Vivaldi's Four Seasons is certainly one of the best known and most popular works that classical music has produced in recent centuries. So how does one approach a piece that is so well known and with which the vast majority of people already have their own associations?
Choreographer James Kudelka turns The Four Seasons into a ballet in four acts. As in the musical original, spring, summer, autumn and winter each have their own character in his work - and yet they are characterised by a common aesthetic, an overarching dance approach: Kudelka reduces his interpretation entirely to his dancers and their movements - stage design, costumes, props remain reduced and thus leave room entirely for the dance impressions.