The founding of the Nederlands Dans Theater in 1959 opened a new chapter in the history of ballet. Important modern dance stimuli continue to emanate from the Netherlands to this day. Martin Schläpfer has now combined three masterpieces from the repertoire of the Vienna State Ballet by the former directors of The Hague Company – Jiří Kylián, Hans van Manen as well as Sol León & Paul Lightfoot – into a programme that can be experienced at the Vienna State Ballet for the first time in this form.
»Skew-Whiff« puts no limits on the imagination when it comes to playfully trying out a wide range of movements: the outcome is a piece of wonderful fun by the choreographer duo Sol León & Paul Lightfoot. On the other hand, Hans van Manen’s »Adagio Hammerklavier«, a ballet set to Beethoven, is a sublime masterpiece in terms of its concentration and clarity: »Light as a feather and floating, a breeze, a dream of ballet«, writes the dance critic Jochen Schmidt. And Jiří Kylián created a key work of the 20th century with his »Symphony of Psalms«, based on Stravinsky’s composition of the same name. In his characteristically pacey, flowing language of movement, he unfurls a fascinating, spiritual architecture before our very eyes.
Cast
Skew-Whiff
- Choreographie, Bühnenbild und Kostüme
- Sol León
- Choreographie, Bühnenbild und Kostüme
- Paul Lightfoot
- Komponist
- Gioachino Rossini
- Lighting design
- Tom Bevoort
- Einstudierung
- Jorge Nozal
- Tänzerin
- Fiona McGee
- Tänzer 1
- Davide Dato
- Tänzer 2
- Denys Cherevychko
- Tänzer 3
- Masayu Kimoto
Adagio Hammerklavier
- Choreography
- Hans van Manen
- Komponist
- Ludwig van Beethoven
- Stage and costume design
- Jean-Paul Vroom
- Lighting design
- Jan Hofstra
- Einstudierung
- Kerstin Feig
- Klavier
- Shino Takizawa
- Pas de deux 1
- Maria Yakovleva
- Pas de deux 1
- Lourenço Ferreira
- Pas de deux 2
- Sonia Dvořák
- Pas de deux 2
- Roman Lazik
- Pas de deux 3
- Nina Poláková
- Pas de deux 3
- Marcos Menha
Symphony of Psalms
- Choreography
- Jiří Kylián
- Komponist
- Igor Strawinski
- Bühnenbild
- William Katz
- Costume design
- Joop Stokvis
- Lighting design
- Kees Tjebbes nach Jiří Kylián und Joop Caboort
- Technische Supervision Bühne und Kostüme
- Kees Tjebbes
- Einstudierung
- Patrick C. Delcroix
- 1.Paar
- Maria Yakovleva
- 1.Paar
- Roman Lazik
- 2.Paar
- Sveva Gargiulo
- 2.Paar
- Denys Cherevychko
- 3.Paar
- Rebecca Horner
- 3.Paar
- Géraud Wielick
- 4.Paar
- Claudine Schoch
- 4.Paar
- Marcos Menha
- 5.Paar
- Eszter Ledán
- 5.Paar
- Lourenço Ferreira
- 6.Paar
- Alexandra Inculet
- 6.Paar
- Giovanni Cusin
- 7.Paar
- Masha Tolstunova
- 7.Paar
- Andrés Garcia Torres
- 8.Paar
- Fiona McGee
- 8.Paar
- Gaetano Signorelli
