Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness Nacho Duato
Compañía Nacional de Danza Multiplicidad. Formas de Silencio Y Vacío Nacho Duato. 1999. Multiplicidad. J. S. Bach Anner BylsmaSuite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007, I. Prélude Before Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato created a ballet set to works by J. S. Bach, he spent more than a year listening to music by the 18thcentury German composer. When he finally stepped away from the stacks of CDs, he was ready to choreograph 22 pieces of music ranging from the popular cello preludes to the most obscure concertos. He was also profoundly humbled by Bach s prolific output. The resulting work, Multiplicity, Forms of Silence and Emptiness, opens with the stillfit, 50something Duato kneeling humbly onstage as a recording of the solo piano Goldberg Variations plays. The object of his adoration is Thomas Klein, a dancer who dons a curled white wig, vest and puffedsleeve blouse to portray the Baroque master. As Duato explained last week, speaking br, br,
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