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Without Wordsballet in one act Music: Franz Schubert Choreography: Nacho Duato Sets and Costumes: Nacho Duato Light Design: Brad Fields (based on the original idea of Nacho Duato) Choreographer's Assistants: Thomas Klein, Gentian Doda World première: American Ballet Theater at the City Center in New York, 29 October 1998 Russian première: Mikhailovsky Theatre, 15 March 2011 Running time: 30 minutes Without Words is Nacho Duato’s second work for the prestigious American Ballet Theater company. The title refers to Schubert’s songs scores, which are instrumental music, music without words. As in the songs, the choreographer strips the dancing of any evident romantic atmosphere. Love and death appear as the central subjects derived from the music. A new world, with all its possibilities, is revealed in a dark existential scenographic space typical of the 20th century. Duato shows a universal vital cycle in all its spontaneity, free of unnecessary alignments and ornaments.
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1833–2012 Mikhailovsky Theatre St. Petersburg
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