{"id":12862,"date":"2026-06-26T10:47:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T08:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/stuecke\/nachttraeume\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T09:38:18","slug":"nachttraeume","status":"publish","type":"nb_production","link":"https:\/\/www.hessisches-staatsballett.de\/en\/stuecke\/nachttraeume\/","title":{"rendered":"Nachttr\u00e4ume"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“Night Dreams”<\/strong> by Marcos Morau<\/strong> was the ballet event of the year in Zurich in 2022. The Spanish star choreographer’s work is both a choreographic panorama and a profound Gesamtkunstwerk. It presents a hauntingly beautiful dream world in which power, powerlessness, and blind obedience collide: a 90-minute, emotionally charged journey through the darkness and hopes of our present\u2014a mirror reflecting vanity, envy, greed, and social Darwinism.<\/p>\n

Drawing on Kurt Jooss’s iconic 1932 anti-war dance drama “The Green Table”, Morau interweaves historical references with quotations from masterpieces by Maurice B\u00e9jart, including “Bol\u00e9ro” and “The Rite of Spring” (Le Sacre du printemps<\/em>). In this revival by the Hessiches Staatsballett, the stage becomes a labyrinth of round tables, chairs, red sun-like spheres, and intertwining bodies, where destruction and seduction, menace and sensuality exist in close proximity.<\/p>\n

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Approximate running time: 1 hour 35 minutes<\/p>\n

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Choreography<\/strong> Marcos Morau
\nSet Design<\/strong> Max Glaenzel
\nCostume Design<\/strong> Silvia Delagneau
\nMusic<\/strong> Clara Aguilar (with additional music by Franz Schubert, Sergei Rachmaninoff\/Pierre-Yves Plat, Kaizers Orchestra, Friedrich Hollaender\/Grausame T\u00f6chter, BFRND, Gustave Rudman, Kurt Weill)
\nOriginal Lighting Design<\/strong> Martin Gebhardt
\nVideo<\/strong> Tieni Burkhalter
\nDramaturgy<\/strong> Israel Sol\u00e0, Michael K\u00fcster
\nStaging<\/strong> Marina Rodr\u00edguez, Fabio Calvisi, Shay Partush
\nRehearsal Direction<\/strong> Allison Brown, Luc Jacobs<\/p>\n

Set and costumes courtesy of Zurich Opera House.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Queen<\/strong> Christian Klischat, Jorge Moro Argote (alternating)
\nTrumpet<\/strong> Monika Harder, Andrea Braun, Christine Dobmeier (alternating)
\nPiano<\/strong> Waldemar Martynel<\/p>\n

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Trained in Barcelona and New York, Marcos Morau (born in 1982) studied photography, movement, and theatre. Since graduating from the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona and Pompeu Fabra University, he has created imaginary worlds and landscapes for the stage, where movement and visual imagery meet and amplify one another.<\/p>\n

For more than a decade, Morau has led the artistic collective La Veronal, serving as its director, choreographer, set designer, costume designer, and lighting designer. The company’s productions have been presented in more than thirty countries at major international festivals and venues, including the Th\u00e9\u00e2tre National de Chaillot in Paris, the Venice Biennale, the Festival d’Avignon, Tanz im August in Berlin, the RomaEuropa Festival, the SIDance Festival in Seoul, Danse Danse Montr\u00e9al, and Sadler’s Wells in London.<\/p>\n

Alongside his work with La Veronal, Morau is a sought-after guest artist, creating new works for leading dance companies and theatres around the world. His collaborations include the Netherlands Dance Theatre, the Ballet de l’Op\u00e9ra de Lyon, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, Ballett Z\u00fcrich, Spain’s Compa\u00f1\u00eda Nacional de Danza, Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, the G\u00f6teborg Opera Dance Company, Carte Blanche Norway, Lucerne Theatre Ballet, the Ballett am Rhein in D\u00fcsseldorf, the Ballet de Lorraine, and the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen.<\/p>\n

Morau’s work embraces formats and artistic languages in which opera, dance, and physical theatre engage in dialogue, seeking new forms of expression and communication in an increasingly turbulent and rapidly changing world. Alongside his artistic practice, he is also active as an educator, teaching classes and workshops on his creative process at conservatories and universities, including the Institut del Teatre, the University of the Arts Strasbourg, and Sorbonne Nouvelle University in Paris.<\/p>\n

Marcos Morau has been awarded Spain’s National Dance Prize and was most recently named Choreographer of the Year 2023 by the German dance magazine tanz<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Marcos Morau wurde mit dem Nationalen Tanzpreis in Spanien geehrt und zuletzt von der Zeitschrift \u00abtanz\u00bb zum Choreographen des Jahres 2023 gew\u00e4hlt.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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