Tero Saarinen Company - Gaspard

Originally created for the Lyon Opéra Ballet, Saarinen’s Gaspard is an intriguing mix of romance, mystique and seriousness - the dreamlike quality that is also present in Maurice Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit.

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Gaspard, a quintet set to Maurice Ravel's piano composition Gaspard de la nuit premiered in the Lyon Opéra Ballet’s repertoire in 1999. The strong feel of romance and mystique, as well as the presence of danger and weirdness, represented in Ravel’s music are the mental building blocks of the piece.

“I wanted to move in a hedonistic atmosphere in the choreography. Human encounters: waiting, fascination and disappointment as well as an individual’s decisions’ relation to a community were the starting points of my choreography. The polarities of death and sensuality present in the poems of Aloysius Bertrand, which served as an inspiration to the composer, have given the piece and its visuality their own unique spice of weirdness and a dreamlike quality.” - Tero Saarinen

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