KRMG.tanz 5

In the organizer's words:

E.T.A. Hoffmann's fantastic tale The Sandman has found its way onto the stage several times, just think of Offenbach's opera The Tales of Hoffmann and Leo Délibe's ballet Coppélia. In 2026, we celebrate the 250th anniversary of the poet's birth, and Boris Randzio explores this material through dance, focusing on the fate of Nathanael, who is unable to escape his overpowering adversary Spalanzani. Nathanael falls in love with Olimpia, Spalanzani's seemingly perfect but emotionless creature. Caught up in this fascination, he is no longer accessible to Clara and his friends and loses himself.At the time of Romanticism and industrialization, people found themselves exposed to sinister, threatening forces. And today? The story of the Sandman also reflects aspects and questions of our modern life. How do we deal with the temptations of artificial intelligence and virtual worlds, do we question the ethical limits of science, do we allow our feelings to be manipulated?... This content has been machine translated.