Mystic Songs

1989

  • Cânticos Místicos - Cisne Negro Cia de Dança
  • Cânticos Místicos - Cisne Negro Cia de Dança
  • Cânticos Místicos - Cisne Negro Cia de Dança
  • Cânticos Místicos - Cisne Negro Cia de Dança

TECHNICAL DATA

Choreography/Setting and Lighting
Vasco Wellenkamp

Music
Haendel (excerpts Messiah)

Costumes
Helena Lozano

Synopsis
Created by the Portuguese choreographer Vasco Wellenkamp, author of several works in the repertoire of the Cisne Negro Dance Company, this piece explores the music-dance binomial. The music of "Mystical Songs," with excerpts from Handel's "Messiah," is one of the most beautiful pieces in the repertoire of this genius of world classical music. Composed in 1741, its text was extracted from the Holy Scriptures, and the choreography follows this tradition, culminating in the "Hallelujah," whose impact and grandeur are translated by Handel's own words: "...I thought I saw the whole sky before me and the great God himself!".

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.