Helikopter

Inspired by the wild, techno-organic rhythms of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Helikopter Quartet, a score composed for the vast whirring sound of four sets of helicopter propellers and four stringed instruments, Angelin Preljocaj creates a scintillating dance that sets immense physical challenges. Displaying incredible virtuosity, six dancers intertwine and rotate, echoing the blades of the helicopter in ever more complex forms and shapes.

Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied)

Eldorado (Sonntags Abschied) is another superb synergy between music and movement as choreographed by Preljocaj to music by Stockhausen. Trapped in a distinctive sound-world, the dancers respond to the music in an almost visceral way, compelled to move, as if against their will, by the cascading waves of sound, and only allowed to rest when the music ends.