Mystic Songs

1989

TECHNICAL DATA

Choreography/Setting and Lighting
Vasco Wellenkamp

Music
Haendel (excerpts Messiah)

Costumes
Helena Lozano

Synopsis
Criação do coreógrafo português Vasco Wellenkamp, autor de várias obras do repertório da Cisne Negro Cia. de Dança, mexe com o binômio música-dança. A música de “Cânticos Místicos”, com excertos de “O Messias”, de Haendel, é uma das mais belas páginas do repertório desse gênio da música clássica mundial. Composta em 1741, teve o seu texto extraído das Escrituras Sagradas, sendo que a coreografia obedece a essa tradição, culminando com o “Aleluia”, cujo impacto e grandiosidade são traduzidas pelas palavras do próprio Haendel: “…Pensei ver todo o céu diante de mim e ao próprio grande Deus!“.

Year of debut
1989

Vasco Wellenkamp - Cânticos Místicos - Cisne Negro Cia de Dança

Vasco Wellenkamp

For 20 years he was resident choreographer of the Ballet Gulbenkian. Wellenkamp has also worked for major companies such as Ballet de Geneve, Balletto di Toscana, Extemporary Dance Theatre, Dance Theatre Comune, Ballet of the National Theatre of Zagreb, among others. The experience he has acquired over more than thirty years of career allowed him, after leaving the Gulkbekian Ballet in 1996, to found his Portuguese Contemporary Ballet Company in Portugal. Vasco Wellenkamp has choreographed numerous works in various companies around the world, including works created especially for Cisne Negro Cia. de Dança's repertoire, such as Sabiá, Keep-Going, Cânticos Místicos, and Passacaglia. The holder of several prizes and awards for his work as teacher and choreographer, since October 2007 he has been Artistic Director of the Companhia Nacional de Bailado, in Lisbon.