With its archaic primal force, Igor Stravinsky's dance cantata Les Noces is the starting point for Angelin Preljocaj's eponymous choreography from 1989, which reinterprets a Russian peasant wedding as the appropriation of women through forced marriage. The energy of the percussively hammering music pulsates through the bodies and the expansive, space-filling movements of the first-rate dancers of the Saarbrücken company, who bring the encounter and struggle of the sexes vividly to life.
In front of a video installation by Michael Koob, based on the painting Altes Welt-Bild by the Saarland artist Till Neu, African rituals unfold to Saa Magni, the most famous song by the West African singer Oumou Sangaré, as well as to Philip Glass’s Paul is Dying and Serra Pelada. A singer stages her body ...
