Yesterday, the piece “Vom Verschwinden der Körper”, which Maura Morales created for the “Ballett Graz”, had its premiere at the Graz Opera House to an enthusiastic reaction from both the audience and the press

Foto: Werner Kmetitsch

A powerful symphony of bodies
Kronen Zeitung
[...] At the end, the audience sits in the dark and only hears the dancers’ breathing, which becomes quieter step by step until it fades away completely. Even if you can no longer see the dancers, you can still feel the echo of their bodies, which they have just chased furiously across the studio stage of Graz Opera for a good 60 minutes.
[...] It is a breathtaking evening that Maura Morales has created with eight dancers from Ballett Graz. [...]

A captivating play with body images
Kleine Zeitung
Vom Verschwinden der Körper tells of the body as a social construct in a highly dynamic way using the means of dance.
[...] It is about the description and decoding of the body as a social construct. It is about reflecting on subjective and social images of the body, performed captivatingly by eight members of the Graz Ballet ensemble.”
[...] Michio Woirgardt’s dynamic incidental music, a soundscape of natural, industrial and quasi-sacred noises that intensify into percussion as the production progresses, plays a major part in the hypnotic effect of the evening. Long cheers after almost 70 minutes.
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