Edward Clug - Peer Gynt

01.05.2025

Edward Clug, well known to Dortmund audiences for his poetic creation Hora and his brutally vital interpretation of Le Sacre du Printemps, spent several years working on the subject. "Believe in love, life is short! – We often realize this too late. We glance around at different places, constantly on the lookout for new sensory stimuli, and in doing so overlook the obvious, the one person with whom we could be happy. But: It's never too late to reflect!"

To the music of Edvard Grieg, Clug, known for his minimalist settings, stages this parable of egomaniacal desire for happiness, sensationalism, and blind self-promotion as an opulent and effective narrative ballet, conjuring up a sensory frenzy between flying carpets and straitjackets, only to then direct the enchanted gaze, all the more soberingly and clearly, to what it ultimately boils down to: What remains of someone who misses out on their own life?

"There are only a few choreographers who can still tell a story these days." (tanz.at)

"Edward Clug doesn't create ballet, but theater of a completely new dimension." (Wiener Zeitung)

Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, and the DIS-TANZ-START graduate funding program of the German Dance Federation.