Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness
ballet in two acts
music by Johann Sebastian Bach
Cast
The ballet Multiplicity. Forms of Silence and Emptiness is one of Nacho Duato’s best-known works. It immediately caught the attention of the critics and brought its creator the prestigious Benois de la Dance prize. The ballet was composed in 1999 for the theatre in Weimar, where Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked for several years. It is Bach’s music that forms the basis of Duato’s work, in which he tells the story of the great composer’s life and work through the medium of eurhythmic dance. The two-act ballet is a combination of baroque music and modern choreography. It is virtually a biography and, unlike most of Nacho Duato’s ballets, which have no plot, features specific characters — the Composer, the Woman, and Death. The audience accompanies the characters through the main stages of the composer’s life and observes the miraculous creation of the music of a genius.
Premiere of the production: 21 March 2012
- Choreography, Staging, and CostumesNacho Duato
- Stage DesignJaffar Chalabi
- Lighting DesignerBrad Fields
- Costume TechnologyAlla Marusina
- Musical Director of the productionMikhail Tatarnikov
- Assistants to ChoreographerTony Fabre, Thomas Klein
