Five people in blue stand in front of a reddish cloud of smoke with their arms stretched out far to the side and their fingers spread. They look seriously into the camera. The people behind are blurred. The person in front has a sweaty face.

Dance

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Beethoven 7

Tickets:

44/36/24/14 Euro (conc. from 9 Euro, [k]-Karte from 7 Euro)

Info

We would like to draw your attention to the fact that an increased noise level is to be expected during the first part of "Beethoven 7" for a duration of approx. 10 minutes. In addition, bass tones in a low frequency range can lead to physically noticeable vibrations. Individual hearing protection will be provided at the entrance.

Past dates

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Thursday

4/18/24

8:00 PM

ca 120 Min.

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Friday

4/19/24

8:00 PM

ca 120 Min.

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Saturday

4/20/24

8:00 PM

ca 120 Min.

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Sunday

4/21/24

8:00 PM

ca 120 Min.

A young man with delicate features and shoulder-length brown hair sits bent forwards on a wooden chair. He is wearing a blue, tight-fitting semi-transparent top and is gently holding his hair out of his face with his fingers.

Diego Noguera

Concert followed by the live composition at Sasha Waltz‘ BEETHOVEN 7

In "Beethoven 7", Sasha Waltz and an ensemble of 13 dancers perform the complete "Symphony No. 7 in A major (op. 92)" by Ludwig van Beethoven. In this special music, written in 1812 at the end of the composer's life when he was already deaf, questions of his time resonate 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 future prospects. To the live electronic sounds of Diego Noguera entitled "Freiheit/Extasis" (Freedom/Extasis), which were created 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?

12 dancers stand loosely distributed and moving synchronously in a dark room. They are topless and wear either very wide, dark blue skirts made of sturdy fabric or dark blue trousers. They each stretch one arm forward in a demanding manner.

Six dancers in white dresses move swingingly on a greenish-lit stage floor. They swing their arms and legs up and to the side. Their dresses are made of delicate fabric, their skirts swing around airily.

Approx. 9 dancers, illuminated in dark red, kick their legs stretched out high in the air in a synchronizes movement. They wear loose clothing.

8 people in blue-grey, futuristic costumes dance together in the fog. Their faces are partially distorted, they are grouped close together. One person kneels on the floor, another crawls out from the edge of the picture.

In a room with large windows, about 8 topless people with long dark skirts stand against the wall and clench their fists. In the foreground, two people are jumping almost horizontally about one metre above the floor with their arms stretched out backwards

A thin person with straight black hair wears a tight-fitting blue-grey mesh costume and a headdress of blue-grey ribbons covering her face except for her mouth. She looks at her shoulder gently towards her ear, angling her arm slightly.

10 dancers stand in sync, wide-legged, in a dark room with large windows. They are topless and wear either very wide, dark blue skirts made of sturdy fabric or dark blue trousers. They each stretch one arm upwards.

9 dancers are loosely distributed in a dark room with large windows. They are topless and wear either very wide, dark blue skirts made of sturdy fabric or dark blue trousers. They are turned to the side and stretch their arms upwards.

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With: Sasha Waltz & Guests

Director / Choreography Sasha Waltz Composition Diego Noguera Costume Bernd Skodzig, Federico Polucci Lighting Jörg Bittner, Martin Hauk Dramaturgy Jochen Sandig, Christopher Drum Dancers Rosa Dicuonzo, Edivaldo Ernesto, Yuya Fujinami, Tian Gao, Eva Georgitsopoulou, Hwanhee Hwang, Lorena Justribó Manion, Sara Koluchová, Annapaola Leso, Jaan Männima, Sean Nederlof, Virgis Puodziunas, Sasa Queliz, Orlando Rodriguez Assistant Director and Production Francisco Martinez Miranda, Guest Performance Management Karsten Liske Repetition Jiří Bartovanec Technical Director Reinhard Wizisla Assistant Technical Director Moritz Hauptvogel Stage Management Salvatore Giuseppe Judica Lighting Martin Hauk Assistant Lighting Jörg Bittner Sound Carlo Grippa Costume Management Sandra Tiersch Wardrobe Manja Beneke Hair / Make-Up Kati Heimann Commercial Management Stephan E. Schmidt Board of Directors / Management Sasha Waltz, Jochen Sandig, Bärbel Kern

Cooperation partners: Sasha Waltz & Guests, Radialsystem Berlin, Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Gesellschaftlichen Zusammenhalt.

Supported by the Rusch Stiftung and the Zeit Stiftung Bucerius.

Sasha Waltz & Guests

Beethoven 7

Past dates

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