Vienna, Austria (Ballet: Burden Loops)

https://www.volksoper.at/production/carmen-suite-2027.en.html

Ballets by Eno Peci and Alberto Alonso

In a new creation Eno Peci examines the moments before a decision that are characterised by doubt, pressure and reticence. Burden Loops does not tell us of finding the “right path” so much as of living in a state where the decision itself becomes an endurance test. Within their movement vocabulary, the dancers also find themselves in a moment of pause – between expectation and uncertainty, the urge to move and a lack of orientation. Here their bodies become the means of expressing the tension between a requirement to act and the uncertainty of its outcome. 

“Sometimes I would think: why did Bizet write an opera? It should be a dance!” is what the legendary prima ballerina Maya Plisetskaya said about the work that she would dance in a creation by the Cuban choreographer Alberto Alonso and which became a remarkable triumph for her. 

To an arrangement for percussion and strings by Rodion Shchedrin, whose percussive and pointed instrumentation recast Bizet’s composition in a new mood, Alonso choreographed a truly expressionist ballet. Set in a bullring, whose animal symbolism Alonso associates with the strength and power that makes Carmen who she is, the choreographer concentrates entirely on a woman who wants to live a free and independent life. As a result, the stage provides the scene not for a love triangle but for an existential struggle for freedom, passion and self-determination.  

Leading Team
Burden Loops

Choreografie
Eno Peci

Musik
Philip Glass

Stage and costume design
Diego Rojas Ortiz

Lighting designJohannes Schadl

Carmen Suite
ChoreografieAlberto Alonso
MusikRodion Schtschedrin nach dem Original von Georges Bizet

Stage and costume design
Salvador Fernández nach dem Original von Boris Messerer