Ballet: Les Sylphides - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballet: Les Sylphides
The premiere of Les Sylphides during the first Paris season of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1909, with Tamara Karsavina, Anna Pavlova, Alexandra Baldina and Vaslav Nijinsky as soloists, caused a sensation. Her choreographer, Michel Fokine, had created the first romantic "Ballet Blanc" to the music of Frédéric Chopin without a concrete plot. Dreamlike and full of poetry, he unfolds images of a young man who encounters wondrous sylphs in a mystical forest. With the extended version of the Chopiniana performed in St. Petersburg in 1907, Fokine succeeded in laying the foundation for a contemporary art of dance in the elfin magic of the romantic ballet.
Ensemble member Adi Hanan presented himself with such an impressive work in the Platform Choreography 2022/23 that Martin Schläpfer decided to entrust the Israeli artist with another world premiere for the Vienna State Ballet. In Eden, the young choreographer takes on one of the most famous biblical stories with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and confronts animalistic, wild ideas of paradise with the exploration of the loss of innocence and the awareness of man in his own body.
Uwe Scholz is one of the most important German choreographers and created a multifaceted oeuvre in his short tenure due to his early death at the age of only 45. The choreographies of the sensitive visionary have one thing in common: Scholz's homage to music. Dance and composition act in close cooperation and create their own ballet worlds in a common rhythm. Jeunehomme, choreographed for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 1986, is still considered one of the choreographer's most important creations. Timeless in the dance classics, the ballet to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major KV 271 shows images of devotion and doubt, closeness and distance and combines drama and lightness. In Vienna, for the first time since the premiere, the choreography can be seen with the stage and costume design by Karl Lagerfeld - a design that congenially captures the spirit of Mozart's time from the perspective of the contemporary couturier.
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Ensemble member Adi Hanan presented himself with such an impressive work in the Platform Choreography 2022/23 that Martin Schläpfer decided to entrust the Israeli artist with another world premiere for the Vienna State Ballet. In Eden, the young choreographer takes on one of the most famous biblical stories with Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden and confronts animalistic, wild ideas of paradise with the exploration of the loss of innocence and the awareness of man in his own body.
Uwe Scholz is one of the most important German choreographers and created a multifaceted oeuvre in his short tenure due to his early death at the age of only 45. The choreographies of the sensitive visionary have one thing in common: Scholz's homage to music. Dance and composition act in close cooperation and create their own ballet worlds in a common rhythm. Jeunehomme, choreographed for Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 1986, is still considered one of the choreographer's most important creations. Timeless in the dance classics, the ballet to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major KV 271 shows images of devotion and doubt, closeness and distance and combines drama and lightness. In Vienna, for the first time since the premiere, the choreography can be seen with the stage and costume design by Karl Lagerfeld - a design that congenially captures the spirit of Mozart's time from the perspective of the contemporary couturier.
Subject to change.
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