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Webern Opus V
Recreated under the direction of Gil Roman.
Maurice Béjart’s work is one of fascinating magnitude and diversity. Webern opus V, created in 1966, illustrates Béjart’s passion for the music of his century and presents clear choreographic writing that has been stripped bare and whose abstraction has its roots in the purest academic vocabulary. This is Maurice Béjart’s third ballet, created to music by Webern, following on from the Temps and Suite viennoise, composed in 1961 to Opus 6 and Opus 10. The music of Opus 5 presents itself without concessions, austere, stripped bare, and Maurice Béjart responds to it with an ever-so refined scenography and simple costumes that embrace the forms of the body. The intensity and lyricism that emanates from this pas de deux, is born out of this optimal use of resources. The work has no narrative spine. Through its forms, it conjures up the theme – dear to Maurice Béjart – of the complementarity of the sexes and the quest for the absolute within the couple.
Source : Maison de la Danse – Programme
