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FREE is a dance triptych about rising National Socialism, Second World War and liberation (s). In 2005 we want to realize the freedom ballet FREE as billions worldwide celebrate liberation. After the premiere and tour we would like to present the ballet throughout the world. Becuase our freedom today is our responsibility for tomorrow and this does not stop at our borders! That is why the freedom ballet FREE creates not only beauty but also incites discovery, stimulates reflection, and generates self-knowledge. Eventually this will increase international understanding, exchange, and cooperation between governments, companies and people, in order to avoid war in the future.
Alone
Alone opens with the Jiddisch Song ‘Es Brent” (1938) of M. Gebirtig. This lament is about synagogues and shops which have been put on fire during the Reichskristallnacht. Hundreds of autumn leaves whirl down from heaven. After that a Classic female dancer enters the stage. She dances (tells) the melody, motif, harmony, metrum and rhythm. This gives the audience its own unique Muzik-erlebnis when they see the dance. The soloist dances on the leaves inch by inch a swastika. When she realizes this, she jumps frightened aside and starts to dance in front of a huge mirror. Instinctively she attacks her own extra large beamed reflection which counter attacks at the same time. This ‘David and Goliath’ fight escalates when the soloist finds an army helmet. She almost puts the helmet on, but she changes her mind and throws the helmet into the mirror. The Kristallnacht is a fact.
Theme Dance Music Length
Antifascist Classic Singing 17 min
WAR
War opens with the ‘Leningrad Symphony’ of D. Shostakovich. Instead of the mirror black and white photos about World War II are beamed on the wall. We see four dancers in black uniforms (Nasi’s) and after a few minutes four new dancers in green uniforms (Allies) enter the stage. All Modern dancers carry the same mask. They represent anonymous soldiers who eventually die all. Like in each war there are no winners. When a dancer dies, a beam of light with a hook in it comes down from heaven. The dying dancer hangs his mask and uniform on the hook, spreads his forearms like a cross and gets raised upon his knees. Whereupon the soul (uniform and mask) leave the body. The last two dancers are well-matched and after an exhausting life-and-death duet they kill each other. Finally, the eight killed dancers form a military cemetery.
Theme Dance Music Length
Antiwar Modern Classic 27 min
LIBERATION
Liberations opens with World-Pop music. We see liberation movies and a ruin on the background. A DJ mixes the films: liberation of Amsterdam, capitulation of Japan, abolition of apartheid, peace agreement Camp David, revolution of Georgia, etc. and the music as a flash to the audience. In the meantime the dancers dance, sing, fight, cry, pray, laugh, work and admire. After a while the dancers begin to fight against each other. The group dancers from WAR expel the soloist from ALONE as a collaborator, betrayer or Nazi. The eight dancers dance Ethnic now and they start to build a dividing wall from the ruin. The fully isolated Classic soloist knows how to transform herself after an exhausted fight into an Ethnic dancer. Shortly after this the soloist gets incorporated by the group and finally they break down the wall together and celebrate freedom.
Theme Dance Music Length
Freedom Ethnic / Modern World / Pop 25 min