Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sechs tänze

ballet in one act

Friday | 17 November 2017|19:10

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Dates

Concept, choreography, sets and costumes: Jiří Kylián (the Netherlands)
Music Director: Honoured Artist of Ukraine Viktor Ploskina
Lighting design: Joop Caboort (the Netherlands)
Assistants to the Choreographer: Shirley Esseboom (the Netherlands), Joost Biegelaar (the Netherlands), Henk Palmers (the Netherlands)
Ballet Masters and Répétiteurs: Honoured Artist of the Republic of Belarus Konstantin Kuznetsov, winner of international competitions Olga Kostel 
Conductor: Ivan Kostiakhin

Premiere: 8 October 2013

 

Солистки – Надежда Филиппова, Александра Чижик, Анна Фокина, Ижена Квашина
Солисты – Константин Героник, Константин Кузнецов, Андрей Посох, Павел Ушаков
Дирижер – Иван Костяхин

Two centuries separate us from the time, Mozart wrote his German Dances. A historical period shaped considerably by wars, revolutions, and all sorts of social upheavals.

With this in mind I found it impossible to simply create different dance numbers reflecting merely the humor and musical brilliance of the composer. Instead, I have set six seemingly non-sensical acts, which obviously ignore their surroundings. They are dwarfed in face of the ever present troubled world, which most of us for some unspecified reason carry in our souls.

Although the entertaining quality of Mozart’s Sechs Tänze enjoys great general popularity, it shouldn't only be regarded as a burlesqué. Its humor ought to serve as a vehicle to point towards our relative values. Mozart's ability to react upon difficult circumstances with a self-preserving outburst of nonsensical poetry is well known. A fragment of a letter to his cousin is the finest example of this.

Fragments of a letter which Mozart wrote on November 13, 1777 - he was 21 at the time - to das Bäsle, pet name for his cousin Maria Anna Thekla, presumably Mozart's first love. [W. Hildesheimer, Mozart, Frankfurt/Main (Suhrkamp) 1977].

Ma très chère Nièce! Cousine! fille!
Mère, Sœur, et Epouse!
Poz Himmel Tausend sakristey, Cruaten schwere noth, teüfel, hexen truden, kreüz = Battalion und kein End, Poz Element, luft, wasser, erd und feüer, Europa, asia, affrica und America, jesuiter, Augustiner, Benedictiner, Capuciner, minoriten, franziscaner, Dominicaner, Chartheüser, und heil: kreüzer herrn, Canonici Regulares und iregulares, und alle bärnhäüter, spizbuben, hundsfütter, Cujonen und schwänz übereinander, Eseln, büffeln, ochsen, Narrn, dalcken und fexen! was ist das für eine Manier, 4 soldaten und 3 Bandelier? -- so ein Paquet und kein Portrait? -- ich war schon voll begierde -- ich glaubte gewis -- denn sie schrieben mir ja unlängst selbst, daß ich es gar bald, recht gar bald bekommen werde.

Premiere: 8 October 2013

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