No More Play

The basic idea for this choreography is inspired by a small 
sculpture of Alberto Giacometti: a simple, slightly deformed 
board-game with little craters and ditches and two pieces 
of wood resembling human figures.

One might feel like having been invited to a game, the rules of 
which are being kept secret, or have never been determined. 
But as you begin to play this mysterious game, you start to 
learn its laws (only sometimes too late).

Anton Webern’s music has a fascinating feeling of essentiality 
and inevitability. 

Its sound and structure create captivating transparency and 
dynamic tension.

These qualities assembled by Webern’s uncompromising genius 
become a source of energy which has a direct influence on 
anything that might be simultaneously happening on stage.

The seriousness of much of what we set out to undertake, 
often results in no more than a grotesque grimace, but it 
should be accepted as such, and become a valid part of 
our being. So this choreographic play of bodies, mind, sound 
and light in time and space is merely a metaphor of a game 
with extremely severe rules, which someone wrote in a long 
forgotten language.

                    Jiří Kylián