The dancers of the Junior Ballet will present three exciting choreographies during an evening designed especially for them. In the pieces by Douglas Lee, rich in associations and frequently set in limbo, both protagonists and spectators should never be quite sure of themselves. In his ballet, IRIS, the British choreographer focuses on processes of seeing and perception. In Solitude, Christian attempts to describe an emotion. Solitude does not necessarily have to mean loneliness. It can be revealed even in the renunciation of one’s own individuality within the group. Under a swinging pendulum and to baroque arias from Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Vivaldi, a seductive space of sound and movement is revealed. In Bellulus, Stephan Thoss, Ballet Director at the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden, throws a fondly ironic glance at the well-trodden paths of the operatic repertoire and everyday life in the theatre, which would benefit from a little more willingness to take risks and greater pleasure in innovation. Beneath lacklustre chandeliers, personified operatic arias bask in the reflection of past glory. They doze flaccidly on an oversized plush sofa, and only the irrepressibly catchy melodies of Puccini, Bizet or Offenbach manage to animate their brittle old bones…