Sibelius / Bruckner

2-part ballet evening by Anne Jung and Uwe Scholz | Music by Jean Sibelius and Anton Bruckner

Duration: 2 hours | 1 intermission | ages 15 and up

Choreography continues to write itself. About music, about bodies, about time. A thread runs from one work to the next, connecting people and places and weaving itself into the DNA of a company.

Anne Jung's choreography to Sibelius' Symphony No. 2 draws on the mythological motif of the underworld. The focus is on threshold experiences: Transformation, cyclical return, the tension between destiny and autonomy. Jung works with mythological structures as associative spaces and poses questions that are topical across time and societies: What is predetermined? Which patterns do we inherit, which do we break?

Uwe Scholz's Pas de deux from Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 stands as an answer - a thread that is already firmly woven into this city. The third movement - Bruckner's Adagio, his meditation on transience and transcendence - shows 30 minutes of concentrated togetherness. We see love in its entire spectrum: vulnerable and powerful, dissolved and precise, earthly and sublime. The choreographic precision with which he translates musical monumentality into human closeness is unparalleled. His legacy in Leipzig means artistic attitude: truthfulness in music and dance, uncompromisingness of form.