La Mer - Scapino Ballet Rotterdam - TIP TOE Soho International Dance Festival

Production by Scapino Ballet Rotterdam reinterpreting La Mer, the symphonic work by Claude Debussy, with choreography by Nanine Linning, voices, digital projections and the collaboration of designer Yuima Nakazato.

This dance production is based on La Mer, the symphonic work by Claude Debussy, and on Sirènes, from his Nocturnes. Director and choreographer Nanine Linning has conceived it as a multidisciplinary staging that combines dance, music, fashion and digital art, with the participation of haute couture designer Yuima Nakazato, soprano Barbara Hannigan, digital artist Heleen Blanken and composer Yannis Kyriakides.

The choreography has a highly expressive language and relies on voices of great intensity and on digital projections. Debussy's sirens, which here function as a symbol of human ambition to obtain ever faster and cheaper results, are reinterpreted through theatrical and symbolic resources. At the same time, the piece shows the beauty of virgin waters and the power of nature.

In contrast to the romantic, almost naive view of the sea reflected in Debussy's compositions, the choreography introduces images of environmental deterioration that generate an unsettling tension. The threats facing the oceans are alluded to subtly, without being represented literally. The show is part of the TIP TOE Soho International Dance Festival and is presented at the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank in Málaga.