Creation 2025

+ Helikopter

Double bill
2025 Creation
Choreography Angelin Preljocaj
World premiere April 10 2025 at Théâtre de la Ville, Paris (France)
Helikopter Création 2001
Piece for 6 dancers
Music Karlheinz Stockhausen, Helikopter-quartet’
Performed by Le Quatuor Arditti
Scenography Holger Förterer
Light design Patrick Riou
Costumes Sylvie Meyniel
Assistant, Deputy to the Artistic Direction Youri Aharon Van den Bosch
Rehearsal assistant Cécile Médour
Choreologist Dany Lévêque
Command of Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val-de-Marne 2001
Coproduction 2001 La Criée, Centre Dramatique National de Marseille ; Biennale Nationale de Danse du Val de Marne ; Maison des Arts et de la Culture de Créteil et du Val-de-Marne ; Groupe Partouche Casino Municipal Aix/Thermal ; Ballet Preljocaj
CréditS Photographies Jean-Claude Carbonne / Video © Julien Bengel

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.

« 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