Coppélia
“Coppélia” Angelo Murdocco, Caroline Matthiessen
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This unconcerned, youthfully hand-written choreography was a great success. The up-to-date staging of “Coppélia”, received an excellent, positive reaction from the public in the Stadttheater. Set in the depressing atmosphere of a council estate, inspired by the Marzahn-estate and Hellersdorf areas of Berlin... the story was amusingly, playfully told. The powerful choreography was supplemented with comical-pantomime scenes.This shortened version of “Coppélia”, staged with pace and a feather lightness will most certainly speak to a Teenaged-public. Uta Jostwerner, Westfalen-Blatt Bielefeld’s ballet director Philip Lansdale is realistic and skilful: He makes the most out of relatively little for the audience and demands everything from his dancers. Once more the Englishman has proven that he is a good story teller... This “Coppélia”, is really worth seeing, thanks to the modern choreography, and the beautiful interpretation of the dancers... Marieluise Jeitschko, Westfälische Nachrichten The choreograph Philip Lansdale’s 9th production for the Bielefeld theatre, is a success. It is a poetical, magical piece of pure romance. There was no danger of Lansdale succumbing to tasteless, sentimentality with this piece. The charm, poetry, humor and the blending in of the aggressive behavior of today's youth, was well incorporated into his choreography. Eckhard Britsch, Neue Westfälische |