Danza, Lucinda Childs: “with Wilson he challenges Stravinsky and Pulcinella”

She is one of the ladies of contemporary dance, American (born in 1940), absolute and hypnotic minimalism, measured and reiterated gesture, a never hidden passion for the academic word. Lucinda Childs is in Rome (until tomorrow at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and then on tour in Italy) with the show ‘Relative Clam’, an evening-event created in tandem with one of the greatest living directors, Bob Wilson which includes the reinterpretation of two choreographies by Lucinda Childs on music by John Adams and John Gibson respectively and a new creation, world premiere on the music of Igor Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, composed for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes. On stage 12 dancers from Michele Pogliani’s Mp3Dance Company and the PMC Ensemble directed by Tonino Battista. “For years I have been cherishing the idea of ​​being able to work on a composer who did not strictly belong to a tradition that is more familiar to me,” said Lucinda Childs, a partnership with Bob Wilson that dates back to 1974 with the show ‘Einstain on the beach’ . “A challenge for me is Stravinsky’s music. It is as if I had not been invited to a party, but had decided, anyway, to participate. And so I had to find a way to crash … Stravinsky – she added – offered me a great opportunity, to explore a musical universe partly unknown to me, but to be able to share ideas. Basically I confess that there is no lack of affinity with the music of John Adams and John Gibson “. Lucinda Childs does not hide the influence, especially on dance, of John Cage and Merce Cunningham in the 60s. “I sought with Bob Wilson, within ‘Relative Calm’, a dialogue with music – continued Lucinda Childs – In short, to have a musical composition in front of us and on that basis to create our work also very different from my original paths of choreographer and director. I have given more and more importance to form, to abstraction. ‘Pulcinella’ is a tale. Of anger, of betrayal, of romantic passion. A new challenge for me and Bob “.