no.thing

Choreography: Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo
Premières : Théâtre de l’Octogone 28/29/30/31 octobre 2009
A coproduction : Compagnie linga, Théâtre de l’Octogone
Dancers : Gérald Durand, David Gernez, Ai Koyama, Hyekyoung Kim, Philippe Lehbar, Marie Urvoy
Lights: Bert De Raeymaecker

The contemporary dance company linga presents no.thing, new creation (2009) for six dancers. Choreographers Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo started with a questioning: Can the authenticity of a gesture still provoke an emotion at the era of superficial physical performances? This creation focalizes on dance itself and its relationships with music. It proposes a physical dance, tender and powerful, inherent to the style of the company.
Compagnie linga and its choreographers Katarzyna Gdaniec and Marco Cantalupo are associated artists of the Théâtre de l'Octogone of Pully/Lausanne (CH) where they are in residence since 1993. The company’s choreographic process has progressively given rise to a vocabulary in tune with political and social issues: exploring through dance social phenomena while questioning the repercussions on the body of social situations. Linga has become an artistic entity whose talent is recognized and is invited to the most important events on the international scene.
Katarzyna Gdaniec – choreographer was born in Poland. From the age of 8 she dedicated herself to artistic gymnastics and won the Artistic Gymnastics European Junior Championships in 1974. She then studied at the National Ballet School in Gdansk, where she graduated. In 1983 she won the 1st prize at the Gdansk National Dance Competition, which enabled her to participate in the Prix de Lausanne and to obtain a Johnson Foundation Prize. In 1985 she entered Maurice Béjart’s Ballet du XX Siècle and remained with the company as principal dancer until 1991. Katarzyna Gdaniec has been a choreographer since 1987. She created her first works for the “Young Choreographers” workshop organised by the Ballet du XX Siècle. As
of 1992 she devotes herself entirely to choreography, having left the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and founded, with Marco Cantalupo, compagnie linga, for which she has co-authored over forty choreographies.
Marco Cantalupo – choreographer, was born in Genova, Italy. He studied at the Scala in Milan ballet school
followed by the Hamburg Opera ballet school, where he graduated. Several stays in the U.S.A. gave him the opportunity to work with the choreographer Daniel Ezralow (Momix, ISO). He danced with the Hamburg Opera, and then as a soloist with the Staatstheater Gelsenkirchen, the National Ballet of Portugal, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the Stadttheater Bern and the Béjart Ballet Lausanne. He choreographed for a number of independent projects in Italy before founding Linga with Katarzyna Gdaniec