Pas de Quatre

Jiří Kylián / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

SIX DANCES

"I've decided that I cannot simply create a dance series reflecting the composer's sense of humour and music genious. Instead, I've choreographed six visibly confusing scenes..." (Jiří Kylián)

In Kylián's ballet, Mozartian playfulness and absurd reality are transplanted into the language of movement. It was not a story that he set out to create, but rather a dance piece constructed out of the absurd situations encountered by heroes in powdered wigs who sometimes act irrationally and awkwardly: the very dictionary definition of the word "burlesque". From the first moment, the eight dancers take the stage like they are stepping out of a wax museum from Mozart's own era, and then the innovative freshness and dizzying dynamic of the choreography makes them ever more modern: timeless heroes of Kylián's absurd creative world.

Program and cast

Choreographer
Jiří Kylián
Composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Set designer
Jiří Kylián
Costume designer
Jiří Kylián
Lighting designer
Jiří Kylián
Joop Caboort
Lighting/Technical adaptation
Kees Tjebbes
Joost Biegelaar
Répétiteur
Yvan Dubreuil
Shirley Esseboom
Company répétiteurs
György Szirb
Marianna Venekei
Conductor
Imre Kollár
1st girl
Rita Hangya
Remedios Agustín Castaño
2nd girl
Yuka Asai
Barbara Kerényi
3rd girl
Kateryna Tarasova
Anita Tiffany Pesel
4th girl
Ágnes Kelemen
Aglaja Sawatzki
1st boy
Dávid Molnár
Dmitry Zhukov
2nd boy
Yago Guerra
Balázs Majoros
3rd boy
András Szegő
Maksym Kovtun
4th boy
Motomi Kiyota
Ricardo Vila M.