CoFestival – International Festival of Contemporary Dance Dance solo FB event> Over the last fifty years of contemporary dance tasks, commands and scores, formed into different sign systems, started to replace the instance of choreographer’s value and style to a large degree, while conceptual art, which drew an equation between the subject, its representation and the
Over the last fifty years of contemporary dance tasks, commands and scores, formed into different sign systems, started to replace the instance of choreographer’s value and style to a large degree, while conceptual art, which drew an equation between the subject, its representation and the language it analyses and reflects upon, became an integral part of the contemporary dance art. In his virtuoso Solo on Bach and Glenn, dancer and choreographer Albert Quesada merged Bach’s Goldberg Variations (1742) performed by the Canadian pianist Glenn Gould with the pianist’s explanations of his own interpretative procedure (interview from 1981) and used them as a choreography score. The performance presents a figurative and conceptually synthetic approach to a dance solo which made a step further from the now legendary interpretation of these same Variations performed by Steve Paxton.
