Hessian State Ballet shows Eyal and Xie

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One work, “Untitled Black”, in 2012 marked the transition of the now highly successful Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal from an outstanding dancer and later choreographer for the Batsheva Dance Company to her own cosmos. And anyone who missed it last season, when the piece was rehearsed for the first time in autumn 2020 by a company other than Eyal’s own LEV, now gets a second chance. Because it is not only extremely interesting in itself to see something earlier after all of Eyal’s new works, which were created at the Staatstheater Mainz, among other places. There’s a lot there, the unison dancing and the almost imperceptible changes in the group, the music by Ori Lichtik, the sophisticated lighting, but you can sense even more historical lines, remembering some scenes of Nijinsky’s Faun, round dances or “Sacre”. . And Maayan Goldman’s artificial black and white costumes, reminiscent of classical modernism, have given way to simpler ones today.

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