The former director of the Frankfurt Ballet, William Forsythe rejoins the company that he knows well. With Undertainment, he imagines a score in which the performers evolve in a precise organisation that is permanently undergoing reconfiguration. From improvisation tools, patterns emerge, are transformed and are reconstituted, over and over, layering the choreography with surprising and unforeseeable decisions. Thomas Hauert, for his part, presents a playful dialogue with Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, in a version performed by Martha Argerich. Here dance is constructed in collective listening and intentions modulated in the moment, creating an organic flow, born by the leaps and bounds arising from the musical score. Between precision and continual inventiveness, dance in this work is resolutely a playground for these two choreographers, whose work engages in effervescent dialogue on stage for this shared performance.
Undertainment (37’) Création 2025 / Chorégraphie : William Forsythe / Danseur·euse·s : Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company / Assistante chorégraphique : Cyril Baldy / Répétitrice : Pauline Huguet / Conception lumière : Tanja Rühl / Costumes : Dorothee Merg / Coproduction : De Singel, Romaeuropa Festival / Avec le soutien de Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Playing with Sergei, Martha and the others (45’) Création 2025, reprise 2027 / Chorégraphie : Thomas Hauert / Danseur·euse·s : Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company / Assistante chorégraphique : Pauline Huguet / Dramaturgie : Philipp Scholtysik / Costumes : Thomas Hauert, Dorothee Merg / Avec le soutien de Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company est soutenue par la capitale politique Dresde et l'État libre de Saxe, la ville de Francfort-sur-le-Main et la région de Hesse. Compagnie en résidence à HELLERAU – Centre européen des arts à Dresde et au Bockenheimer Depot à Francfort-sur-le-Main.