Hubert Essakow

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Tenebre – Stefan Schmöe, Online Music Magazine

“Gradually the movements transform, starting out as archaic and oddly fascinating in the grey-blue light and becoming increasingly elaborate, until the dancing is done on pointe and finally the evolutionary change finds its culmination with a range of figures being raised up to lofty heights. After the artifice of ballet as an art form was

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Tenebre – Heiner Frost, Niederrhein Nachrichten

“Hubert Essakow’s ‘Tenebre’ glows from the very first second. Here we see a choreographer deep into the possibilities of staging, use all the apparatus available to him and create a unity of rare poetic concentration. One wishes to believe that everything about this ballet is brilliant and follows it breathlessly. (…) It’s all incredible: the

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Tenebre – Marieluise Jeitschko, Tanznetz

“As yet little known in Germany, South African-born choreographer Hubert Essakow has been commissioned by Martin Schläpfer to create a new work for his company. ‘Tenebre’ (Darkness) presents an intense contrast of mood to Taylor’s ‘Esplanade’. The proximity of death is tangible, of a human life beyond sunshine and light. The aesthetic of three full

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