Beethoven 7, Sasha Waltz

In the organizer's words:

In "Beethoven 7", Sasha Waltz and an ensemble of 14 dancers dedicate themselves to the complete "Symphony No. 7 in A major (op. 92)" by Ludwig van Beethoven. This special music, composed in 1812 at the end of the composer's life when he was already deaf, resonates with questions of his 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 accompanying loss of freedom and prospects for the future.

To the live electronic sounds of the Chilean composer Diego Noguera Berger entitled "Freiheit/Extasis", which were commissioned during the creation process, Sasha Waltz takes up these themes at the beginning of the evening and reinterprets them from a contemporary perspective: How do personal freedom and social constraints relate to each other?