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Alone • War • Liberation

  
    >>A dance tryptich about Freedom LIBERATION, National Socialism ALONE and War WAR.  
   

ALONE

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'Alone' will open with the Jiddish lament 'Es Brent'. This song, which has been composed by Moderchaj Gebirtig in 1937 in the ghetto of Przytyk, is about a ghetto on fire and refers among others to the synagogues and shops that burned during the Reichskristallnacht. It could also refer to the big fire of Rotterdam after the Nazi-borbardement of 1940. During this song, hundreds of autumn leaves will whirl down from heaven.

After this song, a female soloist enters the stage. The soloist wears men's clothes. She resembles one of the men from the painting ‘Pillars of the society' from George Grosz as she wears clothes from these notabilities. This painting is based on the theatre piece ‘Samfundets stutter' (1867) from Norwegian Henrik Ibsen. The classic balletdancer dances (tells), without music, the public, the melody, motif, harmony, metrum and rhythm with her moves in six different directions. As result the audience will be able to enjoy their own Muzik-erlebnis (Music-experience) when they see the dance, so that ballet can exist on itself and become 'Art Suprême' again.

Remark:

Music and dance have not often been separated, after Novalis denominated dance as the other half of music, at the beginning of the 19th century. Together with Schlegel, Tieck and Schelling he led the foundation of Wagner’s gesamtkunstwerk "Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft". As result that ballet dance lost its position of 'Art Suprême'. However, I am convinced with others that we can enjoy dance without music. The same as we can enjoy an isolated painting or sculpture.

The soloist dances on a stage full of autumn leaves. In contrast to many classical ballets she will only dance diagonal lines. With each step she forms a swastika, the symbol for rising National Socialism. When she realize this, she jumps frightened from the field of brown leaves onto a clean part of the stage where she has to dance in front of an huge mirror.

In this mirror she encounters a Gegner, an opponent. She instinctively attacks the opponent (reflection), who counter attacks at the same. The reflection is her own enlarge live projected video registration and ia beside a David and Goliath fight also a fight between sisters and brother, fathers, neighbours, countryman and finally Hitler who was schizophrenic.

After a period of continuous fighting, the fight escalates when the soloist on the stage finds an army helmet. She almost puts the helmet on her head, but at the last moment she changes her mind and throws the helmet into the mirror. The Reichskristallnacht in the night of November 9th – 10th 1938 is a fact.
Synopsis
Theme Dance Music Length
Antifascist Classic Singing 17 min

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Freedomballet FREE creates not only beauty but also incites discovery, stimulates reflection, and genearates self-knowledge. Eventually the dance-tryptich will increase understanding, exchange, and cooperation between governments, companies and people, in order to avoid war in the future. The 55 millions victims of the Second World War, the survivors and the generations after them deserve this.