Shakespeare Dances at Theater an der Wien

I think Shakespeare is the greatest reservoir of inspiration for choreographers. He is the most humane of all poets. He sees things, speaks of things that have a dimension that are much stronger than his own words. Although I want to belittle his language in any way. Some critics said that one could not understand Shakespeare, if you do not bring his own humanity. I think that's the essence. He has people so deeply recognized, its characters and their relationships described so incredibly complex and strong that we understand even without words on the dance stage, paradoxical as it may seem. John Neumeier

John Neumeier has created many choreographies based on William Shakespeare's plays. Some he has repeatedly revised and a new perspective. For the 40th anniversary of the Hamburg Ballet Neumeier distilled from three of his original feature-length Shakespeare choreographies a single evening, which is to be a show about his long involvement with the work of the English playwright representative. Neumeier's recent version of Hamlet is in the middle of the night, framed by the two comedies As You Like It and VIVALDI or What You Will. Neumeier has worked out in all three abstracts the essence for him in more detail. A figure runs like a staple through the evening, it is Jaques of As You Like It. Neumeier explains its function: "In Shakespeare's Jaques in his monologue, an observer of human nature and its vicissitudes. It has the display of human existence in view when he says:., All the world's a stage / And all the men and women merely players' in the balance between fun and serious energy and will to live even in the exchange of life and death are visible , And one might say that the force asserted on the stage, arises from the beginning of all "