MAHL3

mahl3

»My choreography to Mahler’s piano quartet depicts simply a short story about three people,
who desire to define themselves in relation to each other in an ongoing search for harmony.«
Wubkje Kuindersma

National Youth Ballet Germany / John Neumeier
Artistic director: Kevin Haigen
Choreography: Wubkje Kuindersma
Dancers: Maria del Mar Hernandez, Hélias Tur-Dorvault, Pascal Schmidt
Music: Gustav Mahler, life performed by musicians of the Festival Academy Heidelberger Frühling
Visual Art: telematique & u-matic / Sven Gareis & ute Härting
Premiere: 9th April 2015 at Music Festival Heidelberger Frühling, Hebelhalle Heidelberg.
Part of the full evening INFINITE IDENTITIES

Trailer Mahl3 : https://vimeo.com/125201401

Mahl3 has been performed amongst others in Germany, Denmark and China and it is still being performed with the National Youth Ballet at several stages.
It was danced at the 2016 TANZKONGRESS gala in Hannover.
Tim Rushton, the artistic director of Danish Dance Theatre invited the National Youth Ballet Germany to perform Mahl3 at Copenhagen Summer Dance Festival in 2016.
©photos: Silvano Ballone

reviews

¨....Another highlight before the break, is Wubkje Kuindersma's charming choreography Mahl3 which is danced to the music of Mahler, by three talented and expressive dancers from John Neumeier's junior company in Hamburg, das Bundesjugendballett. The tightly-shaped work of the award-winning Dutch choreographer, who danced a.o. with Danish Dance Theatre, shows quirky and with youthful zest, how three people define themselves in relation to each other....¨ (translated from danish)
BERLINGSKE - Vibeke Wern

¨... In the first part one should pay special attention to John Neumeier's Junior Company's version of Dutch Wubkje Kuindersma's Mahl3, which star-seduces to the music of Gustav Mahler in such degree, not the least because it breathes fervor and intensity in such degree that it reaches far beyond the stage...¨ (translated from danish)
BØRSEN - Lars Wallenberg (Copenhagen Summerdance 2016)

¨...From the choreography, I especially remembered the love story "Mahl3", excellently danced by Sara Ezzell, Artem Prokopchuk and Ricardo Urbina Reyes. Enthusiastic applause in the Hamburg Ernst-Deutsch-Theater.¨
Tanznetz - Ralf Reck( Im Aufschwung - Ernst Deutsch Theater Hamburg)

¨...Work number two of the guest company BundesJugendBallett is for me the night's dance highlight. Wubkje Kuindersma's inventive choreography with three dancers around a bench has reminiscences of, among other things, Petr Zuska and John Neumeier himself (BundesJugendBallett is his junior company). There are top-trained and technically sharp dancers, who dance on and with the bench to Mahler's very beautiful music. Here the time almost stood still in the Police Headquarters. Very captivating!¨ (translated from danish)
XQ28 - Perl ( Copenhagen Summer Dance 2016)

¨..Of the other highlights should also be mentioned the young dancers from Hamburg. The three young people take one through the entire emotion register. ¨ (translated from danish)
Ung theaterblod- Lisa Ludvigsen ( Copenhagen Summer Dance 2016)

¨..More life is in "Mahl3", where three dancers from the BundesJugendBallett test their strength with the award-winning Dutch choreographer Wubkje Kuindersma to the tones of Mahler's painful piano music.¨ (translated from danish)
CPHCulture ( Copenhagen Summer Dance 2016)

¨...Guest performance from Hamburg. Also in the evening's next work, "Mahl 3", there is also first a woman and a man drawn to each other in a flirt and at the same time circle around a bench. Another man comes and a power struggle is felt in the expressive and sculpturally subtle dance. The Dutch choreographer Wubkje Kuindersma, who is the maker of the work for the dancers from the Hamburg Ballet's junior company, has chosen Mahler's piano quartet for this, and she describes her work with the words: "A story of three people who define themselves in relation to each other in the hope to achieve inner harmony. " In this way, both cohesion marks the three young talented dancers between themselves and inner conflict with itchy thighs around the bench, which serve as screen, venue, podium, hideaway and chair. Exciting dance and talented young dance talent.¨
DANS ONline / Terpsichore Susanne Trudsø ( Copenhagen Summer Dance 2016)