Premiere US Premiere
Country of Origin France
Description A choreographer known for technically dazzling, uncompromisingly modern works that defy easy categorization, Angelin Preljocaj returns to BAM with the U.S. premiere of Near Life Experience. Set to an original composition by the French electro pop duo Air (known for their music for Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, and this year's achingly beautfiul album, Talkie Walkie), this full-evening work evolves from the inside out, exploring how an instant of abandon -- a fainting spell, an ecstatic moment, a trance, an orgasm -- offers the opportunity for both intense bodily sensation and detachment. Through their virtuosic, precisely rendered movements, nine performers travel a delicate line veering from tense, physical contact to spiritual, body-abandoning sensations. As imagined by Preljocaj, it's a kind of magic in which corporeal realities give way to the transcendent.
Identifier 2004f.00035
