The Long Christmas dinner/ Women in D Moll

The Long Christmas Dinner is a ballet-reflection on the transience of life, examining the vain and futile deeds that fill the precious minutes, hours, and years of our time on Earth. The production traces ninety years in the life of an aristocratic family, unfolding through a series of Christmas dinners. Holiday after holiday, the destinies of the characters dissolve into oblivion like mayflies, leaving nothing behind.

The vibrant, grotesque choreography set to Vivaldi's music reaches the heart of every viewer and raises the question—without moralizing—of how we differ from the characters on stage. The play The Long Christmas Dinner by Pulitzer Prize-winning American playwright Thornton Wilder continues to be featured in the repertoires of various dramatic theaters across Europe and the United States, and it has inspired a film as well as an opera by composer Paul Hindemith.

Women in D Minor is a performance imbued with reverence for the genius of J.S. Bach. Radu Poklitaru tells a tragic story of a non-existent female friendship, which serves merely as an excuse for the unfolding of unusually intricate multi-figured compositions and piercing duet fragments.

Watch the video about the making of the performance HERE.

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