Gessnerallee
Zürich

nicht schlafen

les ballets C de la B / Alain Platel

The initial inspiration for Alain Platel's new work is the music of Gustav Mahler, which portrays the fragmented world up until shortly before the beginning of World War I. In the soundscapes of composer Steven Prengels, Mahler's music encounters polyphonic African singing, the clanging of cowbells, and noises made by sleeping animals.
All these resound in the theater space designed by artist Berlinde De Bruyckere: a place where suffering is formulated ritually. Here, the bodies of the nine dancers go through stages of excessiveness and suffering, which reach states of obscene lust. In spite of all this, a slight hope remains that humankind will not be the victim of any new large-scale strategies of annihilation.

Credits

→ non-language based performance
June
16 Fri Halle
20.00
17 Sat Halle
20.00