Helikopter/Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) - Edinburgh Festival Guide

Helikopter/ Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied)

Ballet Preljocaj

Helikopter

Angelin Preljocaj Choreographer
Karlheinz Stockhausen Music
Holger Förterer Sceneography
Patrick Riou Lighting
Sylvie Meyniel Costume Designer

Inspired by the wild, techno-organic rhythms of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helikopter Quartet, a score composed for the vast whirring sound of four sets of helicopter propellers and four stringed instruments, Angelin Preljocaj creates a scintillating dance that sets immense physical challenges. Displaying incredible virtuosity, six dancers intertwine and rotate, echoing the blades of the helicopter in ever more complex forms and shapes.

Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied)

Angelin Preljocaj Choreographer
Karlheinz Stockhausen Music
Nicole Tran Ba Vang Set and costume designer
Cécile Giovansili and Angelin Preljocaj Lighting designers

Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) is another superb synergy between music and movement as choreographed by Preljocaj to music by Stockhausen. Trapped in a distinctive sound-world, the dancers respond to the music in an almost visceral way, compelled to move, as if against their will, by the cascading waves of sound, and only allowed to rest when the music ends.

Wednesday 22 August 7.30pm
The Edinburgh Playhouse
Tickets
£30 £27 £22 £17 £12 £10
1 hour 40 minutes approximately
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