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Kontrapunkte
The search for a masculine movement vocabulary questions the laws of gravity in a breathtaking way. In 1992, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker was inspired by the inventive counterpoint in Beethoven's string quartet op. 133 for her choreography "Große Fuge", with which the Vienna State Ballet presented a work by the important Belgian dance artist for the first time. This is by no means unknown in Vienna with its regular appearances at Impulstanz and, most recently, at the Wiener Festwochen.
Merce Cunningham - the American visionary who once shook up the dance world with his experiments and has long since become one of the classics - has also brought a new color to the repertoire. In his »Duets« from 1979/80 he lets twelve dancers exhaust the possibilities of pair dancing and counterpoints his own movement language with typical forms of ballet. The musical basis of this extremely humorous piece is John Cage's "Improvisation III" - an electronic manipulation of a drumming by Irish drummers Peadar and Mel Mercier.
A modern classic is Hans van Manen, who will celebrate his 90th birthday in July 2022. In his "Four Schumann Pieces", created in 1975 for the Royal Ballet London, we witness the emotional states of a man - his desires, fears and passions, which are repeatedly thwarted by a group of five couples - like shadows from another world. "Four Schumann Pieces" are an elegant ballet in the clear language of movement and spatial structures that are so typical of Hans van Manen, but they are also a ballet full of romance and melancholy.
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Merce Cunningham - the American visionary who once shook up the dance world with his experiments and has long since become one of the classics - has also brought a new color to the repertoire. In his »Duets« from 1979/80 he lets twelve dancers exhaust the possibilities of pair dancing and counterpoints his own movement language with typical forms of ballet. The musical basis of this extremely humorous piece is John Cage's "Improvisation III" - an electronic manipulation of a drumming by Irish drummers Peadar and Mel Mercier.
A modern classic is Hans van Manen, who will celebrate his 90th birthday in July 2022. In his "Four Schumann Pieces", created in 1975 for the Royal Ballet London, we witness the emotional states of a man - his desires, fears and passions, which are repeatedly thwarted by a group of five couples - like shadows from another world. "Four Schumann Pieces" are an elegant ballet in the clear language of movement and spatial structures that are so typical of Hans van Manen, but they are also a ballet full of romance and melancholy.
Subject to changes.
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