In the performance ‹OTTETTO (8 Swings for His Highness)›, Igor Stravinsky's exceptional 16-minute composition ‹Octet› from 1923 is broken down into its individual parts by Iztok Kovač. At the time of its creation ‹Octet› was generally considered to be a bad joke, but from a contemporary perspective, it is seen as ground-breaking and heralds the beginning of a new era. Kovač investigates the composition from different angles and analyses the relationships of the participating artists. He discovers new ways to approach this work and reassembles the individual pieces into a performance consisting of dance, music and acting. The movements of the dancers are based on the analysis of the voices of the individual instruments. It is quite obvious that ‹Octet› is still a musical work of great importance and timeless quality. Five dancers, eight musicians, the conductor Živa Ploj Peršuh and three visual artists will present the impressive result.
Performance ‹OTTETTO. 8 SWINGS FOR HIS HIGHNESS›