As of: March 29, 2024, 7:07 p.m
By: Volker Camehn
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Large stage for 150 children and young people in the Unterhachinger Kubiz. Preparation for the unusual event takes over a year © Egginger
The preparation took over a year, and now 900 visitors applauded the elaborate dance performance with 150 children and young people on stage at the Kubiz in Unterhaching.
Unterhaching
– The picture is always a snapshot, the focus of an action on the moment, a pause. And it shows: what was, what will be, what could be. A performance by the students of the Unterhaching Ballet Center “Pirouette” has now freed these frozen moments from their art-immanent torpor. Under the motto "Dance Pictures - a dance-based art journey", 18 paintings by well-known artists were presented at three performances at the Kubiz, including works by Claude Monet ("Water Lilies"), Paul Klee ("Magic Fish", "A Child's Play"), Frieda Kahlo (" Self-portrait”) and Pablo Picasso (“Lobster with Siphon”), implemented in movement, i.e. “danced”, as the program notes it somewhat arrhythmically.
Actually, it would have remained unspectacular if this approach had been used. However, the concept went further, as a moving tour was presented here, with a very unique interpretation and imagination: between the individual "paintings" the dance performance led in so-called promenades from picture to picture, comparable to strolling through exhibitions: pausing, consider, move on. The whole thing, it seemed, was also inspired by Mussorgsky's piano cycle “Pictures at an Exhibition”. Expression in a different way. The dance performance was not just an imagined tour of the museum and not an implementation of music in movement. Here the dancers moved content, stories and sometimes even the images behind the images.
Classical ballet and tap dancing
A colorful and strict dance: the 150 children and young people between the ages of five and 18 mainly implemented elements from classical ballet and tap dance. The performances were each a good 100 minutes long; A total of 900 spectators attended this unusual event in the cultural center.
An event that required a certain amount of preparation: “I had the idea for this program about a year and a half ago. The motto appealed to me because I wanted to introduce my students to classical paintings,” explains Alexandra Bogner, head of the ballet school. That was probably successful: Bogner had once studied art history himself. She spent a year preparing the young dancers for this production, who learned so much about the works. For example, the topic of “Cubism” according to Picasso was discussed in detail and even pictures were created for it. Consequence: These new snapshots are now on display in the ballet center.