PROMETHEUS - DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET

joined creation by Ernst Meisner, Remi Wortmeyer, Wubkje Kuindersma

Divine fire
In his entire career, Beethoven wrote only a single ballet: Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus – an allegorical ballet d’action composed in 1801 for the imperial court at Vienna. The music was well-received, but apart from a brief synopsis – Prometheus steals fire from the gods to give to two mortals – nothing of the choreography survives. In Beethoven, Dutch National Ballet presents the world première of a new, abstracted translation of the Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus. Following in the footsteps of the DNB’s original three ‘Vans’ and their 1975 co-creation Collective Symphony, Beethoven’s ballet will be recreated by a trio of rising young choreographers: Wubkje Kuindersma, Ernst Meisner and Remi Wörtmeyer.

Music: Ludwig van Beethoven
Dancers: Dutch National Ballet
Set+costumes: Tatyana van Walsum
Light-design: Carlo Cerri
Video-design: Alessandro Grisendi
Dramaturgy: Willem Bruls
Balletmasters: Sandrine Leroy, Judy Maelor Thomas
​Duration: circa 40min
Worldpremiere at Dutch National Ballet: 8th June 2021, Muziektheater Amsterdam


photos are of parts choreographed by Wubkje Kuindersma
photographer: Hans Gerritsen
dancers above: Floor Eimers and Timothy van Poucke

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