"Slow Burn" Ballettabend mit Werken von Aszure Barton und William Forsythe

In the organizer's words:

The Hamburg Ballet 's ballet evening Slow Burn brings together two different choreographic styles: the Canadian choreographer and ballet innovator Aszure Barton and William Forsythe, one of the most influential dance makers of our time.

Aszure Barton opens the evening with her eponymous piece Slow Burn, which explores the various facets of human emotion. Inspired by Rilke's quote "Let everything happen to you: Beauty and horror ..." she focuses on the strength and wisdom of older women, which is often overlooked. True to Barton's "working with what's there" approach, Michelle Jank's impressive costumes were made from recycled materials from the Staatsoper's costume collection. The poetic and atmospheric commissioned composition by Ambrose Akinmusire lends the work a cinematic intensity.

The second part is created by William Forsythe with his work Blake Works V (The Barre Project), developed during the 2020 pandemic, which sheds new light on classical ballet. At the center is the ballet barre as a physical and symbolic reference object, which seems to reach into infinity with its ends sprawling out to the sides. To the electro-pop compositions of British avant-garde musician James Blake - who is already followed by over 9 million people on Spotify - a timeless celebration of the art of ballet unfolds - a must not only for all fans of classical ballet!