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LILIOM |
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The Child: "Is it possible for someone to hit you – real loud and hard – and not hurt you a all?"
Julie: "Yes, it is possible dear – that someone may beat you and beat you and beat you - and not hurt you at all."
At the end of Ferenc Molnár's suburban legend, mother and child, who share the same experiences with Liliom. The former showman, though adored by women, bears a hard life, but still makes others suffer, too. He turns his back on the fair milieu because of a mislead feeling of honor and is drawn to the margin of society. His child is supposed to have a better life, yet Liliom must realize that his own life's story is written on by that of his child. "The events, that happen in the course of the play, make Liliom react", says John Neumeier, who retells Molnár's play through dance.
The background for the ballet is evoked by Michel Legrand's music, reminiscent of the America of the 1930s – at the height of the Great Depression with all its social consequences. A time, when people's shattered dreams made them crave for non-committal entertainment. Their lives were fundamentally disillusioned and they were therefore in need for a kind of amusement which made them feel that life was still worth living. This aspect is musically introduced by the NDR Big Band as Oscar winning composer Michel Legrand created an orchestra score, which also includes jazz elements.
Liliom
Ballet Legend by John Neumeier
at the Hamburg State Opera
Performances: January 22, 24 and 31, 2015
7:30 PM
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YOUNG CHOREOGRAPHERS |
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Make sure you get your tickets for the "young choreographers" in 2015!
The sale starts on November 21st at 10.00 AM. Tickets for 25€ are available at the ticket office of the Hamburg State Opera, by phone 040/35 68 68 and online. Please note that there are no numbered seats.
"We as dancers try to communicate with the audience through our dancing. For some of us though, it is not enough to speak the words someone has already written, and so we must create our own songs, poems, stories and sometimes even our language which take the form of steps and choreographies spoken through our bodies", says the coordinator of the "young choreographers" Braulio Alvarez.
Since 1974, members of the ensemble of the HAMBURG BALLET regularly get the chance to work as choreographers. In March 2015, 17 dancers take over the artistic direction of the performances. The "young choreographers" cooperate with musicians of the "Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg" so that there will be also live music at the stage of the opera stabile.
Young Choreographers
at the opera stabile in Hamburg
Performances:
March 7, 2015 | 8.00 PM
March 8, 2015 | 2.00 PM and 7.00 PM
March 9, 2015 | 7.30 PM
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