And the Rain Will Pass... at Teatr Wielki - Opera Narodowa, Moniuszko Auditorium

Krzysztof Pastor’s ballet And the Rain Will Pass... is the his very personal artistic statement. After a long stay abroad, he noticed more scars and evidence of suffering in Warsaw than in any other city. He was inspired by images from literature and films showing traumatic moments in Polish history. Most importantly, however, once again he chose the moving and dramatic music of Henryk Miko?aj Górecki. He has designed ballets to his compositions before, to Symphony No. 3 in Warsaw (1994) and Amsterdam (1996), to the Harpsichord Concerto (in the ballet Moving Rooms) in Amsterdam (2008). This time, he took Beatus vir, Quasi una fantasia, and Kleines Requiem für eine Polka. This music creates the fabric for Krzysztof Pastor’s new poetic ballet – production prepared for Polish National Ballet. The title is a phrase taken from the beautiful poem Deszcze [Rain] by Krzysztof Kamil Baczy?ski, the poet-insurgent, a symbol of the tragic “generation of Columbuses”. The world premiere received a lot of publicity in Poland and internationally. “Tygodnik Powszechny” described Pastor’s ballet as “a reckoning with the demons of Poland’s most recent history and the ‘God and fatherland’ vision of historical politics”.