Abstract
The Corpus ballet evening focuses on the encounter between Ballett Zürich and our “Orchestra La Scintilla,” which performs on historical instruments. The successful choreographers Douglas Lee and Filipe Portugal embark on a musical journey, taking baroque compositions as their inspiration for the creation of world premieres.
The English choreographer Douglas Lee enthusiastically inspired the Zurich audience with his work A-Life and Aria. To the music of Antonio Vivaldi and the contemporary American composer Michael Gordon, he now follows the footsteps of the famous painting The Lady with the fan of Diego Velásquez.
Filipe Portugal has made a name for himself not only as a charismatic soloist of the Ballett Zürich, but has also choreographed for several years. In his last creation, he has been inspired by the music of the Bach sons Carl Philipp Emanuel and Wilhelm Friedemann in his ballet Dialogos in the previous season, inspired by jazz sounds by Nik Bärtsch. The musical direction is in the hands of the English baroque specialist Christopher Mold.