Loner - Triptych

Repertory: Loner

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We are alone, we begin alone and are, by choice or circumstance, left alone.

This is the theme of Purcell’s opera Dido and Aneas, where the player’s fate is to be alone: Aneas pulled away from the woman he loves by his belief in duty and destiny; Dido resigned to her fate of dying alone. She is initially unwilling to admit her love but when she acknowledges Aneas, against intuition, she finds that he must leave. He, unwittingly tricked by the sorcerers who guard a deep hatred for Dido, finds that he must voyage to Italy.

Based on this mythological story and using the music of the opera of Henry Purcell, Loner is an observation of a group of individuals and their relations. Their struggle to be together despite jealousy, misunderstandings and obligations and their resulting isolation.

Ficha Artística

Duración 55´

Co-production: Endansa de La Generalitat de Catalunya
Thomas Noone Dance SCP

Thomas Noone Dance; Company in Residence in the Centro Coreográfico de la Comunidad Valenciana during the creation of Loner.

Thomas Noone Dance recieves the support of the Institut de Cultura, Ajuntament de Barcelona and the Departament de Cultura de La Generalitat de Catalunya.

Loner was created with the collaboration of the XV Certamen de Madrid.