Giulietta Masina’s big, sad eyes when her mother sells her to the showman Zampanò for a kilo of salami and two bottles of wine. Anthony Quinn’s virile brutality with which he treats Gelsomina. The circus world that no one could paint as poetically as Federico Fellini in “La Strada” (1954). In addition, Nino Rota’s music, which the composer later rewrote into a ballet suite. It premiered in 1966 at La Scala in Milan. So much mental cinema that could get in the way of the choreography of a contemporary narrative ballet to La Strada. Marco Goecke was not impressed by this, he only watched the Fellini classic once more in preparation for his work and then developed his very own dance language for the states of mind of Gelsomina, Zampanò and Co. Now his ballet – the The choreographic premiere was in 2018 – on January 21st and 28th, each time at 7.30 p.m., as a season premiere again at the Gärtnerplatztheater. The orchestra of the Staatstheater plays under the direction of Michael Brandstätter.
Marco Goecke’s choreography for Nino Rota’s ballet suite “La Strada” – Munich
