Silvestergala - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Silvestergala
MARSCH, WALZER, POLKA Martin Schläpfer
ROMANZE Remus Şucheană
MÖNCHE UND NONNE Martin Schläpfer
THE CONCERT Jerome Robbins
MARSCH, WALZER, POLKA Martin Schläpfer
In “Marsch, Walzer, Polka” Martin Schläpfer achieves a sensitive and thrilling balance between euphoria and melancholy, grand feelings and burlesque comedy that is far removed from all the usual Opera Ball clichés. To the famous music of the Viennese Strauss dynasty dancers move in circles with imaginary partners, weigh themselves in the splits, listen dreamily while the violins in the orchestra “sob” most heavily, discover the sly hesitations of the tango in the waltz and that pointe shoes can be dangerous weapons. They meet like sleepwalkers drunk on a summer night and filled with unexpected tenderness, then lose their nerve and feel their knees shaking rather than filing past an imaginary General tall and polished.
ROMANZE Remus Şucheană
The second movement of Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor opus 11 inspired Remus Şucheană to create “Romanze” in 2017 for the two Ballett am Rhein soloists So-Yeon Kim and Eric White. Playing with the typical vocabulary of a romantic pas de deux in a uniquely individual way, what begins as a cautious and watchful encounter between a man and a woman escalates gradually into a dancing delirium full of lyricism, tenderness but also virtuosity.
MÖNCHE UND NONNE Martin Schläpfer
Martin Schläpfer’s trio “Mönche und Nonne”, created for the Tanzgala Osnabrück in 2016, is an homage to three of his dancer-muses: Marlúcia do Amaral, Marcos Menha and Alexandre Simões. To music from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and the song “Is this it?” by the Israeli musician Asaf Avidan he has created an expressive miniature about the contingency of beauty and pain, loneliness and recognition, discipline and passion in art and these three dancers who live for their art form with all their internal and external beauty.
THE CONCERT Jerome Robbins
The programme concludes with Jerome Robbins’ “The Concert” from the 1950s: one of the most humorous pieces in the history of dance. The New York choreographer was not only one of the leading greats of 20th century American ballet, he also brought a new and ground-breaking significance to dance in musicals with works such as ‘West Side Story’ and “Fiddler on the Roof”. In “The Concert” he places a grand piano on stage and has the company dance on as the audience arriving at a concert. What then follows is a hilarious succession of disasters, slapstick-like routines, but also a skilful game of the imagination revealing human desires and fantasies to Frédéric Chopin’s romantic piano music.
Subject to change.
ROMANZE Remus Şucheană
MÖNCHE UND NONNE Martin Schläpfer
THE CONCERT Jerome Robbins
MARSCH, WALZER, POLKA Martin Schläpfer
In “Marsch, Walzer, Polka” Martin Schläpfer achieves a sensitive and thrilling balance between euphoria and melancholy, grand feelings and burlesque comedy that is far removed from all the usual Opera Ball clichés. To the famous music of the Viennese Strauss dynasty dancers move in circles with imaginary partners, weigh themselves in the splits, listen dreamily while the violins in the orchestra “sob” most heavily, discover the sly hesitations of the tango in the waltz and that pointe shoes can be dangerous weapons. They meet like sleepwalkers drunk on a summer night and filled with unexpected tenderness, then lose their nerve and feel their knees shaking rather than filing past an imaginary General tall and polished.
ROMANZE Remus Şucheană
The second movement of Frédéric Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor opus 11 inspired Remus Şucheană to create “Romanze” in 2017 for the two Ballett am Rhein soloists So-Yeon Kim and Eric White. Playing with the typical vocabulary of a romantic pas de deux in a uniquely individual way, what begins as a cautious and watchful encounter between a man and a woman escalates gradually into a dancing delirium full of lyricism, tenderness but also virtuosity.
MÖNCHE UND NONNE Martin Schläpfer
Martin Schläpfer’s trio “Mönche und Nonne”, created for the Tanzgala Osnabrück in 2016, is an homage to three of his dancer-muses: Marlúcia do Amaral, Marcos Menha and Alexandre Simões. To music from Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and the song “Is this it?” by the Israeli musician Asaf Avidan he has created an expressive miniature about the contingency of beauty and pain, loneliness and recognition, discipline and passion in art and these three dancers who live for their art form with all their internal and external beauty.
THE CONCERT Jerome Robbins
The programme concludes with Jerome Robbins’ “The Concert” from the 1950s: one of the most humorous pieces in the history of dance. The New York choreographer was not only one of the leading greats of 20th century American ballet, he also brought a new and ground-breaking significance to dance in musicals with works such as ‘West Side Story’ and “Fiddler on the Roof”. In “The Concert” he places a grand piano on stage and has the company dance on as the audience arriving at a concert. What then follows is a hilarious succession of disasters, slapstick-like routines, but also a skilful game of the imagination revealing human desires and fantasies to Frédéric Chopin’s romantic piano music.
Subject to change.
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