Sleepless by Jiří Kylián, Nederlands Dans Theater
Sleepless; Choreography by Jiří Kylián; Music by Dirk Haubrich, based on Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Costume Design Joke Visser; Stage Design Jiří Kylián; Lighting design Kees Tjebbes; Video Ron de Groot; Nederlands Dans Theater; Dancers; Aurélie Vayla, Alexander Ekman, Andra Schermoly, Alejandro Cerrudo, Nina Botkay, Kenta Kojiri; Directed by Hans Hulscher; Jiří Kylián has already made many masterpieces, one of them the fascinating Sleepless, a creation for six young dancers in which the set plays an important part. It has a wall behind which dancers – or sometimes just parts of their bodies – appear, disappear and return. The set allows unexpected entrances or creates hallucinating images of heads which in a grotesque way do not appear to go with the bodies. 08.10.2023 1273512_1 (24 min)
