CARPATHIA - Der Mythos der Untoten

In the organizer's words:

With C A R P A T H I A - The Myth of the Undead, Romanian choreographer Edward Clug embarks on a choreographic search for the origins of the Dracula and vampire myth. The starting point is Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula, which began in Munich, as well as its influential film adaptations from Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's expressionist classic Nosferatu from 1922 to Werner Herzog's 1979 reinterpretation. Clug's ballet logically returns to its literary origins and celebrates its world premiere at Munich's National Theatre. The work unfolds as a sequence of ritual states in which meaning emerges from constant transformation. At the center is a fundamental rupture, the loss of balance between man and the order surrounding him, which is considered sacred. Immortality does not appear as a promise or power, but as a heavy burden. The human body becomes the central place where this rupture becomes visible, tangible and bearable. Milko Lazar's music, composed especially for this production, shapes time as pulse and breath and accompanies the path from rupture to transformation. Marko Japelj is responsible for the stage design and Leo Kulaš for the costumes.