DESCRIPTION:
Monica Germino's first collaboration with choreographer Nanine Linning was in SUITES OF LUX. Commissioned by Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, Jacob ter Veldhuis composed a new work for electric violin and soundtrack. Together with ten dancers from Scapino Ballet Rotterdam; Monica Germino performed this 40-minute work from memory, while moving on stage amidst the dancers.

Choreography: NANINE LINNING
Music: JACOB ter VELDHUIS (performed live);
MONICA GERMINO, electric violin

THE PRESS:
TROUW (The Netherlands):
'As a magical central point, violinist Monica Germino leads the spectator through the choreography... Germino's presence is inescapable. Her electric violin sounds are truly bewitching.'

DE TELEGRAAF (The Netherlands):
'Jacob ter Veldhuis composed a solo for Monica Germino, who drew long, plaintive tones and piercing outbursts from her powerfully amplified electric violin, alongside
a soundtrack of indefinable sounds...The violinist is the central figure on stage. She breathes life into the the dancers with her notes and summons the memories in them to wake. She leads, inspires, manipulates.'

DANCE EUROPE (UK):
"The violinist Monica Germino performed the music on stage with much passion, almost dancing her way through syncopated sections, and keeps drawing near to the dancers... At the close of the piece she ends up alone on stage, softly repeating the last notes of the music...."

ROTTERDAMS DAGBLAD (The Netherlands):
'Violinist Monica Germino performs Jacob ter Veldhuis' new score live and moves like an eleventh dancer through the group. The amplified electric violin music lures you into another world...' 'Dancers are lashed into action by violinist Monica Germino, who is always on stage. She [Germino] resembles a kind of snake charmer, but then not with a flute but rather with her electric violin...'
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"In 2001, Nanine Linning became the youngest house-choreographer in The Netherlands. In her years thus far with Scapino Ballet Rotterdam she has more than fulfilled her potential and exhibited her exceptional choreographical talent in a series of stunning dance pieces. Linning presented her first full evening with Scapino of her work, focusing on the theme: LIGHT. Light design has played an increasingly prominent role in her work. She uses lighting in an unconventional manner for the theater, making not only the light itself visible but also its source. Fashion, sculpture, design, architecture, and new media are also familiar sources of inspiration for Linning. Her dance style is spatial and pure: it concerns movement. She thus creates her own universe through the extraordinary way in which she works with light and space.

Linning searched for stillness and serenity in her new dance piece, her fifth large production with Scapino. In contrast to her monumental work THE NEON LOUNGE, SUITES OF LUX is magical and subtle. The light decor conjures up enchantment and the transparent sounds of the melodic music evoke a trance atmosphere. The Dutch composer Jacob terVeldhuis composed his new work for electric violin and soundtrack, performed live on stage by top violinist Monica Germino. Having worked together in previous productions, Linning and Ter Veldhuis once again formed a creative duo, assisted by costume designer Petra Finke."
-Scapino Ballet Rotterdam
http://www.naninelinning.nl