Bach sonate e danzate - Vertical counterpoints

By Marco Augusto Chenevier
Production 2018-2019 / Cie Les 3 Plumes

with: Marco Augusto Chenevier (dancer) and Serena Costenaro (cello)
mentoring: Christina Towle
production: Cie Les 3 Plumes with the support of the Aosta Valley Region
residency supports: Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), CND – Centre national de la danse de Paris, Comune d’Arvier (AO/IT)
with the support of: Le Regard du Cygne
photographers: Albert Panzani, Ewa Gleisner & Elvio Caria

length: 45 min


Associated Artists at Le Safran – Scène conventionnée d’Amiens Métropole



The project, conceived in a unique and exclusive form for the occasion, interweaves the music of Johann Sebastian Bach with the dancing body of Marco Chenevier in a poetic ascent upward.

The mountain becomes a symbolic space of elevation, effort, challenge, and possibility.
Bach's fugues, preludes, and suites guide the body along a path made of breath, gravity, and ascent toward the summit: climbs and pauses, vertigo and suspension, where counterpoint becomes gesture and the landscape becomes part of a journey made of tension and harmony.

Through the words of writer and climber Erri De Luca, the mountain becomes a teacher, a possibility: "The mountain teaches humility and strength together. It reminds you that you are master of nothing, but it gives you the power to face what is greater than you."