18.01.–17.04.2025 / Ballett
Drei Meister – Drei Werke
George Balanchine / Hans van Manen / William Forsythe
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Opernhaus Düsseldorf
19:30 - 21:30
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Content
Neoclassicism can be that different
George Balanchine's choreography "Rubies" embodies the essence of this blood-red gem: sharp-edged, energetic and full of fire, the dancers whirl across the stage to Stravinsky's Capriccio for piano and orchestra. Balanchine skilfully combines a firework of complex jumps and pointe dancing with jazz dance steps as seen on the stages of New York's Broadway. Kaleidoscope images in scarlet celebrating the energetic power of dance.
"In each fleeting appearance I see worlds, full of the interplay of rainbow colours." This line of poetry inspired Sergei Prokofiev's Visiones Fugitives, op. 22, which Hans van Manen used as the starting point for his choreography of the same name in 1990. Full of harmony and dynamics, surprising and captivating, movements and music merge in the fleeting and thus so attractive art of dance. A choreography that touches and inspires, that makes no distinction between the sexes, that makes us forget the world around us for a moment.
Alternating between frenetic and calm, dark and mysterious, to the pulsating rhythm of the music, the three-part evening comes to a brilliant end with William Forsythe's work "Enemy in the Figure". The light, as much a part of the choreography as the dance steps themselves, makes the space explode or shrink, makes dancers burst out of the darkness and develops an inescapable pull. The individual is at the centre of this confrontation of light and dark, a work that has lost none of its modernity in its urgency and radical aesthetics.
"In each fleeting appearance I see worlds, full of the interplay of rainbow colours." This line of poetry inspired Sergei Prokofiev's Visiones Fugitives, op. 22, which Hans van Manen used as the starting point for his choreography of the same name in 1990. Full of harmony and dynamics, surprising and captivating, movements and music merge in the fleeting and thus so attractive art of dance. A choreography that touches and inspires, that makes no distinction between the sexes, that makes us forget the world around us for a moment.
Alternating between frenetic and calm, dark and mysterious, to the pulsating rhythm of the music, the three-part evening comes to a brilliant end with William Forsythe's work "Enemy in the Figure". The light, as much a part of the choreography as the dance steps themselves, makes the space explode or shrink, makes dancers burst out of the darkness and develops an inescapable pull. The individual is at the centre of this confrontation of light and dark, a work that has lost none of its modernity in its urgency and radical aesthetics.
Music
RUBIES
Igor Strawinsky
Capriccio für Klavier und Orchester (1929)
1. Presto
2. Andante rapsodico
3. Allegro capriccioso ma tempo giusto
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VISIONS FUGUTIVES
Sergei Prokofjew
Visions Fugitives op. 22 (1917)
ursprünglich 20 Stücke für Solo-Klavier komponiert
Arrangement für Streichorchester von Rudolf Barschai (1963)
Auswahl zusammengestellt von Hans van Manen
1. Lentamente
2. Andante
3. Allegretto
4. Animato
5. Molto giocoso
6. Con eleganza
8. Commodo
9. Allegretto tranquillo
10. Ridicolosamente
11. Con vivacita
12. Assai moderato
13. Allegretto
14. Feroce
15. Inquieto
16. Dolente
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ENEMY IN THE FIGURE
Thom Willems
Enemy in the Figure (1989)
Igor Strawinsky
Capriccio für Klavier und Orchester (1929)
1. Presto
2. Andante rapsodico
3. Allegro capriccioso ma tempo giusto
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VISIONS FUGUTIVES
Sergei Prokofjew
Visions Fugitives op. 22 (1917)
ursprünglich 20 Stücke für Solo-Klavier komponiert
Arrangement für Streichorchester von Rudolf Barschai (1963)
Auswahl zusammengestellt von Hans van Manen
1. Lentamente
2. Andante
3. Allegretto
4. Animato
5. Molto giocoso
6. Con eleganza
8. Commodo
9. Allegretto tranquillo
10. Ridicolosamente
11. Con vivacita
12. Assai moderato
13. Allegretto
14. Feroce
15. Inquieto
16. Dolente
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ENEMY IN THE FIGURE
Thom Willems
Enemy in the Figure (1989)