Spectrum
Ballett am Rhein
In search of an epithet for the 21st century, the British author George Monbiot coined the term “The Age of Loneliness”. Despite ever closer communication and media networks it is above all the young generation that increasingly struggles with social isolation and difficulties in building relationships. Recent months have focussed attention on the often invisible phenomenon of loneliness.
In his first creation for the Ballett am Rhein, Juanjo Arqués looks behind their apparently protective facades to portray modern searchers.
To remain distanced but breathe together: this is how a company can still understand itself as a body that moves together – even in times like these.
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Choreography Juanjo Arqués
Music Marc Mellits Dramaturge Maurice Lenhard Set & Costumes Tatyana van Walsum
Lights Volker Weinhart
Company Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf - Duisburg World première October 2020.
“The Spanish choreographer Juanjo Arqués is looking for the greatest possible individuality, which is released in a polyphonic furor. Sheets of fabric rise and fall, a dancer appears as a shadow and thus unreachable - Eric White will only meet this woman again in a later scene. And since he is lucky enough to be connected to Feline van Dijken in real life as well, the wonderful duo brings us, in which the two do not have to save on touch.”