SUNSET SORELL

choreographer: Jean-Claude Gallotta
music: Strigall
performed by : Sintija Kučić & Danijela Vukadinović
repetiteur: Silvia Bidegain
asistant: Irma Omerzo
sound designer: Miro Manojlović
Collaboration between Dance Department of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb and Coservatoire de Paris

Sunset Sorell is staged within Rendez-vous, festival of France in Croatia

Dance Department of the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb was established in 2013 as the only department in Croatia which offers a university degree in dance. With its seven theater and film departments, the Academy is an ideal environment for young dancers, since it encourages interdisciplinary studies, creative co-operations and networking. It supports one of the main Department goals – to offer its students of ballet pedagogy and contemporary dance an opportunity to work with the top Croatian and foreign experts in dance and other relevant fields, keeping their education up to date with the most recent artistic and pedagogical practices in Europe. This year's sophomore students of contemporary dance have collaborated with the Paris Conservatoire. The students prepared a duet by the famous French choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta, and the most successful performers got the chance to present it within the Festival.

Jean-Claude Gallotta, a representative of contemporary French dance, started his career in the late 1970s inspired by the work of Merce Cunningham, Steve Paxton, Trisha Brown, Lucinda Childs. In 1979 he founded his own company - Émile Dubois Group – in Grenoble, and has been working there since, as a part of Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble. His style is marked by the combination of classical and contemporary, abstract and playful, with the characteristic energy and drive.

Sunset sorell, the female version of the original duet Sunset Fratell from 2006, is an example of Gallotta's constant fascination with human relationships and stories which often have a pronounced emotional charge.
The voice off stage leads us into a story from Crime Chronicle: two young sisters ended their lives in a ditch by a highway...