Winterreise - Trajal Harrell / Franz Schubert

Parading on Schubert The Austrian composer Franz Schubert died at a young age but left behind an extensive body of work, including more than 600 lieder. Shortly before his death, he composed his famous Winterreise. In a cycle of 24 lieder for voice and piano, we follow a wanderer during his lonely journey through a winter landscape, alienated from the world and struggling with himself. The leading American choreographer Trajal Harrell has long been investigating 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 – also in Winterreise. To Schubert's music, Harrell choreographs 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 the fashionable winter coats?