I recently spoke with Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato about his full-evening work, "Multiplicity: Forms of Silence and Emptiness," which makes its Kennedy Center debut with Madrid's Compania Nacional de Danza. It's a swan song of sorts: Duato is leaving the troupe at the end of this season and moving on to other choreographic endeavors.
"The piece loosely interprets Bach's life as it reinvents his musical choices through expansive, liquid movement. A corps of seated dancers becomes the instruments of an orchestra, stretching, bending, bowing, sweeping and literally playing their bodies. Duato reenvisions a cello solo as a duet for a seated dancer who bows across his partner's body."
The story appears in today's Weekend in The Washington Post.
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