Ballet: Promethean Fire - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballet: Promethean Fire
Ballets by Paul Taylor, Martin Schläpfer, Mark Morris
With the premiere of Promethean Fire, the Vienna State Ballet is presenting two outstanding artists of American Modern Dance for the first time in the Volksoper: Paul Taylor and Mark Morris. Her choreographies are located on the outer edges of the Prometheus motif - between hubris and humanity, catastrophe and beauty, creation and transience.
Prometheus formed a human being out of clay and brought fire and thus civilization to mankind. For his rebellion against Zeus, the father of the gods, he had to pay with terrible torment – tied to a rock where an eagle regularly ate his liver. Prometheus is a symbolic figure for liberation from ignorance and oppression, as "the one who thinks ahead" stands for progress, but also for the dominion over nature and last but not least for the megalomania of the godlike behaving human beings.
Paul Taylor's Promethean Fire is said to have been created as a direct response to the Nine-Eleven attacks. Even though the choreographer later withdrew this concrete association, there is still a catastrophic mood in the room: conflicts break out, emotions collide – in the end, however, hope triumphs in this moving dance drama.
Mark Morris, on the other hand, brings nine beaux to the stage with his wonderful sense of humor: handsome men, real guys, but also buddies, cavaliers and innocent angels. At the same time, Beaux is also a demanding, lucid “making music with the body” in its lightness.
Ballet director Martin Schläpfer responds to the strong Modern Dance language of the two Americans with two miniatures: subtle movement studies, glowing in fine colors, dances like “the powder on the butterfly wings”.
Subject to change.
With the premiere of Promethean Fire, the Vienna State Ballet is presenting two outstanding artists of American Modern Dance for the first time in the Volksoper: Paul Taylor and Mark Morris. Her choreographies are located on the outer edges of the Prometheus motif - between hubris and humanity, catastrophe and beauty, creation and transience.
Prometheus formed a human being out of clay and brought fire and thus civilization to mankind. For his rebellion against Zeus, the father of the gods, he had to pay with terrible torment – tied to a rock where an eagle regularly ate his liver. Prometheus is a symbolic figure for liberation from ignorance and oppression, as "the one who thinks ahead" stands for progress, but also for the dominion over nature and last but not least for the megalomania of the godlike behaving human beings.
Paul Taylor's Promethean Fire is said to have been created as a direct response to the Nine-Eleven attacks. Even though the choreographer later withdrew this concrete association, there is still a catastrophic mood in the room: conflicts break out, emotions collide – in the end, however, hope triumphs in this moving dance drama.
Mark Morris, on the other hand, brings nine beaux to the stage with his wonderful sense of humor: handsome men, real guys, but also buddies, cavaliers and innocent angels. At the same time, Beaux is also a demanding, lucid “making music with the body” in its lightness.
Ballet director Martin Schläpfer responds to the strong Modern Dance language of the two Americans with two miniatures: subtle movement studies, glowing in fine colors, dances like “the powder on the butterfly wings”.
Subject to change.
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