Sing Your Song, Alfred!
The international group, led by the Czech-Italian duo Simone Sandroni and Lenka Flory, Déjá Donné Production, presented their newest performance Aria Spinta in Prague's Archa Theatre. Sandroni, who makes a great impression in the performance with his sense of humor, is perhaps the only foreigner in the Czech Republic who remains and works as a choreographer. Here, he has influenced the formation of the school of young Czech choreographers from the Duncan Centre Conservatory.
Simone Sandroni and co-creator of the performance Lenka Flory were very lucky this time. A performance of great ease, free and balanced rhythms was created from the intentions of Sandroni's favorite poetics of "non-success" and sticky situations, in spite of the reflectors falling down... terrifying the dancers, the black walls collapsing all around the stage, muffling up the characters, revealing the group of dancers happy moment only one moment ago, now hiding before the chaos arrives. Those who remain on the stage lay on the floor for their own certainty. The worried clown, Simone, tries to save everything using his cabaret charm. This time, Flory and Sandroni were very lucky with their dance team. In addition to dancers from Croatia, Bulgaria, the U.S. as well as Sandroni himself, Czech dancer, Ondřej Vajsar (alias Alfréd) feels the stylistic subtleties perfectly with this choreographic work. Everything is one big dance cabaret - civil, funny, and open to everyone.
Nina Vangeli, Lidové noviny, 4. 10. 1999
Aria Spinta (programme from the performance)
Photos from the performance