fotos: tristán pérez-martín. mercat de les flors. july 2020
Nocturne Requiem—Videographic waste from a lockdown Video-diptych made out of the audition that opens the film All that jazz by Bob Fosse (1979) and the audition held at Mercat de les Flors in Barcelona to choose the cast of the show Nocturne Requiem by Pere Faura (2019). Nocturne Requiem dancers talk to the camera about the experience they remember from the audition that made them the final cast of Nocturne Requiem. Motivations, expectations, nerves, fatigue and many personal anecdotes. Gloria March and Montse Colomé danced together in the lockdown distance. One did it on a patio and the other on a terrace. One was playing Gwen Verdon, and the other Chita Rivera when they danced together in Chicago as Velma Kelly and Roxie Heart. The little prince attentively observes the song of a snake, which sinuously dances among dunes and plants in the middle of a desert. Among the branches and rocks of a great Swedish forest, there is no prince, neither big or little, who observes attentively the sinuous dance of someone who imitates the movement of a snake. This is not a Cabaret, it's a dance movie. This is not a stage, those are six rooms. They have not danced together. The screen puts them into unison. They are the lockdown background girls of Lisa Minelli. Bob Fosse versus Michael Jackson Bob Fosse versus Beyoncé.
Nocturne Requiem
Pere Faura
Gloria March, Montse Colomé, Roger Cabot, Anamaria Klajnescek, Júlia Irango, Raffaella Crapio, Alberto Alonso, Toni Viñals, Victor Pérez Armero and Pere Arquillué
Jordi Queralt
Pere Jou andi Aurora Bauzà
Sergi Faustino
Adriana Parra
Arnau Sala
Anna Serrano
Marc Angelet
Claudia SolWat
Neus Faura
Vicente Roldán
Sandra Casals / BLANC Produccions
Joan Gay
A co-production of:
Grec 2020 Festival de Barcelona – Institut de Cultura, Ajuntament de Barcelona
Mercat de les Flors
Plataforma Cultural La Diürna SL
July, 2020 - grec festival - mercat de les flors (BCN)
REQUIEM is the first word that appears in a pro defunctis or defunctorum mass, that is, a mass for the dead. A musical ceremony performed at a funeral as a memorial to a deceased that offers, through music, a point of light and spiritual comfort during the darkness of a grieving process. An ephemeral ritual that harmonizes the bridge between life and death and unites that community in which one of its members has gone from existing physically to existing in memory.
In this NOCTURNE REQUIEM, the different parts of the original liturgy of a requiem are replaced by scenes, songs and dances created from Bob Fosse's choreographic, social and personal universe, united by creating an in-disciplinary theatricality where movement, word, music and video dance together in a choreography for 10 performers and 2 live musicians. A ritualistic experience between legacy and parody, between humor and tenderness, to reflect on the beauty of death and transform the act of dying into a cabaret with lots of camp and glitter.
Bob Fosse filmed ALL THAT JAZZ in 1979, a kind of semi-autobiographical portrait about his life as an addict to drugs, sex and especially at work, and about his possible death. Taking this film as the main reference, but also all the rest of Bob Fosse's cinematographic legacy, the show is divided into three great acts as a symbol of the three great parts of a process of realization of a stage show: audition, creation and show. The history of de-function in any act of creation.
| date | place |
| 2021.February.12,13,14 |
Mercat de les flors. Barcelona |
| 2021.February.5,6,7 |
Mercat de les flors. Barcelona |
| 2020.July.7,8,9 | PREMIERE. Mercat de les flors. Festival Grec. Barcelona |
| 2020.January.30 | presentation project REQUIEM |
| 2019.July.5-7 | auditions 'Bye-Bye Life. Nocturne Requiem' |
| 2019.May.29 to 2019.June.16 |
auditions presentation 'Bye-Bye Life. Nocturne Requiem' |