Why did we do all that: toughness, endurance, pain, the whole juvenile struggle and competition for skill and discipline aiming to become classical dancers? Four decades later, four former ballet dancers and a performance colleague look back on the time of their common artistic imprint on the occasion of a gala for Lajos Talamonti's 40th stage anniversary.The memory of the structures is still alive in the bodies, the demon of the pursuit for perfection and universal beauty, for indescribable body poetry is still alive, but life has written completely new pages: full of contradictions, new beginnings, changes of perspective. Art and life have indissolubly mixed and rubbed off on each other. In a final joint dance, they – also through the temporal distance – make the rigid structures of classicism pliable, and tell of life as an often surprising school thats method everyone has to reinvent for themselves every day. The search for "expression", once obsessively rehearsed according to precise rules, thus opens up a new terrain allowing the question of "style" to appear in a new light.
By and with: Christine Bombosch, Martin Clausen, Marc Geifes, Brit Rodemund, Lajos Talamonti
Artistic Director: Lajos Talamonti
Choreography: Berit Jentzsch
Set design: Katharina Kromminga
Dramaturgy: Werner Waas
Technical direction: Dirk Lutz
Artistic assistance: Corinne Maier
Production: Olaf Nachtwey
PR: Beate Zeller
Photo: Paula Reissig
Duration: 1 h 20 min.
We would like to thank the Heinz Bosl Foundation for their kind support.
Special thanks to Heinz Manniegel, Hanna Miller, Martin Puttke, Dagmar Springer and Johanna Wall.
A production by Lajos Talamonti. Supported by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and the Cultural Department of the City of Munich.
