"Brilliant Corners" is a choreographic playground for a group of nine dancers. It explores the ways in which structures emerge, and how a deep understanding of these processes allow an intense look into some of the most intriguing questions out there.
"Brilliant Corners" is the title of an album by Jazz musician Thelonious Monk released in 1957. Monk’s music appears in no way in the score of this piece, but many aspects of his music are very much present. I have always found in it endless inspiration for dance making, and although the piece contains no direct reference to this music, it shares with it a certain understanding regarding the process of transforming concrete artistic matter (sounds and musical composition / dancers, movement and choreography), into environments where both artists and audiences are offered a somewhat clearer glance at life.
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