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Six dances
The piece to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Six German Dances” KV 571, like all the others is new and witty.
The piece to the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “Six German Dances” KV 571, like all the others is new and witty. Many of the 8 dancers’ actions are coarse and speedy , full of threats, unrest and absurdity. The men wear powdered periwigs above their naked torsi. The ladies are clothed in drastic skirts. And in the illumination of the spotlights, scintillating soap bubbles fall from the rigging loft in cascades down upon the dancers. The equally witty and bizarre scene is a winking paean and pomp, ending in clouds of wig powder and soap bubbles. Images full of humour and comedy prove once more what an imaginative, charismatic power Jiri Kilian possesses. The delicious humour of the piece moved numerous viewers and reviewers to remark that the Salzburg composer would have enjoyed it. Even if “Six Dances” appears to be no more than a sparklingly witty assembly of nonsense carried out in costumes designed by the choreographer himself, who calls them “Mozartian underwear”, there is still a dark, ominous undertone. As “The Scotsman” wrote: ” …that is what’s so wonderful about Kylian’s work: it is never quite what it seems to be.”
Source : Arthaus Musik
