Octavia (2003)

Full length evening performance on hands and stutter, paper and text, feet, shoes, point shoes, martial arts, exuberant abundance (overflow) and melancholia to music by J.S. Bach and John Cage.

8 dancers, a room made of transparency, nothingness and electronic soundscape, Cristina Caprioli works with stylistic diversions within rigid structural thinking.

choreography Cristina Caprioli
music Johan Sebastian Bach: Fughetta BWV 899, Partita nr 6 BWV 830: gigue, allemande, courante, air, sarabande interpreted by Glenn Gould, John Cage: Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (version for three toy pianos) first recording interpreted by Joshua Pierce, Marilyn Crispell & Joe Kubera, Jean-Louis Huhta: In, Betwixt, Cirkit
lights Emma Westerberg
dancers Tomas Caley, Katarina Eriksson, Johanna Klint, Jukka Korpi, Petter Jacobsson, Jennie Lindström, Henrik Vikman
apprentices Ylva Sunesson, Mariette Annergren, Måns Boll
producers Carina Norée, Birgitta Ebler
above photo by Anna Diehl

text fragments
Pille Repmakar’n & G. Romare: Knop, Stek & Splits, ICA Bokförlag
Michael Foucault: Diskursens ordning, trans. Mats Rosengren, Brutus Östling Bokförlag
Francesco Alberoni & Salvatore Veca: Moral och kärlek, trans. Cecilia Carmén and Katarina Nyström, Bokförlaget Korpen
Leonardo da Vinci: vatten och vind, trans. Astrid Hjort, Bokförlaget Skarabé
Ida Börjel: [varför vi går i cirkel när vi är vilsna], Glänta nr 3-4 -02

premiered March 12 2003 at Stora Scenen, Dansens Hus Stockholm