Winterreise - Trajal Harrell / Franz Schubert

Parading to Schubert The Austrian composer Franz Schubert died at a young age but left behind an extensive body of work, including more than 600 songs. Shortly before his death, he composed his famous Winterreise. In a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano, we follow a wanderer on his solitary journey through a winter landscape, estranged from the world and wrestling with himself. Leading American choreographer Trajal Harrell has long explored the relationship between dancing and walking. Drawing on queer subcultures from the ballroom scene and styles such as voguing, he consistently has his dancers parade on a catwalk – as also in Winterreise. Choreographed to Schubert's music, Harrell creates a parade that presents a collection of winter coats. For the first time in his career, he works with dancers from a ballet company. How do they relate to the universe through which their catwalk passes? And what is happening beneath all those fashionable winter coats?