RED OMEN

CREDITS
CHOREOGRAPHER | DANCER
Davide Terlingo
MUSIC
S. Prokofiev

PREMIERE
22nd March 1999
'PlanB' theatre, Tokyo

VISUALS

"The fruits will ripe, son, for now keep running across the wasteland"

Commissioned for the 'Fragments' Dance Festival, Red Omen was created and premiered in Tokyo. Freely inspired by Seltzer's book 'The Omen' and Prokofiev's 'Cantata for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution' - an apocalyptic work of fiction and an historical celebration - the show became a metaphor of radical revolutionary forces, of the collapse of existing traditions and the emergence of a new dis/order.

Bolsheviks and Anti-Christ, political and religious faith, preachers and donators of a different world to be built upon the ruins that they have left or will leave behind... regenerative forces that inevitably have a devastating effect on the individual.

Red Omen is a rather dark solo that unfolds relentlessly; sucking the audience into the world of an odd character that, dreamy and crude, reminds us some of S. Beckett's works. The dance style presents theatrical traits but no spoken text, letting the original movement and music score speak for themselves.