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Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps

Choreography for 40 Machines to Music by Igor Stravinsky

  • © Wonge Bergmann für die Ruhrtriennale
    (c) Wonge Bergmann für die Ruhrtriennale
  • (c) Ruhrtriennale, Video: Matthias Mohr, 2014
  • © Wonge Bergmann
    (c) Wonge Bergmann
  • © Wonge Bergmann
    (c) Wonge Bergmann
  • © Wonge Bergmann
    (c) Wonge Bergmann
  • © Wonge Bergmann
    (c) Wonge Bergmann
  • © Stephan Glagla
    Romeo Castellucci
    (c) Stephan Glagla

While Le Sacre du Printemps caused an outburst of rejection at its Paris premiere in 1913 due to its unexpected explosiveness, it is now considered an epochal piece of modernism. Last year, the Greek director Teodor Currentzis and the Perm orchestra MusicAeterna brought the festival to a thrilling conclusion with their unconventional, wild interpretation of the piece.

 Italian director Romeo Castellucci now breaks with 100 years of performance history and returns Sacre to its material origins. In so doing, Stravinsky’s machine of sound forms a central point of departure: sudden sounds, driving, overlapping rhythmic patterns, extensive repetitions. Castellucci translates all this into a choreography of bone dust. With this industrially treated animal material, which is used in agriculture as fertilizer, Castellucci refers to the motifs of sacrifice and fertility. He transforms the dust into a kind of molecular dance: “as if the dancers in the space were atomized and became a cloud of dust . . . dancing dust particles, the perpetual dance of the universe.” He thus places the work at a critical distance, returning Sacre some of the alterity that the piece has lost on its way to becoming a classic. With his radical reinterpretation, Castellucci poses the question of whether this musical-choreographic work can still be danced today, or whether other means are necessary to experience the collision of beauty with the brutality of the sacrifice.

Conzept, Direction —
Romeo Castellucci
Sound —
Scott Gibbons
Programming —
Hubert Machnik
Collaboration Direction —
Silvia Costa
Collaboration Stage —
Maroussia Vaes
Collaboration Lighting —
Marco Giusti
Recording —
MusicAeterna unter der musikalischen Leitung von Teodor Currentzis

Shows

Location
— Gebläsehalle, Duisburg
Premiere
— 16. August 2014
Further dates
— 15. 16. 17. 17. 19. 20. 21. 22. 22. 23. 23. 24. 24. 25. August
Duration
— ca. 1 h
World Premiere
Tickets
— 20 / 30 €
Reduced prices start at 10,00 €

Project supporter

With the friendly support of Italienischen Kulturinstitut Köln.

August
  • Fri15Aug
    17.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 15. August 2014 at 5.00 PM
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  • Sat16Aug
    14.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 16. August 2014 at 2.00 PM
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    20.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 16. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
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  • Sun17Aug
    14.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 17. August 2014 at 2.00 PM
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    20.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 17. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
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  • Tue19Aug
    20.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 19. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
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  • Wed20Aug
    20.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 20. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
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  • Thu21Aug
    20.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 21. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
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  • Fri22Aug
    14.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 22. August 2014 at 2.00 PM
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    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 22. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
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  • Sat23Aug
    14.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 23. August 2014 at 2.00 PM
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    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 23. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
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  • Sun24Aug
    14.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 24. August 2014 at 2.00 PM
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    20.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 24. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
  • Mon25Aug
    20.00
    Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps on 25. August 2014 at 8.00 PM
* The decision whether and when tickets can be returned for sale is usually based on artistic reasons. Frequently it is only evident during the rehearsal process or the technical preparations whether technical barriers, for example, may be moved or removed. In such an event, seats and therefore also tickets will become available. Current information is available in our TicketServiceMail.

Recommendations

freitagsküche for Romeo Castellucci: Le Sacre du Printemps
saturdays
16. August 2014
Gebläsehalle, Duisburg
tumbletalk 4
Romeo Castellucci / Emilio Pomàrico
7. September 2014
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Morton Feldman / Samuel Beckett: Neither
Music theater, production by Romeo Castellucci
6. September 2014, 7. September 2014, 12. September 2014, 14. September 2014, 19. September 2014, 20. September 2014
Jahrhunderthalle Bochum
A production by Ruhrtriennale in coproduction with Manchester International Festival, Perm State Opera, Parc de la Villette Paris.