Melomania: Bojan Čičić (solo violin); Stéphanie Brochard (solo dance)

a thrilling musical discovery
Classical Music Daily

enviously spontaneous and carefree
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melos = music | mania = madness
Melomania is neither a dance performance nor a concert but a danced concert that embodies an intense passion for music, awakening the senses. In this performance, two artists express their shared folie for music—one through sound, the other through movement—creating a visceral dialogue where music and dance become inseparable. The festival has commissioned this as a choreography ‘in the round’. Prepare yourself to become part of an intimate, powerful, fragile, daring performance.

Programme :

Friedrich Wilhelm Rust: Partita for violon Solo in D minor
Jean Sebastian Bach: sonata No2 for violon solo A minor BWV 1003
Sally Beamish: Intrada e Fuga for violon solo

Stéphanie Brochard moves between contemporary and early dance, building bridges between these dance forms. Trained in France and Canada, she enriches her practice with a theatrical approach to movement, influenced by her time at the Jacques Lecoq School in Paris.

Croatian-born, internationally-renown violinist Bojan Čičić has established himself as one of the leading names on the early music scene, as both a soloist and music director. He is a Professor of Baroque Violin at the Royal College of Music.