The Sleeping Beauty - Marcos Morau

What does beauty dream about while sleeping? After his impressive Romeo + Julia, Spanish top choreographer Marcos Morau returns to Opera Ballet Vlaanderen with a daring reinterpretation of The Sleeping Beauty. The age-old fairy tale becomes a disturbing allegory about our relationship to time. Not the awakening but the sleep itself is central. What does beauty dream about while sleeping? Which images, fears and desires populate that dream world? Marcos Morau redraws the fairy tale as a tempestuous, almost frenzied procession of enigmatic figures, driven by extreme physical intensity and breathtaking images. Contemporary composer Juan Cristóbal Saavedra enriches Tchaikovsky's 1890 romantic ballet composition with electronic sounds. The radical The Sleeping Beauty thus becomes a sensory experience that balances between dream and reality and that inescapably draws the spectator into a world that is both poetic and unsettling.