Strauss 2225: Dances for the Future
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Strauss 2225: Dances for the Future
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How can dance music feel and sound in the body in the year 2225?
How can the sounds of Johann Strauss (son) inspire the music of the future and how can the composer's legacy remain alive? Canadian choreographer Robert Binet searches for answers to these questions in his world premiere Strauss 2225: Dances for the Future, which will be brought to the stage at NEST in cooperation with JOHANN STRAUSS 2025 WIEN: "What particularly interests me about Johann Strauss' cultural contribution is that he wrote popular dance music, music that people danced to in order to be in community, to escape from life and to experience thrills driven by melody and rhythm, to fly through space."
Robert Binet has asked very different creative thinkers and writers to design four scenarios about a world in the year 2225 - Devon Healey, as a blind woman, devotes herself to a world in which blindness is understood as an alternative form of perception, in which a different kind of imagination can be shaped. Christiana Figueres, a diplomat from Costa Rica, writes about the diverse manifestations of languages and communication. Choreographer Donald Byrd travels through time and a group of young adults document a pure and unfiltered conversation about topics that concern their generation.
The dialog with the audience becomes part of the production, in which the spectators are actively involved, the participating artists and content are not presented to them in the form of an introduction or a follow-up discussion, but are integrated into the performance.
In this dance project, dancers from the youth company of the Vienna State Opera Ballet Academy come together with artistic voices from all over the world.
How can the sounds of Johann Strauss Sohn inspire the music of the future? The music of Johann Strauss Sohn will be interpreted by the four composers in a contemporary way, whereby there are no limits to creativity and Strauss' music can be experienced in the form of quotations, distortions, sound manipulations, fragmentations and more.