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Our critically-acclaimed music-and-dance production takes three rich pieces of music that push at the boundaries and restrictions of artistic expression, and creates something entirely new.
Merging astute, inquisitive choreography with razor-sharp live musical performance, Prelude – skydiving from a dream transports you to a dark, pulsating playground of ideas, teeming with the paradoxes grooved into the edges and corners of the human subconscious.
From amongst the dark, wild chaos of Lutosławski’s Preludes and the overwhelming precision of Bach’s Art of Fugue comes the climactic full performance of Beethoven’s Grosse Fugue. Both celebrated and scorned, lauded and derided across its lifetime, this 21st-century reframing of the piece sheds new light on this epic composition.
Choreographed together, musicians move alongside dancers to create a palette of sight and sound that gleams with the grotesque and the glittering, the rational and the absurd.
Programme
Ludwig van Beethoven
Grosse Fugue
Plus extracts from
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fugue
Witold Lutosławski
Preludes and Fugue for 13 Solo Strings
You leave feeling as if you have gorged on the very stuff of life. Chaos, calm, disharmony, beauty, fear, connection, isolation – it’s all here, conveyed through music, movement or both.
The Scotsman *****
The Herald *****
Backtrack *****
Credits
Choreography
Örjan Andersson
Musical direction
Jonathan Morton
Production
Andersson Dance
Scottish Ensemble
Nordberg Movement
Costume design
Bente Rolandsdotter
Costume assistants
Klara Landin Larsson
Linnea From
Set and light design
Tobias Hallgren
Örjan Andersson
Set and light assistant
Joakim Ahlström
Lighting engineer
Ben Stimpson
Sound design and engineer
Jonathan Green
Additional sound design
BJ Nilsen
Supported by
Creative Scotland, The Swedish Arts Council, Stockholms Stad and Region Stockholm