Claude Pascal | KYLIAN

In Claude Pascal, the cast of dancers is clearly divided into two groups. One group represents a strange family dressed in historic costumes from around 1890. I use Puccini as a historical reference. They have nothing to do with the other group of dancers, wearing contemporary costumes and dancing to music of today. Claude Pascal is a tragicomic encounter between the past and the present - only to make us realize that in the future we also will become the past... (Jiří Kylián)

"Claude Pascal" | KYLIAN
Choreography and text: Jirí Kylián
Assistants to the choreographer: Lorraine Blouin, Urtzi Aranburu
Music: Dirk Haubrich, new composition (2002). "Crisantemi" quartet extract from Puccini
Texts: Jiri Kylian
Sets: Jirí Kylián
Costumes: Joke Visser
Light, technical Supervisior: Kees Tjebbes
Duration: 30 min

World Premier by the Nederlands Dans Theater on May 29th 2002, Lucent Danstheater, Den Haag
Premiere by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, on July 14th 2022, Grimaldi Forum Monaco