Four Reasons & Minus 16
Four Reasons & Minus 16
Music: Milko Lazar and other composers and performers
The ballet evening Four Reasons & Minus 16 presents a contrasting yet dramaturgically considered encounter between two contemporary choreographic poetics, united by a pronounced musical sensitivity, corporeal intelligence, and a powerful stage presence. The first half of the evening reveals the restrained, contemplative world of Edward Clug; the second, the eruptive and physically charged energy of the Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin. It is precisely in this movement from inner concentration to openly performative force that the conceptual axis of the evening takes shape.
Clug’s choreography Four Reasons, created in 2008 for the Portuguese National Ballet, is a work of purified form and refined theatrical sensibility. Developed in collaboration with the composer Milko Lazar, it emerged as a choreographic meditation foregrounding the relationship between body, time, rhythm, and space. The production is endowed with a particular intimacy by its live musical performance, as movement and sound arise in a shared and immediate breath. An entirely different experience is offered by Minus 16, one of Ohad Naharin’s most recognisable works. The choreography is permeated by his celebrated movement language, Gaga, which emphasises bodily sensitivity, impulsiveness, responsiveness, and freedom, while at the same time dissolving the boundary between performer and spectator and creating, through its raw, witty, and direct energy, an exceptionally powerful stage effect.
The evening thus opens up a broad spectrum of contemporary ballet and at the same time marks an important repertory step for the Maribor Ballet, which, with Naharin’s choreography, will for the first time engage with one of the key figures of contemporary dance theatre.
Ondina Otta Klasinc Haal
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