Swan Lake, Margaret Island Theatre Budapest, 20 July
- 12 Jul 2024 3:56 PM
After Snow White and Romeo and Juliet, Angelin Preljocaj is returning to story ballet and his taste for stories.
Combining Tchaikovsky’s musical masterpiece with more contemporary arrangements as he likes to do, he takes possession of the myth of the swan-dancer.
A work begun in 2018 with Ghost, in which he paid tribute to Marius Petipa, projecting himself into the choreographer’s imagination at the same moment as the idea of his Swan Lake occurred to him.
“Angelin Preljocaj gives a brilliant reinterpretation of Swan Lake’s greatest moments. His elegant and colorful writing is complemented by Éric Soyer’s dreamy lighting and Boris Labbé’s palingenesis scenography. (…)
Tchaikovsky’s voluptuous score meets 79D’s contemporary electro, accompanying a creation where the choreographer finds a natural expression of movement. Dancers perform en pointe barefooted, laying their arms on their shoulders as swans folding their wings or flocking together when frightened, to form colonies of dead waterlilies on the stage.”
Date and time:
20 July 2024 at 9 p.m. (rain date: 21 July)
Duration 1h50
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Margaret Island Open-Air Stage
1007 Budapest / Margaret Island Open-Air Stage and Water Tower 23800/3 hrsz.
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