Im siebten Himmel - Premiere - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Im siebten Himmel - Premiere

MARCH, WALTZ, POLKA
musical direction
Patrick Lange
composer
Johann Strauss (son)
Josef Strauss
Johann Strauss (father)
choreography
Martin Schläpfer
Stage and costumes
Susanne Bisovsky
light
Robert Eisenstein
PREMIERE
musical direction
Patrick Lange
composer
Gustav Mahler
choreography
Marco Goecke
Stage and costumes
Thomas Mika
light
Udo Haberland
dramaturgy
Nadja Kadel
SYMPHONY IN C
musical direction
Patrick Lange
composer
Georges Bizet
choreography
George Balanchine
Setting up and adapting the costumes
Stephanie Bäuerle
light
after Perry Silvey
Rehearsal
Patricia Neary

A dancer writes a longing in the room. It is a solo of flowing serenity, unfolding over those gentle waves of sound with which the famous "On the beautiful blue Danube" begins before it begins to turn into a waltz, repeatedly drawing strength into those nerve-tickling delays that are so are typical of music that, like no other, represents everything that one associates with »Vienna«. More dancers join in, discover the potential for a tango and the pointe shoe as a dangerous weapon in the failure of the metric heartbeat or throw themselves into the waltz ecstasy in order to slow them down again with a highly concentrated body tension. One loses her nerve, another gets shaking knees instead of strolling tightly in front of an imaginary general. Martin Schläpfer opens his state opera premiere with a new version of his ballet "Marsch, Walzer, Polka", created in 2006: With the "New Pizzicato Polka" op. 449 he integrates another number in the series of famous Strauss dances, but also gives the choreography a new design for which he was able to win Susanne Bisovsky, an artist who, with her experimental work, inspired by historical costumes, explores the boundaries between tradition and avant-garde in a congenial way.

Gustav Mahler was "in 7th heaven" when he was working on his 5th symphony. He was shown this by his great love and later wife Alma Schindler, to whom he then dedicated the Adagietto, which in turn inspired Marco Goecke to write a new piece for the Vienna State Ballet. The artist, initially associated with the Stuttgart Ballet, then also with the Nederlands Dans Theater and Gauthier Dance as resident choreographer, and has headed the State Ballet Hannover since 2019/20, is one of the most important contemporary choreographers. Many of his pieces literally get under your skin - shaped by the fluttering, trembling, tearing and vibrating so typical of his style of movement, which breaks from deep inside out and puts the dancer's body as if under high voltage.

With George Balanchine's “Symphony in C”, a ravishing homage to classical ballet closes the program. The work, created in 1947 for the Paris Ballet de L'Opéra under the title "Le Palais de cristal", breathes beautifully the spirit of the white nudes of the St. Petersburg School and transfers the ranks of the Parisian ensemble to the architectural structure: entirely from Georges Bizet's Youth Symphony is a sophisticated, sophisticated interplay between solos, pas de deux and large groups, which culminates in a splendid finale.

George Balanchine's “Symphony in C” takes place with the permission of © The School of American Ballet.

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