Via Negativa
The Ninth
ca. 65 min
without words
Dance | Performance
In coproduction with JaJaJa NeNeNe Association Warsaw | Partner: Bunker Ljubljana, A Part Festival Katowice, Fundacja Ciało/Umysł Warsaw | Supported by City of Ljubljana and the Ministery for Culture and National Heritage, Poland
Performance: Anita Wach, Kristina Aleksova, Magdalena Tuka, Loup Abramovici, Grega Zorc |Idea: Via Negativa | Concept, Artistic director: Bojan Jablanovec | Assistance choreography: Anita Wach | Music: Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony No. 9 / Herbert von Karajan, Berliner Philharmoniker, 1983 | Lighting design: Igor Remeta | Masks: Barbara Stupica | Video: Ana Čigon | Production manager: Špela Trošt | PR: Sara Horžen
“The Ninth“ by Via Negativa, directed by Bojan Jablanovec, questions the power of music and its abuse. Five performers gallop through the entire sound landscape of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, a masterpiece of the western civilization. In the middle of this striking example of human spirit, there is humankind. Naked and suspicious. Not complex but reduced. Nothing great about it. Nothing triumphant. There’s no difference between man and horses.
