To make classical music more accessible to younger audiences, Eric Gauthier devised a program called Radical Classical for his six juniors and two interns, which has a subtly seductive quality and awakens interest in a rather indirect way.
The head of Gauthier Dance whets the appetite for music by showing short film portraits before each choreography, conveying some of the enthusiasm that a singer, a violin maker, a conductor, or a drummer feels when practicing their craft. There is constant talk of harmony, even more so of a merging of art and body, which really only needs to be made visible. And Andreas Heise provides this right at the beginning with Johann Strauss's "Voices of Spring," even if Sascha Thomsen almost makes the physicality of the choreography disappear again under the ...
