CAFE NOCTURNE

Director and choreographer: Paras Terezakis

Dancers: Caroline Farquhar, Shauna Elton, Alvin Erasga Tolentino, Daelik Hackenbrook, Walter Kubanek

Lighting design: Jean-Philippe Trepanier

Music: Jeff Corness

Café Nocturne is part two of Terezakis' trilogy in which the Greek bon choreographer explores social behaviour. It is considered his strongest work in nearly a decade, charting the many temperatures of eroticism in which once again a human impulse is set loose and we watch its effects on different people. The animating spirit is a divine wind that blows up lust, predatory desire, aggression, flirtartion, envy, subjugation and surrender. There is some demure nudity, there is some spirited French kissing, but the real fire of the evening is more subtle. Terezakis contends that eroticism rules more human interactions than we like to admit. Café Nocturne is a pensive and philosophical tour in the solitary course of man searching for solutions, soul cleansing the quest to forget in the face of a transient lover.

Terezakis makes much of his Greek heritage here, employing the techniques of classical Greek theatre and the raspy. urgent quality of Greek music.