Mirabell

Mirabell is a breathtakingly beautiful Baroque garden in Salzburg which entranced visitors with its beauty even in Mozart’s time. The ballet Mirabell is a garden of the imagination, filled with flowers that take root in the soul and musical world of Mozart. This musical world is an expression of human qualities such as beauty, love, drama, genuine childlike joy, humour, refined elegance and grace, intelligence, and even carefree playfulness and philosophical ideas. These things, and the otherwise invisible ideas and emotions that radiate from the music of Mozart, are evoked in this ballet in the language of dance.

Six Dances

Two centuries separate us from the time Mozart wrote his German Dances, a historical period shaped considerably by wars, revolutions, and all sorts of social upheavals. With this in mind, I found it impossible to simply create different dance numbers reflecting merely the humour and musical brilliance of the composer. Instead, I have set six seemingly nonsensical acts which obviously ignore their surroundings. They are dwarfed in the face of the ever-present troubled world, which most of us for some unspecified reason carry in our souls. Although the entertaining quality of Mozart’s Sechs Tänze enjoys great general popularity, it shouldn’t only be regarded as a burlesque. Its humour ought to serve as a vehicle to point towards our relative values.' (Jiří Kylián)

Presented by: National Dance Theatre