»Beethoven 7« in Italy
»Beethoven 7« is coming to Brussels! As part of the Troika Dance festival, Sasha Waltz & Guests will be presenting the production to a Belgian audience for the first time from 3 to 6 September.
The Troika Dance Festival is now in its 7th year and presents dance works by emerging and established choreographers and ensembles from all over the world. In addition to the KVS and the Théâtre National Wallonie-Bruxelles, dance works will also be staged at the La Monnaie / De Munt opera house. Sasha Waltz & Guests have been performing there at regular intervals since 2012 – most recently, with »Kreatur«. We are now delighted to return to this venue for the Belgian premiere of »Beethoven 7« from 3 to 6 September.
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?
