Tero’s new creation, Double Lives, will receive its world premiere tonight, February 12, at the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in Germany. The full-evening work was commissioned by nordwest, a collaborative project of Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg and Tanztheater Bremen. After the performances in Oldenburg, the production will move on to Theater Bremen on April 10, 2010.
The past couple of months have been quite an intensive period - our apologies that this blog has been a bit ignored during that time…
Creating a full evening work for 20 dancers in two months is a challenge in any case…but add to that the process of a collaboration with an unfamiliar company, new music being composed, video being especially made for the work and all the other areas of the creative process and the totality starts to get quite complex.
Luckily Tero has had the priviledge to have a large creative team with him: on top of all the wonderful people in Oldenburg and Bremen, seven Tero Saarinen Company members have been working with him in Germany. In addition, some of the work, like costume production, was also partly done in Finland.
This has been an especially interesting process for Tero as a choreographer because the nordwest dancers offer a wonderfully fruitful - but also challenging - mixture of talent due to their respective companies’ varied backgrounds. Previously led by Susanne Linke (in 1994-2000) among others, Tanztheater Bremen is considered as one of the most influential companies of German expressive dance. On the other hand, Tanzcompagnie Oldenburg, founded in its current form in 2007, has its roots in the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater’s ballet company.
However, now the end - or should we say the beginning, the birth - is finally at hand. Yesterday’s dress rehearsal went well and the whole team feels - as much as one ever is - ready for the big night! Just a few more hours to go…Even our Managing Director Iiris finally managed to arrive in Oldenburg safe & sound- despite a snowstorm that made some significant changes to her journey…
SNAPSHOTS:
from the last couple of months are online in Flickr
DOUBLE LIVES PERFORMANCES:
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, Oldenburg: February 12–April 1, 2010
Theater Bremen, Bremen: April 10–May 16, 2010
PRODUCTION DETAILS:
from our website’s media-section