Prague

In its March premiere of Avant-Garde, the Prague National Theatre Ballet presented two new works tailored to the company by renowned creators: Polish choreographer Robert Bondara and the eccentrically creative Marco Goecke. The program, completed by Jiří Kylián’s 27’52” (2002), does not so much bring avant-garde, rather a technically refined evening in which the clock of mortality ticks away and the characters search for meaningful relationships.

Robert Bondara’s pure neo-classical 4 Seasons are set to Max Richter’s reimagining of Vivaldi. It is not only seasons, rather the cycle of human life that interests the choreographer. A memento of finite life is always present: the figure of an old woman (portrayed by the distinctive ballet mistresses and former soloists of the company) enters ...