León & Lightfoot present an evening in the intimate setting of Takkelloftet, featuring nine brilliant dancers and award-winning danish musicians.

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The evening will consist of Paul Lightfoot’s Suffer Little Children (2023), the world premiere of Sol León’s Serendipia (2025), as well as new work created by both artists specifically for this evening's program. We are immensely proud to present León & Lightfoot's Stay Tuned. 

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We invite you to join us for this intimate and unforgettable experience!

 

Words from the choreographers:

“Art throughout the ages often alights upon the subject of a child’s sickness or sufferance.

In May 24 2022, the US witnessed its 24th school shooting of that year in Uvalde Texas.

This tragic event of helpless innocence confronting malignant evil tormented me. 

As a father it haunted me to envision that reality were it my own daughter. 

This was the challenging inspiration point the choreography began from. 

This ballet doesn’t presume to heal any of these wounds… It is a human study in dance against this cruelty. An homage of sorrow and joy about the deprivation of innocent purity, alongside the beauty of the youth we have had the blessing to fulfil ourselves; to attempt to find light and even poetic solace within this dark subject.”

- Paul Lightfoot

 

"Only with enormous subtlety could I say what this creation will be.

But even so, I could never be certain; if a mother had to tell the future story of her child’s life to someone, would she be able to point to this or that specific moment?  

The beauty of the unknown lies open to us. I could not possibly tell the colour or shape of this ballet yet. I am still sensing it inside.

However, I can already express the foundation of beautiful inspiration that gave me the original push to begin creating part of this celebration. Yes, it is a celebration of being together, infused with a unique level of technique, experience, and the commitment to dancing towards beauty and the perfection of emotions; the subtleties of being, respecting and learning from one another and our distinct, different realities.

My realisation is one pertaining to this specific time in which we are living, the fascinating awareness of what it is to be reunited, the studio time, and the moments of concentration together between humans with an exceptional sensibility and longing (reaching?) in their hearts. 

Dancers and musicians sharing a common goal. Art today is the breath and dynamics of our experiences and dreams. When we dance together we create. We shape our dreams together. We understand that subtlety is that threat of love which our planet polluted by the noise of power struggles is lacking.

The moment we begin to listen and achieve our full potential in the studio, creation thrives.

It is in that precise moment that I wish to be impregnated into the very fibres of the ballet.

What will this become?

In my father’s words: Será lo que será.

But for me, it is already the first step of a mature love from my side.”

– Sol León

 

 

Choreography: Sol León & Paul Lightfoot

Dancers: Chloe Albaret, Mikaela Kelly, Keren Leiman, Olga Smirnova, Auguste Palayer, Jorge Nozal, Roger van der Poel, Toon Lobach & Sebastian Pico Haynes

Musicians: Alexander McKenzie, Jacob la Cour, Niklas Walentin & Andreas Bernitt

Lightdesign: Sol León & Paul Lightfoot 

Lightoperators: Jolanda de Kleine & Frederik Skålerud Hougs

Costumedesign: Sol León & Paul Lightfoot 

Costumerealisation: Joke Visser

Wardrobe master: Søren Johannessen

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