Kontrapunkte - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Kontrapunkte

Ballets by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker,
Merce Cunningham, Hans van Manen

The search for a male movement vocabulary challenges 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 to create her choreography »Great Fugue«, with which the Vienna State Ballet presented a work by the important Belgian dance artist for the first time. With her regular appearances at Impulstanz and most recently at the Wiener Festwochen, she is by no means unknown in Vienna.

But Merce Cunningham also brings a new color to the repertoire – the American visionary who once shook up the dance world with his experiments and has long been one of the classics. In his »Duets« from 1979/80 he lets twelve dancers exhaust the possibilities of couple dancing and counterpoints his own language of movement with typical forms of ballet. The musical basis of this extremely humorous piece is John Cage's "Improvisation III" - an electronic manipulation of 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 a man's emotional states – his desires, fears and passions, which are repeatedly thwarted by a group of five couples – like shadows from another world. "Four Schumann Pieces" is an elegant ballet in the clear language of movement and structures in space so typical of Hans van Manen, but they are also a ballet full of romance and melancholy.

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