• Passacaglia

    TECHNICAL SHEET Choreography: Vasco Wellenkamp Synopsis: Passacaglia, with music by Weber, was a restaging by the Portuguese choreographer Vasco Wellenkamp, who gifted it to the company in 1992. The work was originally a duo created for the Gulbenkian Ballet, a company founded in Lisbon, Portugal in 1975 and whose activities ended in 2005. Year of premiere: 1992

  • Mystic Songs

    TECHNICAL SHEET Choreography/Set Design and Lighting Vasco Wellenkamp Music Handel (excerpts from Messiah) Costumes Helena Lozano Synopsis Created by the Portuguese choreographer Vasco Wellenkamp, author of several works in the repertoire of 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 this choreographer's repertoire…

  • You knew

    TECHNICAL SHEET Choreography: Vasco Wellenkamp Music: Tom Jobim / Chico Buarque de Holanda Musical Arrangement: André Mehmari Musical Performance: André Mehmari (Piano) and Luca Raele (Clarinet) Synopsis: “The swing” of Brazilian music, in a ballet of great lyricism! Sabiá was a gift from the Portuguese choreographer, Vasco Wellenkamp, to the company's repertoire, staged at its premiere by the icon of Brazilian dance…

  • Keep Going

    TECHNICAL SHEET Choreography: Vasco Wellenkamp Synopsis: Wellenkamp inaugurates a fruitful partnership with Cisne Negro through Keep Going, one of the company's greatest successes, where the flow of dance is taken to extremes, both bodily and spatially. Set to music by Luciano Berio, the proposal is the continuous chaining of movements that follow one another. The cast performed…