A Ballet Story is inspired in the ballet Zephyrtine, by David Chesky. It is not however the performative representation or illustration of the original narrative – the exercise was rather an abstractive one, and as a starting point we had in mind the movement of bodies in space, articulated with music. There’s no fairy tale, no elements of wonder, no fantastic. The morals is different, the outcome, of a different nature.
In A Ballet Story I don’t know if the story adjusts itself to the music or if the dance adjusts itself to the story. The narrative will be composed by each spectator (or not). It’s not about a linear articulation between music, narrative and dance. It is about a process of mutual influence and elective affinities that put together a piece which is manoeuvrable in various ways and, as far as it can be, appears as a whole.