The Colon Theater once again challenges its own limits and confirms an increasingly visible trend, that of opening its historical setting to new aesthetics, languages and audiences. The next Monday, May 11 at 8 p.m., the Main Room You will receive a unique experience. The projection of “Blade Runner”, Ridley Scott’s masterpiecewith a live performance of the famous music composed by Vangelis. The meeting, framed in the Contemporary Columbus cycle, proposes a cross between cult cinema, symphonic electronics and high performing tradition.
The 2007 Final Cut version will be shown, considered the definitive edition of the film originally released in 1982. While the images travel through that futuristic, dark and rainy Los Angeles imagined by Scott, the NEXUS-7 ensemble will perform live one of the most influential soundtracks in the history of cinema. Oscar-winning score by Vangelis and central figure of 20th century electronic music, redefined the link between sound and image, and turned the film into an unrepeatable sensory experience.
Dance label. For the occasion, NEXUS-7 was specially formed by Ernesto and Lucas Romeo, members of Klauss, along with percussionists Bruno Lo Bianco and Oscar Albrieu, as well as musicians from the local experimental scene. Electric strings, synthesizers, keyboards, electronic drums, sax, voice and percussion will recreate live those hypnotic atmospheres that marked entire generations of spectators.
Loosely based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick, “Blade Runner” eventually became much more than a neo-noir thriller. Starring Harrison Ford and Sean Young, the film anticipated today’s central debates such as artificial intelligence, human identity, implanted memory and the increasingly blurred border between man and machine. Four decades later, its philosophical power remains intact.
The “Blade Runner LIVE” version had its premiere at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2019 and since then he toured international stages with an enthusiastic reception from the public and critics. Its arrival at the Colón represents another step in the artistic expansion of Buenos Aires theater, which in recent years has incorporated audiovisual and contemporary proposals without sacrificing excellence.
Five days before, on Wednesday, May 6 at 8:30 p.m., the Experimentation Center of the Teatro Colón will offer an ideal prologue. In the first edition of CET. Sessions, Klauss will present “Replicantes”, a tribute to Vangelis and the sound universe of “Blade Runner”. The cult group made up of Ernesto Romeo, Lucas Romeo and Pablo Gil, along with guests such as Mario Siperman, Gabriela Areal, Árwy, Guillermo Costa and Franco Nicosia, will revisit themes and climates of an album that continues to dialogue with the present.
Thus, for a week, the Colón will become a door to the future imagined by cinema. Between centuries-old columns and cutting-edge sound technology, Buenos Aires will be able to hear what the future still sounds like.
