With Ilya Jivoy's Carmina Burana, danced by the LaFACT Dance Company from Terrassa, Catalonia, the second Innsbruck Winter Dance Festival had a real highlight — preceded by a delicious aperitif: Boléro by festival director Enrique Gasa Valga. Here, the choreographer showcases his humorously playful side for the first time, having his Limonada Company crawl along in diapers. Parallel to the crescendo of Ravel's music, the awkward babies grow into cheeky boys and girls and finally into mature dancers. A striking contrast to the following sixty minutes of Carmina Burana, which feel like a ritual high mass of rhythm, light, and color, culminating in a veritable apotheosis. With incredible precision, Jivoy translates Orff's rhythmically emphatic work into poetic body images, forming a magnetic round dance on the course of life, celebrating the return of spring and allowing longing and sensuality to blossom and fade in meticulously neoclassical Pas de deux. There was something almost magical about the way his movement impulses meandered across the bodies into space, and how bodily buds opened into blossoms.
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