Andante


What you are about to see, hear and smell is a performance about slowing down and sensing. The word andante itself refers to a type of musical movement that is moderately slow or distinct. We think of the performance as both a celebration of – and antidote to – spectacle.

– Igor and Moreno

The performance of Andante includes a movement quotation from Stephen Paterson’s line dance “Andante Andante” (2015, http://bit.ly/andanteandante).

Andante is available under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Copyright Igor and Moreno (2017)

  • Directed by: Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas
  • Devised and Performed by:
    Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin, Eleanor Sikorski, Moreno Solinas and Igor Urzelai,
  • Dramaturge: Simon Ellis
  • Sound Composition: Alberto Ruiz Soler
  • Set and Costume Design: KASPERSOPHIE
  • Lighting Design: Seth Rook Williams
  • Nose: Alessandro Gualtieri
  • Voice Coach: Melanie Pappenheim
  • Producer: Sarah Maguire
  • Production Manager: Hannah Blamire
  • Co-produced by: Igor and Moreno, The Place and TIR Danza
  • Funded by: by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
  • Commissioned by: The Place, Cambridge Junction, DanceEast and DanceXchange.
  • Developed with The Lowry
  • Supported by: The London Community Foundation and Cockayne – Grants for the Arts, Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs Embassy of Spain (ES), En Knap (SI), Yorkshire Dance (UK), South East Dance (UK), Centro per La Scena Contemporanea (IT), NAVE (CL), British Council, Dansateliers (NL), Zürich TanzHaus (CH),  Extant,ResiDance XL (IT), CapoTrave/Kilowatt (IT), Roehampton University, Modern Dance Theatre (NL) and El Graner (ES).

  • Directed by: Igor Urzelai and Moreno Solinas
  • Devised and Performed by:
    Moreno Solinas, Mansoor Ali, Giorgia Ohanesian Nardin and Eleanor Sikorski
  • Dramaturge: Simon Ellis
  • Sound Composition: Alberto Ruiz Soler
  • Set and Costume Design: KASPERSOPHIE
  • Lighting Design: Seth Rook Williams
  • Voice Coach: Melanie Pappenheim
  • Photographer: Alicia Clark
  • Video Documentation: Stacie Lee Bennett
  • Production Manager: Ian Moore

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‘It takes skill and development to produce work of this richness and complexity from such unfussy
movement. […] The show is a meditation on time and attention; on observation and obscured perception. The overwhelming sense is that something is being communicated to you so fundamentally obvious and profound that it is almost impossible to comprehend what it is until and unless you just allow your consciousness to absorb it. […] Who knows how it may evolve, but it already feels like a significant piece of genre-shifting new dance.’

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(Peter Jacobs, Reviews Hub)

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‘one of the most simple – and in that simplicity, complex – and extraordinary shows I think I might ever have seen. […] There is such a direct line of thinking from Idiot-Syncrasy to A Room For All Our Tomorrows to Andante: a series of reflections on what it is to belong. […] In that simple, silly bouncing, Idiot-Syncrasy paid homage to the folk traditions of Igor and Moreno’s separate youths, the song and the dance; in Room they searched for new folk with whom to build new traditions. And Andante is a work of profound and painful nostalgia for everything you’ve had to step away from to do that.’

(Maddy Costa)

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‘For a work of such silence, absence and stillness, Andante remains deeply full throughout. […] It’s a hugely ambitious work; but this choreographic complexity is infused with, and ultimately grounded in, a palpable humility, boldness and nuance’

(Paul Hughes, Exeunt Magazine)

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‘a fascinating piece of conceptual art and one that unabashedly rejects the conventions of
dance.’

(dancetabs.com)

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‘a truly interesting experiment’

(The Guardian)

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‘In this time when words have been exploited way beyond their initial mean as mere communication tool (e.g. words as spears and shields, baits and deceptions, camouflage and masks, etc), Andante created a brief opening that brought one back to the beginning of everything. When everything was nothing. When nothing was nothing.’

(Shyh Jih Lee, Island Observatory)

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‘Sans début ni fin déterminés, Andante semble flotter dans un autre espace-temps. Si l’aspect relativement novateur (du moins original) de la démarche est appréciable, et l’expérience plutôt intéressante à vivre, certains spectateurs n’adhèrent pas du tout. De quoi s’interroger sur la nature de l’art en général, et du spectacle vivant en particulier.’

(Julie Jozwiak, Bachtrack)