Dionysian spirit Béjart
Halil Bárcena
Catalan lovers of the great Maurice Béjart (1927-2007) have been lucky. And, in recent months, the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, his artistic legacy alive, has appeared twice on stage Catalans. Last July, they did as part of the Peralada Festival, and on 19 and 20 of this month of March in the auditorium of Sant Cugat. The program consisted of the choreography Dionysos (suite), Béjart's own creation; Songs of Herself, July Arozarena, and Syncope, Gil Roman, French teacher's right hand, his true artistic heir, and current director of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne.
the program presented by the pupils of Béjart, I stay, without hesitation, with the first choreography, Dionysos (suite), released in 1985 , which incorporates some of the main reasons for Dionysos, one of the masterpieces of Béjart, made public a year ago and then danced a stellar Gil Roman. And no less ebullient star and shown in Sant Cugat Colombian Oscar Chacón, in the role of Dionysos. All his movements, each of its steps and gestures were simply touching, poignant and believable, and his absolute naturalness, which is what, exactly, did your body convey truth. However, one must think that truth can not show any expression without having body completely destroyed the old and obsolete, which in our body are automatically acquired over time that prevent us from living life as perpetual creation is renewed every moment. The dance, I said the Persian poet Mawlana Rumi (d. 1273), master of dervishes, is a road that leads to knowledge of the divine, and every path must start a tree regardless of conversion Tawba in the technical language of the Sufis, who has some investment will apparently negative.
One of the most exciting and powerful Dionysos (suite) -and throughout the evening, were the Dionysian dithyrambs danced in the final the choreography. Today, they dance, mostly, it has become captive to the technical precision and, therefore, a certain coldness stage, emotionally neutral, it is heartwarming to see the overflowing passion of these dancers, it exploded communicative power and magic of manhood, so characteristic of the best Béjart. And, as claimed by the choreographer himself, the dance is done before anything magic gesture. So, dance is to speak the language of animals, communicating with stones, to understand the sound of ocean waves or the wind blowing, the stars shine. In short, to dance is to be one with existence, something I never understood who was in itself an undue importance.
