SCARBO

SCARBO shows that it is possible to face traumatic memories without succumbing to them. The title refers to a poem by the romantic prose poet Aloysius Bertrand, which tells of a personal tormentor who keeps the first-person narrator company on waking nights.

To melancholic piano melodies by French composers Ravel and Debussy, played by Italian pianist Gabriele Carcano in lively interaction with the dance, Parent confronts her inner demons. One moment, she seems happily absorbed in merging with the music, while the next moment, exhaustion forces her to the ground.
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The internationally acclaimed solo is choreographed by Ioannis Mandafounis, the new artistic director of the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company. The Athenian-born dancer, who danced with the William Forsythe Company from 2005 to 2009 and went on to have an internationally successful career as a choreographer, developed a widely admired method of combining personal spontaneity with technical dance virtuosity.

'SCARBO allows its dancer to share it within the framework of an aesthetic experience with an audience who may not have expected such violent revelations but is touched and, in the end, reacts enthusiastically.' - Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung