Bella Figura - Jiří Kylián (NDT 1 | Celebrating an evening with Jiří Kylián!)

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) | Jiří Kylián's piece 'Bella Figura’ for the NDT 1 programme ‘Celebrating an evening with Jiří Kylián!’. https://www.ndt.nl/en/agenda/celebrat...

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The idea of Bella Figura (1995) is a parable on the relativity of sensuality, beauty, and aesthetics. In Italian, “Bella Figura” doesn’t only stand for “beautiful figure”, but also represents the resilience of people facing a difficult situation, or “putting on a brave face”. About this work, Kylián says: “For a long time, I have asked myself: What is a performance, and who are the performers? When does the performance begin or end? (…) Where is the border between art and artificiality, between the truth and a lie? I am interested in this world “in between”, just before a performance begins, when the dancers start changing from private persons into performers. It is a world in which all kinds of realities merge in an unpredictable and surreal way.”

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