Undertainment + Playing with Sergei, Martha and the others

The former director of the Frankfurt Ballet, William Forsythe rejoins the company that he knows well. With Undertainment, he imagines a score in which the performers evolve in a precise organisation that is permanently undergoing reconfiguration. From improvisation tools, patterns emerge, are transformed and are reconstituted, over and over, layering the choreography with surprising and unforeseeable decisions. Thomas Hauert, for his part, presents a playful dialogue with Rachmaninov’s Third Piano Concerto, in a version performed by Martha Argerich. Here dance is constructed in collective listening and intentions modulated in the moment, creating an organic flow, born by the leaps and bounds arising from the musical score. Between precision and continual inventiveness, dance in this work is resolutely a playground for these two choreographers, whose work engages in effervescent dialogue on stage for this shared performance.