Creations - the repertoire of tomorrow?
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Over the past few years, we have discussed current topics relating to dance with choreographers anddancers, dance professionals from other institutions, academics, composersand journalists in the Tanzpodium series.
On May 10 at 3 pm in the Gustav Mahler Saal, the discussion format initiated by ballet director Martin Schläpfer and his team will now conclude with a central topic: the role of creation for the repertoire and the artistic formation of an ensemble.
"Creation means experiencing where dance stands today, what drives contemporary artists.
Creation requires dancers to have the courage to enter a terrain that is not defined from the outset," explains Martin Schläpfer - and is convinced: "Creation is a basic prerequisite for the performing arts to remain alive and relevant to our society."
Over the past five years, Martin Schläpfer has created a total of ten new works - for the repertoire of the Vienna State Opera and the Volksoper Wien, the Ballet Academy's youth company and the Vienna Opera Ball - as chief choreographer of the Vienna State Ballet and has been able to win Alexei Ratmansky, Marco Goecke, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Andreas Heise and Adi Hanan as guests for new choreographies - a series that will continue with the premiere of Creations on 14 June at the Volksoper Wien with three new works. The series will conclude with the premiere of Kreationen on June 14 at the Volksoper Wien with three world premieres, including a musical work by Swedish composer Lisa Streich commissioned by the Vienna State Ballet.
In the dance panel Kreationen - das Repertoire von morgen?, the three choreographers of the program Martin Chaix, Alessandra Corti and Louis Stiens will join Martin Schläpfer to discuss the importance of creative processes for an ensemble, the safeguarding of ballet art for the present through new works as well as current material, aesthetics and body images on the ballet stage.
"For me, choreography is a collaborative process, the documentation of a journey, an ongoing act of decision making and problem solving.
Choreography involves translation, transformation and research, but above all storytelling.
I see choreography as a way to celebrate the connection between the storyteller and the listener - that magical moment whenan artist steps on stage and has something to tell and someone in the audience wants to listen."
"Choreography is the art of organization - from situations to emotional states.
It is a game between form and dissolution.
In my work, I combine thinking with intuition - the head meets the heart."
"For me, choreography is the spatial and physical expression of human and social impulses.
A choreographic work makes the music, the emotions that flow through the protagonists of a story, the dynamics of a movement and the collective energy of an ensemble tangible.
Through the body, chaos becomes poetic material and the complexity of an emotion or thought underlying an action takes shape to evoke our deepest desires and most intimate longings."