PICTURESON STRAVINSKY
Gisela Rocha with Introdans

Gisela Rocha‘s production for the Dutch ballet company Introdans saw its premiere within the programme «StRAWINSKI SWINGT» in Arnhem/NL in 19 September 2008 – In 2006 Gisela Rocha became a ‘New Partner’ of Introdans. In collaboration with the Introdans dancers she created the world premiere Paradise ? in 2006. This ballet was a major success and she was invited to make a new work for the VUUR&VLAM programme in 2007, entitled Disclose. In 2008 the successful partnership between Introdans and Gisela Rocha is being continued with a world premiere in the STRAWINKSI SWINGT programme.

" ....Rocha erschafft eine faszinierende Welt verschwindender menschlicher Erfahrung."Pictures on Stravinsky" beginnt mit einer ominösen leuchtenden Konstruktion aus weissen Stühlen; eine unbehagliche Vermählung aus Installation und Klinischer Sterilität. Digitalisierte Ton-tröpfchen evozieren rastlose Spannung, während die Tänzer sich zögerlich den Stühlen nähern. Als Strawinskys drohende Streicher einsetzen, nehmen sie die Stuhlkonstruktion mit manischer Entschiedenheit auseinander. Jede mögliche Umbauvariante probieren sie aus, manipuileren die Stühle ihrer statischen Natur. Fasznierende Geometrie, in der der Stuhl wie eine eigenartige Last erscheint. Oder wie eine anatomische Anomalie. Bedeutung, noch wichtiger, Raumwahrnemung fluktuiren ständig.
.....Wie in Yeats` "The Second Coming": Turning and turning in the widening gyre/ The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/ Things fall part; the center cannot hold....
Die Apokalypse mag nah sein, Rochas Stück endet mit lyrischer Naivität. Eine Tänzerin hüpft duch einen Schauer von Rosenblütenblättern, den Blick gen Firmament. Ein Echovon Chaplins Tramp, der gegen alle Wahrscheinlichkeit in einer barbarischen Welt überlebt. Nur durch sein Lächeln. Wie flüchtig auch immer.

ballettanz, Machael Kroes

„The Brazilian choreographer Gisela Rocha has-luckily - not felt encumbered by the historical significance and in her „Pictures on Stravinsky“has taken a fresh and fruity approach to a number of composition (including the neo-classical, Bach-inspired Dumbarton Oaks). With a loose reference to the themes from stavinskys`s musical realization of the „Rite of Spring“, Rocha presents a sort of life cycle in a number associative parts. From a chair-based dance in which space needs to be determined both literally and figuratively, to a ménage à trois involving a woman and two men who, displaying and courting, moving around each other in a superbly inventive manner.
Rocha`s eclectic approach, from balletesque pirouttes to a lot of stick-to-me moves from contact improvisation, is powered chiefly by intuition. In her previous work I found Rocha’s imaginative universe, glued together by associations, to be unattractively vague. But now the focus on Stravinsky acts as a particle accelerator: Rochas`s expressive powered is released in a huge explosion.The finale, a catwalk procession of parading dancers, can be seen as a contemporary call for individuality and unpredictability.“
Trouw by Sander Hiskemuller

.....“ Rocha and Introdans are building up an impressive oeuvre
de Gelderlander

...nicely capricious.....Rocha`s movement idiom fits the music seamlessly, and the costume by the Arnhem designer Sebastian Kramer, equally stylish and crazy (bathing caps!), lso suit this idiom wonderfully.The subtle lighting plan- the illuminated chairs are lovely-and the spatial design complete the pictures.
de Gelderlander

The high point is a moving trio .
de Gelderlander

With Pictures on Stravinsky, Introdans has added a truly top-class work to its repertoire.
On Stage

Arnhem 20-09-2008
Zwolle 01-10-2008
Nijmegen 03-10-2008
Tiel 08-10-2008
Oss 09-10-2008
Doetinchem 10-10-2008
Zoetermeer 16-10-2008
Amstelveen 17-10-2008
Venlo 22-10-2008
Den Haag 24-10-2008
Bocholt (D) 31-10-2008
Waalwijk 01-11-2008
Nijmegen 04-11-2008
Arnhem 08-11-2008
Arnhem 09-11-2008
Emmen 11-11-2008
Eindhoven 12-11-2008
Roosendaal 21-11-2008
Deventer 27-11-2008
Winterswijk 28-11-2008
Leiden 30-11-2008
Apeldoorn 03-12-2008
Zutphen 04-12-2008
Capelle aan den IJssel 06-12-2008
Hengelo 10-12-2008
Emmeloord 12-12-2008
Gouda 13-01-2009
Nijverdal 17-01-2009
Amsterdam 20-01-2009
Uden 22-01-2009