September 25th 2021 at 8 p.m.
theaterHALLE11
Blue prince black sheep (2018)
Dying Swan (1905/2019)
Amancio Gonzalez (ES)
Austrian premiere
Performance
Photo: Günter Krämmer
Trailer
Blue prince black sheep is about ageing, queerness, hybrid masculinity and the dogmas of classical ballet, but is also about a boy, a black sheep among swans, who dreams of a career as a prima ballerina.
Amancio Gonzalez has been dancing all over the world for more than thirty years, mainly under the direction of William Forsythe, an outstanding choreographer of the 20th century. In Blue prince black sheep, the Fiftyplus learns to dance on pointe. He asks colleagues for discarded pointe shoes – a whole mountain of them serves as his source of inspiration. Together with the choreographer Carlotta Sagna, he develops a dance monologue between dream, memory, pain, mortifications, rejoicing and triumph.
As an encore, Amancio Gonzalez interprets the legendary solo The Dying Swan (1905) choreographed by Michail Fokine for the ballet icon Anna Pavlova to the music of Camille Saint-Saëns.
Performance: Amancio Gonzalez
Light design: Ulli Stephan
Production: Festspielhaus Hellerau Dresden, Unterwegs Theater Heidelberg
Sponsored by: Federal government for culture and media, culture and art ministries of the federal states
Supported by: National performance network for guest performance in dance
This event is part of the series DANCE AROUND THE CLOCK: seven events will take place across the city on Saturday, September 25th between 12 a.m. and 11 p.m.
12.00 p.m. Lunch table
(Socializing, Hafenstadt)
4.00 p.m. Naked Life
(Performance, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt)
5.00 p.m. Artistic talk
(Talk, Künstlerhaus Klagenfurt)
6.30 p.m. A Sea of Being
(Guided tour, Hafenstadt)
8.00 p.m. Blue prince black sheep
(Performance, theaterHALLE11)
9.00 p.m. Artistic talk
(Talk, theaterHALLE11)
9.30 p.m. Zone-out
(Music, theaterHALLE11)