Name: Schmetterling & Silent Screen
Start: 2023-11-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-28T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Nationaltheater

Organization

Bayerische Staatsoper

Set designer

Sol León

Paul Lightfoot

Costume designer

Joke Visser

Hermien Hollander

Lighting designer

Tom Bevoort

Video

Projizierte Fotografien

Rahi Rezvani

Stage director

Choreography by

Répétiteur

Ema Yuasa

Jorge Nozal

Rupert Tookey

Roger Van der Poel

Lorraine Blouin

Filmrealisation

Dicky Schuttel

Metropolis Film

Ballet

Bayerischen Staatsballett

Schmetterling & Silent Screen

Munich

Germany

Nationaltheater

Schmetterling & Silent Screen: Ballet Various

Public

Approved

SCHMETTERLING
Choreographie und Bühne	- Sol León, Paul Lightfoot
Musik - Magnetic Fields, Max Richter
Kostüme - Joke Visser, Hermien Hollander
Licht - Tom Bevoort
Projizierte Fotografien - Rahi Rezvani

SILENT SCREEN
Choreographie, Bühne, Kostümdesign und Filmkonzept - Sol León, Paul Lightfoot 
Musik - Philip Glass
Kostümrealisation - Joke Visser, Hermien Hollander
Licht - Tom Bevoort
Filmrealisation - Metropolis Film, Dicky Schuttel

Deutsch

The two-part ballet evening Butterfly combines two choreographies by Sol León and Paul Lightfoot, Silent Screen and Butterfly , which are among the formative works of their oeuvre. The successful artistic working group of the two dance professionals dates back to 1989. Together they have created more than 60 world premieres for the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT), where they were house choreographers from 2002 to 2020.

The Bavarian State Ballet is the first company to rehearse Silent Screen and Butterfly outside of the NDT. Both works, which are being shown together for the first time, are characterized by the unmistakable dance language of Sol León and Paul Lightfoot. She is characterized by technical sophistication and a strong sense of theatricality. All steps, gestures and figures are based on an emotional attitude, a narrative content or a poetic idea. As a result, human existence unfolds in both ballets as a specific experiential space that spans between the love of life and the consciousness of death.

For the choreography Silent Screen, which premiered in 2005 , Sol León and Paul Lightfoot were inspired, among other things, by silent films, which, like ballet, are about interpersonal but not verbal communication. A man and a woman lead the dance dialogue, which revolves around the emotional phases of a couple relationship. Different figures appear in other scenes, commenting on or reflecting the story of the couple in ambiguous images. The scenes follow less a coherent story than a dream logic and are translated by the ensemble to instrumental works by the American composer Philip Glass.

In the second half of the ballet evening, the eponymous choreography Butterfly from 2010 can be seen. This ballet was also premiered at the NDT. The term "butterfly" symbolizes transience, beauty, life, death and transformation. The work begins with the relationship between a mother and her son. He is confronted with her death. This is joined by a group of other characters who express human existence in a thoughtful, humorous and sarcastic way in the dance movements. The music that is used in Butterfly comes from Max Richter on the one hand. On the other hand is a selection of the 69 Love Songsby the indie rock band The Magnetic Fields. The absurd, sad, sarcastic, passionate, yearning and human element of an emotional world in which love in all its shades forms the energetic center can be heard in these songs.

English

Schmetterling & Silent Screen by Various, From (2023/2024), Directed by Sol León, Paul Lightfoot,, Nationaltheater, Munich, Germany

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