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Goldberg-Variationen / Gods and Dogs
Saturday, 02. November 2013
07:30 pm – 09:50 pm
Nationaltheater
Duration est. 2 hours 20 minutes · Goldberg-Variationen (est. 07:30 pm - 08:50 pm ) · Interval (est. 08:50 pm - 09:25 pm ) · Gods and Dogs (est. 09:25 pm - 10:00 pm )
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Goldberg-Variationen
- Musik
- Johann Sebastian Bach
- Choreographie
- Jerome Robbins
- Kostüme
- Joe Eula
- Licht
- Thomas Skelton
- 1, Pas de deux Frau
- Ekaterina Petina
- 1. Pas de deux Herr
- Cyril Pierre
- 2. Pas de deux Frau
- Evgenia Dolmatova
- 2. Pas de deux Herr
- Matej Urban
- 3. Pas de deux Frau
- Lucia Lacarra
- 3. Pas de deux Herr
- Tigran Mikayelyan
- 1. Pas de trois Frau
- Ivy Amista
- 1. Pas de trois Herr 1
- Léonard Engel
- 1. Pas de trois Herr 2
- Adam Zvonař
- 2. Pas de trois Frau
- Katherina Markowskaja
- 2. Pas de trois Herr 1
- Karen Azatyan
- 2. Pas de trois Herr 2
- Javier Amo
Gods and Dogs
- Musik
- Jiří Kylián
- Musik
- Dirk Haubrich
- Choreographie
- Jiří Kylián
- Bühne
- Jiří Kylián
- Kostüme
- Joke Visser
- Licht
- Kees Tjebbes
- Projektionen
- Daniel Bisig
- Projektionen
- Tatsuo Unemi
- Paar 1 Frau
- Emma Barrowman
- Paar 1 Herr
- Wlademir Faccioni
- Paar 2 Frau
- Stephanie Hancox
- Paar 2 Herr
- Dustin Klein
- Paar 3 Frau
- Mai Kono
- Paar 3 Herr
- Karen Azatyan
- Paar 4 Frau
- Zuzana Zahradníková
- Paar 4 Herr
- Lukáš Slavický
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In 2008 Jiří Kylián created this mysterious, almost mystical ballet for four couples for the NDT with almost the identical team of composers, stage designers and project designers who had realized his “Zugvögel” (“Migratory Birds”) in Munich. “Gods and Dogs”, a puzzling double figure that emerged from the realm of the pharaohs, is a further step into the current cosmos of the Czech choreographer, who says of himself: “I am interested in the borderlines between normality and madness, between health and illness, and the norms which define both. At any moment of his life, a person can be designated as being in the one or the other category. But the precise moment when he is ultimately pushed over the border into pathological madness is beyond his perception.”
The Goldberg-Variations have tempted the widest variety of choreographers to venture interpretations over the decades, and they in turn have discovered the widest variety of valid solutions. One indisputable fact however is that the crown belongs to Jerome Robbins’s 1971 creation. “A terpsichorean play of jubilation”, wrote Horst Koegler after the world première: “the choreography as a paraphrase of space and motion, playing around the music, competing with it… a demonstration of a dance philosophy obligated only to itself, instructions for learning how to watch dance.” Robbins’s unmistakable adoption and casual variation of the classic motion canon, his instinct for structure and his absorption into Bach’s musical cosmos – the physical perfection of ballet transcended into a metaphysical event.
Biographies
Jerome Robbins is world renowned for his work as a choreographer of ballets as wells as for his work as choreographer and director in theater, movies and television.
He started his career in 1939 when joining the corps de ballet of American Ballet Theatre. Soon, he was casted for principal roles in the works of Fokine, Tudor, Massine, Lichine, and de Milles. In 1944, Robbins created his first ballet, Fancy Free, which premiered with ABT. More than 60 ballets followed, for example Afternoon of a Faun (1953), The Concert (1956), Les Noces (1965), Dances at a Gathering (1969), In the Night (1970), The Goldberg Variations (1971), In G Major (1975), Other Dances (1976), Glass Pieces (1983) und Ives Songs (1989) which are in the repertoires of major dance companies throughout the world. He has worked closely with New York City Ballet. In 1949, he was given the position of Associate Artistic Director and, several years later, the position of Ballet-Master-in-Chief which he shared with Peter Martins.
Simultaneously, Robbins worked as a choreographer and director for numerous Broadway musicals and plays. Among them are On the Town (1945), Billion Dollar Baby (1946), High Button Shoes (1947), Miss Liberty (1949), Call me Madame (1950), The King and I (1951), Peter Pan (1954), West Side Story (1957), for which he received two Academy Awards, Gypsy (1959) and Fiddler on the Roof (1964). His last musical Jerome Robbins’ Broadway of 1989 won him six Tony Awards including Best Musical and Best Director.
Other awards and citations include five Donaldson Awards, an Emmy Award, the Screen Directors' Guild Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. He is a 1981 Kennedy Center Honors Recipient and was awarded the French Chevalier dans l'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur.
Jerome Robbins passed away in 1998 at the age of 80 years.