»Beethoven 7« und »In C« in Hellerau - European Centre for the Arts
The choreography by Sasha Waltz will be performed on April 24 and 25 in Hellerau - European Centre for the Arts in Dresden.
In April 2025, we will be guests in Hellerau for the third time in the company's history. We already made a guest appearance in 1997 with the production »Allee der Kosmonauten«, and in 2019 we presented »Kreatur« there. We look forward to returning to Hellerau with »Beethoven 7«!
Sasha Waltz and an ensemble of 14 dancers devote themselves to the complete »Symphony No. 7 in A major (op. 92)« by Ludwig van Beethoven. This music, composed in 1812, resonates with questions of its time that still play a role for us today: the failure of a revolution, the (forced) return to old traditions, the friction between the desire for social transformation and restoration and the associated loss of freedom and future prospects.
At the beginning of the evening, Sasha Waltz takes up these themes and reinterprets them from a contemporary perspective to the live electronic sounds of Chilean composer Diego Noguera with the title »Freiheit/Extasis«, which were commissioned and developed during the creation process. How do personal freedom and social constraints relate to each other?
