely couple who serve each other as listeners and participants in their own fantasies.
The choreographer Christian Spuck is inspired by two exceptional stage actors and at the same time pays homage to two dancers – and generations of dancers – who have already enchanted numerous viewers.
