The Göteborg Opera
will perform the World Premiere of the choreography The Boxman by Choreographer Fernando Melo, dancer from the Göteborg Ballet.
The music for this choreography are the 4th and the 7th symphony of Avet Terterian, which will be performed live at all performances.
The second part of the evening will be the choreography Röd/Quartet #8 with music by Dmitrij Shostakovitch.
The premiere will be February 23, 2008 and the last performance will be April 13, 2008.
The program is announced at the website of Göteborg Opera:
An evening of ballet in two parts with works by Fernando Melo and Örjan Andersson.
Music by Terterjan and Shostakovich, with the Göteborg Opera Orchestra.
Who is watching whom? When someone sees you, you exist. Sometimes it feels more comfortable to watch than to be watched. In ”Boxman” Fernando Melo plays with the concept of identity. Melo is fascinated by anonymous outsiders in the crowded masses, and how our behaviour changes when we are unobserved, or believe that we are unobserved. To capture these ideas in musical form, he has chosen music from the former Soviet Union, composed during the experimental, aleatory (by random selection) musical period. The music of the Armenian, Awet Terterjan, does not retain a steady pulse, but places demands on, and allows a degree of freedom of interpretation to both the dancers and the Göteborg Opera Orchestra, creating the atmosphere of the fringes of electronic music. This is a World Première.