Ballet Evening: Uwe Scholz & Tiit Helimets

O wydarzeniu

The Ballet Company of the Estonian National Opera presents its "Ballet Evening" with choreographies by Tiit Helimets (world premiere) and Uwe Scholz.

"Time"
Choreographer: Tiit Helimets
Composer: Paula Matthusen
Libretto: Tiit Helimets after the poem by Abi Basch
World premiere on October 1, 2011 at the Estonian National Opera

Tiit Helimets will stage a ballet about "Time" that will make people think about how they use their time. How does our life change with "Time"? How do we change with "Time"? What will "Time" bring us and how do we see IT? Every second is important and every minute lost makes us panic, an hour feels too long and it seems that we are wasting our "Time"…

Paula Matthusen is a composer of electro acoustic music who collaborates with choreographers and theatre companies in creating and designing productions. In addition she realizes sound installations. Her work often considers discrepancies in musical space – real, imagined, and remembered.

Abi Basch is a playwright and director whose work has been produced in the U.S. by renowned companies and festivals. Abi is a core member of kInDeRdEuTsCh pRoJeKtS, a German/American physical theater company that generates movement‐based multi‐media plays and performance installations based on her scripts.


"Symphony No. 2"
Choreographer and designer: Uwe Scholz
Composer: Robert Schumann
Lighting designer: Tiit Urvik
Staging: Daniel Otevrel (Leipziger Ballett)
World premiere at the Zurich Opera Theatre on March 10, 1990
Premiere at the Estonian National Opera on November 26, 2009

The abstract, emotionally deep and musically sensitive choreography by Uwe Scholz (1958–2004), one of the most famous European choreographers, is recognised all over the world. His choreography to Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 is characterised by interpretation of romantic music in the language of movements, making use of the strict structure of academic dance as well as the impulses triggered by the sensitivity of human soul.