Le Sacre

Choreography by MAURO BIGONZETTI

Music: IGOR STRAVINSKY
Costumes: KRISTOPHER MILLAR & LOIS SWANDALE
Set and lighting design:CARLO CERRI

“I had only my ear to help me. I heard and I wrote what I heard.
I am the vessel through which Le Sacre passed”

These words of Stravinsky suggest the strength of an idea that seeps into us, settles and eventually emerges.
This is the Sacre. We are born knowing it. It settles for years and uses our body as a vase. Then one day...
Mauro Bigonzetti

A co-production by Fondazione Nazionale della Danza/Aterballetto,
Festpielhaus und Festspiele  Baden Baden gGmbH  and Fondazione Teatro Comunale Modena.

Broadcasted by  3sat/ZDF

Costumes realization  Sartoria Aterballetto: Giuseppina Carbosiero, Nuvia Valestri

“Le Sacre du Printemps”: Publisher Boosey & Hawkes

Worldpremiere
Baden Baden (Germany), Festspielhaus
8 and 9 April  2011

Ballet for the entire Company
Length: 34 minutes