A place for creation. This is the Leipzig Ballet under the new direction of Rémy Fichet. The two-part ballet evening »Humans« opens up space for creativity and abstract narratives in the art form of dance.

Sofia Nappi’s movement language plays with the boundaries that can be drawn between ballet, contemporary dance and performance. To the music of Clara Schumann and Henry Purcell, she explores the concept of »Duende«. Inspired by Federico García Lorca and Spanish folklore, »Duende« examines the ambivalence between light and shadow, control and chaos, and the force that gives art its life.

Louis Stiens, born in Munich and most recently a dancer at the Stuttgart Ballet, not only explores how dance takes root in the body and how this affects his personal choreographic language, but also examines the history of the Leipzig Ballet and its work in the GDR, creating links with Schubert’s »Unfinished« Symphony.