Can, can, should you do that? A good forty years ago, when Hamburg’s ballet director John Neumeier dared to tackle Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, the theater crowd shuddered. At the time, bringing a spiritual composition to the stage using the most mundane means of art could certainly be seen as sacrilege.
We are the mob: Sasha Waltz choreographs Bach’s St. John Passion in Salzburg – Culture
