The Tempest
Purcell, Tallis, Johnson, Locke, van der Aa / Krzysztof Pastor
Ballet in two acts after William Shakespeare
Music: Henry Purcell, Thomas Tallis, Robert Johnson, Matthew Locke, Michel van der Aa and traditional Iranian music
World premiere: 18 June 2014, Het Nationale Ballet, Amsterdam
Polish premiere: 9.04.2016, Polish National Ballet, Warsaw
Co-produced by: Het Nationale Ballet
A storm that you do not need to run away from is a rare occurrence, yet one has just hit the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. The source the Polish National Ballet is tapping is obviously Shakespeare's The Tempest, the Bard's late work and the only one that adheres to the unity of time, place and action. At first it was taken to be a comedy – well, some do say that comedy equals tragedy plus time. The first, highly memorable, scene featuring human figures emerging from the sea is doomed to be interpreted in the context of the current international situation. Let us then restate some general truths: where did life come to land after all? The globalisation we got is not the globalisation we all wanted, but Krzysztof Pastor's ballet does sweeten the pill. It successfully draws on different orders, epochs and registers of culture. In the musical sphere, the Iranian daf frame drum takes the pride of place, while the poignant visualisations are the work of a duo of Iranian artists. The tempest created by Pastor and his collaborators is excellent: coherent, beautiful and escaping simplistic interpretations. The ballet will undoubtedly go down a storm.
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