The search for a male movement vocabulary challenges the laws of gravity in a breath-taking way. The inventive counterpoint of Beethoven’s String Quartet op. 133 provided Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker with inspiration for her 1992 piece »Große Fuge«, with which the Vienna State Ballet presents work by this leading Belgian dance artist for the first time. Of course, she is by no means a stranger in Vienna as a result of her regular appearances at Impulstanz and, more recently, the Wiener Festwochen.
However, another new colour in the repertoire is provided by Merce Cunningham – the American visionary who once shook the dance world with his experiments and has now long since become one of the classics. In his »Duets« from 1979/80 he allows twelve dancers to max out the possibilities of dancing in pairs and counterpoints his own movement vocabulary with typical ballet forms. The musical foundation for this extremely humorous piece is John Cage’s »Improvisation III« – an electronic manipulation of drumming by the Irish percussionists Peadar and Mel Mercier.
A classic modernist is Hans van Manen, who celebrates his 90th birthday in July 2022. In his »Four Schumann Pieces«, created for the Royal Ballet London in 1975, we become witnesses to a man’s emotional state – his desires, fears and passions, that are repeatedly criss-crossed by a group of five couples – like shadows from another world. »Four Schumann Pieces« is an elegant ballet in the lucid language of movement and structures in space that are so typical of Hans van Manen, but it is also a ballet full of romanticism and melancholy.
Cast
Große Fuge
- Choreography
- Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
- Musik
- Große Fuge op. 133 für Streichquartett von Ludwig van Beethoven
- Stage direction
- Jean-Luc Ducourt
- Bühnenbild und Licht
- Jan Joris Lamers
- Costume design
- Rosas
- Musikalische Analyse
- Georges-Elie Octors
- Einstudierung
- Mark Lorimer
- Einstudierung
- Clinton Stringer
- Tänzerin
- Claudine Schoch
- Tänzer
- Eno Peci
- Tänzer
- Lourenço Ferreira
- Tänzer
- Andrés Garcia Torres
- Tänzer
- Trevor Hayden
- Tänzer
- Jackson Carroll
- Tänzer
- Arne Vandervelde
- Tänzer
- Duccio Tariello
- Violine
- Bettina Gradinger
- Violine
- Kota Morikawa
- Viola
- Peter Sagaischek
- Violoncello
- Roland Lindenthal
Duets
- Choreography
- Merce Cunningham © The Merce Cunningham Trust
- Musik
- Improvisation III von John Cage
- Kostüme und Licht
- Mark Lancaster
- Einstudierung
- Andrea Weber
- Tänzerin
- Sinthia Liz
- Tänzer
- Andrés Garcia Torres
- Tänzerin
- Alexandra Inculet
- Tänzer
- Hanno Opperman
- Tänzerin
- Katharina Miffek
- Tänzer
- Giovanni Cusin
- Tänzerin
- Gloria Todeschini
- Tänzer
- Daniel Vizcayo
- Tänzerin
- Helen Clare Kinney
- Tänzer
- François-Eloi Lavignac
- Tänzerin
- Sveva Gargiulo
- Tänzer
- Kristián Pokorný
- Live Elektronik
- Béla Fischer
- Live Elektronik
- Michael Fischer
Four Schumann Pieces
- Choreography
- Hans van Manen
- Musik
- Streichquartett A-Dur op. 41 Nr. 3 von Robert Schumann
- Set design
- Hans van Manen
- Costume design
- Jean-Paul Vroom
- Lighting design
- Bert Dalhuysen
- Einstudierung
- Rachel Beaujean
- Einstudierung
- Larisa Lezhnina
- Realisierung Kostüme
- Oliver Haller
- Tänzer
- Davide Dato
- Tänzerin
- Hyo-Jung Kang
- Tänzer
- Arne Vandervelde
- Tänzerin
- Liudmila Konovalova
- Tänzer
- Alexey Popov
- Tänzerin
- Elena Bottaro
- Tänzer
- Igor Milos
- Tänzerin
- Sonia Dvořák
- Tänzer
- Andrey Teterin
- Tänzerin
- Aleksandra Liashenko
- Tänzer
- Géraud Wielick
- Violine
- Bettina Gradinger
- Violine
- Kota Morikawa
- Viola
- Peter Sagaischek
- Violoncello
- Roland Lindenthal