HELIKOPTER / LICHT (2025 Creation)
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Six propellers-dancer trace their trajectories across Stockhausen’s famous Helikopter-quartet. Holger Förterer’s videos projected onto the floor expose them to rotations of light. Angelin Preljocaj presents a radical, whirring dance before sharing his new creation, LICHT.
« Upon first hearing Helikopter Quartet’ by Karlheinz Stockhausen, the idea of creating a choreography to this music did not cross my mind at all since this work seemed to erode, at each turn of the helix, the actual foundations of a relationship between music and dance.
It is, in fact, for this reason that, on a second hearing, the jubilatory desire to confront the intertwining helix turbines and the glissandi of the Arditti Quatuor irrepressibly emerged.
The challenge of this creation is to expose six dancers to the wild, techno-organic rhythms of this piece by Stockhausen. »
Angelin Preljocaj