Forellenquintett

The film by Roger Bisson is the result of an elaborate ZDF television production, which was recorded in September 2012 at the Theater Duisburg: The Ballet on the Rhine danced only for the cameras that moved with the dancers on stage. Cheerfulness and lightness meet melancholy and bizarre things – the special proximity of the cameras ensures an amazingly lively ballet experience.

Martin Schläpfer‘s audience success “Forel Quintet” takes place in a forest, in a fairytale world reminiscent of Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream. The stage of Keso Dekker resembles a mysteriously shimmering place that becomes a meeting place for a wide variety of figures. Love couples meet and change partners at a rapid pace. Eragoblins, goblins and elves appear, and memories of Franz Schubert flash again and again, the scent of the Vienna Forest is in the room or the exuberant cheerfulness of a Heurigen. An angler and his trout unfolds a relationship full of brutal tenderness, similar to bizarre as the poet Schubert’s attempt to write his later so well-known poem “The Trout”.

Triple bill by Martin Schläpfer Nureyev Gala by Martin Schläpfer Mahler, Live by Martin Schläpfer Im siebten Himmel by Martin Schläpfer