Alice im Wunderland - Das Märchenballett

In the organizer's words:

Duration: approx. 2 hours 15 minutes, one intermission

World premiere | fairytale ballet by Michal Sedláček
freely adapted from Lewis Carroll | Music by Antonín Dvořák & Arvo Pärt

Alice is celebrating her birthday. Suddenly, the real world disappears and Alice leaves the here and now behind her. Kidnapped by a chased white rabbit, she plunges into a strange world, a fantastic world. Everything is upside down here. Alice becomes so tall that she can no longer fit through a door; then Alice becomes so small that she can no longer reach a door handle. She enters a transformed wonderland, encounters a smoking caterpillar and swims through a sea of tears. She meets the Cheshire Cat, who looks nothing like a purring pet. She stops off at a strange tea party, very British, and finally arrives at the court of the Queen of Hearts, who is less cordial than her name suggests. First Alice has to play croquet with her, then she experiences her annoyance over a stolen cupcake. Before the story in the story comes to an end with a court ruling, Alice wakes up again in the now, in the real world. Alice is celebrating her birthday. Also known as literary nonsense, the novel by Charles Ludwige Dodgson (pseudonym: Lewis Carroll) offers a wealth of metaphors and playful scenarios.

Michal Sedláček celebrates the story of little Alice as a hymn to the imagination and British humor and brings well-known characters such as the March Hare, the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat to life on stage. They dance to music by Czech composer Antonín Dvořák and Estonian composer Arvo Pärt.