Dialoge Roma 2020 – Terra sacra

Sasha Waltz & Guests at Festival Romaeuropa 2020: The German choreographer developed an open air project in correlation of music, choreography and architecture, artistically referring to the idea of the »Dialogues«, which have taken place regularly since the company's founding in 1993. In »Dialoge Roma 2020 – Terra sacra« 21 dancers converted the space in front of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome into a stage. The evening began with individual dance solos grappling with the topic of discrimination to the trumpet solo »I can’t breathe« by Georg Friedrich Haas. Subsequently the audience experienced an adaptation of Sasha Waltz' choreography »Sacre« (2013) to the ballet »Le sacre du printemps« by Igor Stravinsky, which gives the project its title, telling the story of a spring rite, of sacrifice and the chance at new beginnings. The adaptation creatively dealt with the limiting conditions and circumstances of the then current situation.