Dance
Continu
Sasha Waltz & Guests
Directed and choreographed by Sasha Waltz
German dance-theater icon Sasha Waltz has turned the stage into a flame-licked apocalypse (Gezeiten, 2010 Next Wave), a teeming humanoid specimen box (Körper, 2002 Next Wave), and a sun-soaked underwater playground (Dido & Aeneas, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg and Staatsoper Unter den Linden, Berlin).
In Continu, 21 dancers hurtle through a landscape of chaos yielding to calm, propelled by Edgard Varèse’s 1927 orchestral masterwork Arcana, along with music by Iannis Xenakis, Claude Vivier, and Mozart. As emotion vies with reason, bodies careen and convulse across a volatile terrain in this exhilarating summation of the last decade of Waltz’s career, originating from site-specific projects for the Neues Museum Berlin and Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI museum in Rome.
Set design by Thomas Schenk, Pia Maier Schriever, and Sasha Waltz
Costume design by Bernd Skodzig
Light design by Martin Hauk
Dramaturgy by Jochen Sandig
Music by Edgard Varèse
Additional music by Iannis Xenakis, Claude Vivier, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Produced in collaboration with Schauspielhaus Zürich/Zürcher Festspiele, spielzeit’europa|Berliner Festspiele and Sadler’s Wells London.
Supported by Radial Stiftung. Made in Radialsystem V.
Sasha Waltz & Guests is supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Land Berlin
- Discounts from 15 to 30%.
- Free exchanges.
- Reduced handling fees.
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