Ballet for 10 dancers
Created on the 10th of September 2020 for the Bolshoi Ballet

Choreography | Martin Chaix

Costume design | Alexandar Noshpal

Set design | Thomas Mika

Light design | Anton Stikhin

Music | Silentium. Senza Moto, second movement of Tabula Rasa from Arvo Pärt

Tabula Rasa, from which the second movement Silentium is from, means “clean slate”, a sort of new beginning, starting from scratch to an unknown and uncertain reality.
As humanity is currently facing one of the worst global health crisis in history, I was looking for a way to find solace and use choreography as a catharsis for this horrid situation. Silentium is a ballet about transitioning into a distant and unsure world, a world that is both full of hopes and fears, a world no one knows.

On stage, I want to describe this intermediate state that everyone is - to different degrees - experiencing, following one protagonist through her journey as she is looking for answers and comfort.
A world of silence, blinded by a shining light. Choreographic poetry designed to ease ourselves.

Medias

Photos © Svetlana Loboff