• 2011 ¬
  • I'VE SEEN IT ALL
• 2010 ¬
  • ANOTHER YOU
  • THE PARALLAX VIEW
  • ORLANDO – updated
• 2009 ¬
  • ORLANDO – scrapped
• 2008 ¬
  • KILLER LOOP
  • DATING YOUR ENEMY
• 2007 ¬
  • REAL-LIES - cosìfantutte
• 2006 ¬
  • D#FUNCTION
  • EDITIONS OF YOU
• 2005 ¬
  • LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS
  • FOOL FOR YOU
  • WHAT THINK EYE
• 2004 ¬
  • COVER ME
  • WAIT TO BE SEATED
• 2003 ¬
  • I'LL BE YOUR MIRROR
  • YOU'RE DEAD WITHOUT A STORY
• 2002 ¬
  • STANDBY (ME)
• 2001 ¬
  • SILENT RUNNING
• 2000 ¬
  • JIGABOO

// Produktionen

JIGABOO - Fight for your right to be white

Création: 9.06.2000, Theater im Ballsaal, Bonn.

Soutenu par: Fondation pour les Arts et la Culture en NRW // Le ministère de la Culture de la ville de Bonn et le Fonds pour les Arts scéniques e.V.

Chorégraphie et Danse: Rafaële Giovanola, Marcelo de Melo /// Décors: Frank Chamier /// Lumières: Marc Brodeur /// Collage Musical: Stephan Mauel /// Costumes: Adelheid Pohlmann /// Conseillère chorégraphique et régie: Antoinette Laurent /// Concept et mise en scène: Rainald Endraß

- 2 danseurs - dimensions minimales du plateau: 10 m x 10 m - durée: 1 h

JIGABOO - FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHT TO BE WHITE is an hour-long pas de deux about encounters with strangers. This dance project is based on a story by Afro-American author Darius James, called ´Negrophobia´, a literary experiment, a tough, provocative journey into the iconography of pop- American culture, a potent digression into racism. -->

// Press reviews

"JIGABOO is captivating in its clever use of the multidimensional. As a departure from ritual forms of encounters this `classical´ pas de deux employs the popular dance forms of youth, i.e., hip-hop, techno, and disco. Wonderful unornamented dancerly expression, accented with suggestive musical collages." (Jürgen Bieler, Bonner Rundschau, 13.06.2002)

"In this dance piece Rafaële Giovanola and Marcelo de Melo allow equal space in depicting the anxiety and attraction, fear and fascination which the unfamiliar provokes. Audiences in Bonn were impressed by the dancers´ physical control." (Susanne Haase-Mühlbauer, General-Anzeiger, Bonn, 13.06.2002)

// Press reviews Festival Off in Avignon

"Totally incredible! A William Forsythe dancer performing with a Pina Bausch dancer. The result is a completely freaked out duo. It is about a teenage blond´s dream, with a black man as the main character. Fantastic sequences leading into another. A delicate subject that met the challenge in an outstanding performance." (Philippe Verrièle, Les Saisons de la Danse, Octobre 2000)

"... brilliant work" (Benjamin Chaix, Tribune de Genève, 11. Juli 2000)

"A magical pas de deux." (Jean-Michel Gautier, La Marseillaise, 23. Juli 2000)

"... brutal and intense ..." (rel), (Le Dauphiné libéré - Vaucluse matin)