9.2 - Cas Public

Perceive, experience, understand. Together, Helene Blackburn and Cai Glover delve back into this breathtaking epic to embrace the full immensity of one of the greatest masterpieces of the classical repertoire: Beethoven's Ninth Symphony . In this version, where rigor continues to guide beauty, sight and hearing are temporarily set aside to give way to the pure magic of dance. The physical choreography explores the emotions we ascribe to inanimate objects and how these objects can fill the gaps that our disabilities—no matter how significant—create between us and reality. Blackburn brilliantly transmits the work to Glover, who remains one of its talented performers, but also becomes co-artistic director and responsible for subsequent revivals, bringing her own perspective to the choreographer's revolutionary ideas. Beethoven's reimagined music is molded to a contemporary, physical vocabulary, evolving within a setting where the light plays tricks on us. A daring journey of sensations, 9.2 connects with…