Walking Mad
Walking Mad is a dance piece from 2001 based on music by Maurice Ravel ( Boléro ) and Arvo Pärt ( For Alina ). The choreography comes from Johan Inger . The world premiere took place in The Hague by the Nederlands Dans Theater .
With Walking Mad, Ravel's Boléro experiences an idiosyncratic interpretation in the form of a cheerful relationship drama. The adventures of three women, their relationships with themselves and with the men in their lives are presented with a lot of humor and a serious undertone.
The piece is divided into three very different phases. Is the first phase in both the optical impression by earth-colored costumes, as well as can be almost kept very simple in Choreographisches and monotonically, then this increases over a very expressive and lively second phase to a third phase, in the form in which Slapstick the Represents the climax of the gender war. The range of emotions that Johan Inger draws on in his choreography ranges from enthusiastically in love to brutally jealous. After a seemingly happy finale, the piece comes to a serious end in a final twist.