Edouard Lock 11th Floor

Cullberg ballet presents 11th floor by edouard lock music by gavin bryars published by schott music ltd.

Edouard lock 11th floor.

Most dancers have an affinity with music and many would like to play to professional standards. With music written specially by gavin bryars and costumes by ulrika van gelder 11th floor is an elegant and. Renowned choreographer edouard lock creates 11th floor directly for cullberg ballet. In tones bones by sweden s stina nyberg cullberg ballet took the plunge and became both orchestra and dancers.

Over the years mr. Lock has been invited to create works for some of the world s leading dance companies including the paris opera ballet the het nationale ballet of holland the nederlands dans theater the. This is another of the works that i have done with edouard lock that takes musical imagery from other sources and translate them into new work. 11th floor proved a winning fusion of dance music and concept.

Duration approximately 50 minutesrenowned choreographer edouard lock creates 11th floor directly for cullberg ballet. The work is inspired by jazz and film noir of the 1950 s and focuses on an unspoken crime of passion unstable relations and repressed tensions. In this case the music was selected from many recordings of music used for film noire movies which i re wrote for a quartet comprising accordion bass piano and tenor sax bass clarinet. La la la human steps founder artistic director and choreographer édouard lock began his choreographic career at the age of 20 and founded la la la human steps in 1980.

This is my fourth collaboration with the canadian choreographer édouard lock.