{"id":14998,"date":"2021-10-30T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2021-10-30T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14998"},"modified":"2024-11-01T21:09:15","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T20:09:15","slug":"kungliga_operan_-_kylianekforsythe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/10\/30\/kungliga_operan_-_kylianekforsythe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kungliga Operan &#8211; Kyli\u00e1n\/Ek\/Forsythe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A ballet evening in three parts.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/bella_figura.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, <i>Bella Figura<\/i>. Lovely baroque music, but I never quite managed to connect to the dance. The movements were too intellectual, too artificial. I couldn&#8217;t relate. It was as if each movement was a signifier of something important but unknown, but they made no sense without knowing the significance of each one.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/overbord.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mats Ek, <i>\u00f6verbord (woman with water)<\/i>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/03\/05\/kungliga_operan_-_kylianeknaharin\/\">Seen it before<\/a>, and it was as striking and compelling as last time. A woman and a table and a glass of water, and it is as if she is meeting both of them for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>There was also a man, but he felt almost like an afterthought. He flitted through, dressed in a black suit, poured water for the woman, but didn&#8217;t feel like a part of anything. I see from the photos that he was there last time as well &#8211; I had completely forgotten him and even thought he was a new addition in today&#8217;s version of this piece.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/in_the_middle_somewhat_elevated.jpg\" class=\"x4y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forsythe, <i>In the middle, somewhat elevated<\/i>. About ten dancers in green and black. Their movements and poses are classically strict and very athletic. Groups emerge, cohere and dissolve, merge and move apart. Mesmerizing and utterly compelling.<\/p>\n<p>All photos (c) Kungliga Operan\/Carl Thorborg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ballet evening in three parts. Ji\u0159\u00ed Kyli\u00e1n, Bella Figura. Lovely baroque music, but I never quite managed to connect to the dance. The movements were too intellectual, too artificial. I couldn&#8217;t relate. It was as if each movement was a signifier of something important but unknown, but they made no sense without knowing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,796],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art_entertainment","category-dance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14998"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15002,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14998\/revisions\/15002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}