BARBE BLEUE / PROGRAMME / Garnier / Juin 2024
Description
In a castle whose floor is covered in dead leaves, a man compulsively turns on a tape recorder. Surrounded by figures that haunt him, he listens, rewinds and listens again to the music of Bluebeard.
Created in 1977, Pina Bausch's piece, which enters the Ballet's repertoire this season, transforms Bartók's opera into a wild and intense ritual: that of a man confronting his will to power, his desires and his fantasies.
Perrault's original fairy tale is the inspiration for this major piece of dance theatre. Men and women throw themselves into a choreography that reveals the violence and absurdity of human relationships.
The compulsive nature of desire becomes a principle of writing: locked in a series of gestures repeated to the point of exhaustion or explosion, the tragic characters imagined by Pina Bausch lead us into a breathless world where seduction and domination merge.
Product information
- Publication Year
- 2024
- Technical specification
- Duration : 1h50 no interval