About I Cannot Love Without Trembling
Choreographer Bobbi Jene Smith became known to a wider audience when she was featured in the documentary Bobbi Jene in 2017. The film won several awards, including Best Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival. Together with Or Schraiber, she has created works for, among others, the Paris Opera and the Royal Ballet in Copenhagen.
With GöteborgsOperans Danskompani, they want to depict the relentless force that drives humans to, despite their fragility, fight to keep hope alive. Humans do what they can to avoid becoming numb, to continue opening themselves to life.
Conductor Nathan Brock conducts the Göteborg Opera's Orchestra. The viola concerto that gave the dance work its title is composed by Cassandra Miller.
“For the first fifteen minutes, we dance in silence. It is just us and the audience. The silence amplifies even the smallest shift, the smallest gesture, making the space itself breathe. We hear each other’s and the audience’s breath, feel the room’s vibration. In the silence, everything is heightened—every movement, every microscopic shift in energy.”
— Auguste Palayer, dancer
Team
CONDUCTOR Nathan Brock
CHOREOGRAPHY, COSTUME DESIGN Bobbi Jene Smith, Or Schraiber
MUSIC Cassandra Miller. Performed by arranagement with Faber Music, London.
SET & COSTUME DESIGN Christian Friedländer
DRAMATURGE Marie Haugsted Mors
LIGHTING DESIGN David Stokholm
Information
Dancers: 10
Running time: 45 minutes
World premiere: 3 April 2025, Göteborg Opera Main Stage
