Passacaglia

1992

TECHNICAL DATA

Choreography
Vasco Wellenkamp


Synopsis
Passacaglia com música de Weber, foi uma remontagem do coreógrafo português, Vasco Wellenkamp, que presenteou a companhia em 1992.  A obra originalmente foi um duo criado para o Ballet Gulbenkian, companhia fundada em Lisboa, Portugal em 1975 e teve suas atividades encerradas em 2005.

Year of debut
1992

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.