Flashlights flash, spotlights shine. Music thumps. Bodies rotate. Loud and furious, until all suddenly falls silent. Cellos resound, accompanying the soft steps of the dancers of the Coburg Landestheater in the Globe, as they interpret David Campos' and Irene Sabas' choreography Rock Requiem with elegance, anger, and aesthetics. The danced symbiosis of Catholic requiem mass and heavy metal is the program item of the four-part ballet evening Kaleidoscope representing not so much the remembrance of the deceased, but an exploration of the self. Steps and figures of classical ballet alternate with impulsive movements of moderniy and merge with one another.
Luis Tena Torres' Horror Vacui deals with the exploration of the self as well. A person dressed in white stands on the stage, moving like a ...
