All-Nordic Program.

Three piece dance programme by
Örjan Andersson, Kenneth Kvarnström and Johan Inger

In 2011, choreographer Örjan Andersson won the Svenska Dagbladet Opera Award for, among other works, his Beethoven’s 32 variations, created for The Göteborg Ballet. Quoting the jury: “With musical integrity, he allows the dancers of the Göteborg Opera to chisel out free voices for Beethoven’s piano variations - sensitively and poignantly.”

Beethoven wanted to dedicate his heroic symphony to Napoleon, but when he named himself Emperor Beethoven believed that he had distanced himself from his earlier high humanistic ideals. Beethoven himself was the subject of intense worship after his death. He was one of the first free artists and – due to increasing deafness – surrounded by increasing silence. Instead he listened to his inner self, to the musical creativity of his soul. Like a theme with many variations, Beethoven has been interpreted in many different ways. His music is now interpreted afresh through the work of Örjan Andersson’s contemporary choreography.

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Beethoven's 32 variations

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Johan Inger takes us on an explorative journey from chaos to order with nine dancers, 64 ropes and music from, among others, Alva Noto. His suggestive Falter moves from the fleeting to the permanent, from frenzy to a peaceful calm.

Falter describes a world where nothing is constant. Our struggle to adjust to external and internal changes is ongoing; all we can do is to start anew. In a forest of ropes, man has fallen and explores how to rise again. Bodies flickers by in the glow of lights in a series of short meetings. As the context unfolds and music changes the ensemble of nine unite in energy, intensity, harmony, seeking a kind of acceptance.

Falter is Johan Inger’s first production created exclusively for The Göteborg Ballet and is dedicated to the choreographer Per Jonsson (1956-1998). Inger is the former artistic director of Cullberg ballet and is current resident choreographer at Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT).

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Four originators, five dancers, all must have trust, both in the fall and in the lift. They are components in a musical motor that was once invented by a Frenchman fascinated by mechanics, Maurice Ravel. His Boléro beats somewhere in the background of Rintamäki´s sound picture, whose volume just grows, interrupted by a wedge, or rather a gleam, of bell sounds. The costumes, set design and light quote the rhythmic core motif – in graphic shapes on a reflector, in a collar’s creases and folds, garments that can take the shape of a bolero, a magical flower, or more industrial: cogwheels.

Unfolding, increasing, folding, a growing volume alongside a rhythm where bodies are united in a motoric musicality, both monumental and divinely light.
OreloB was created for The Göteborg Ballet in 2008

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