Ballet by Xenia Wiest, composition by Peer Baierlein, performed by Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle
It's no secret: as we grow up, we lose many a valuable skill that made it easy for us to wonder and dream in our childhood. The imagination learns to understand - and largely keeps quiet. Is there a way to get back in touch with it? In Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's story The Little Prince, an inspiring and touching encounter occurs between the narrator and a child who - coming from a distant planet - has landed on Earth. The little prince's gaze is marked by a kind of naïve wisdom, by a dreamy poetic approach to life that shows us the beauty of everydayness.
Ballet director and chief choreographer Xenia Wiest brings the famous story to the stage as a ballet adaptation, showing us a world in which the reality we know and its system of values are reordered and in which suddenly anything is possible. Peer Baierlein, who works as a composer and musical director at theaters throughout Germany, writes a commissioned composition for Ballet X Schwerin and the Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle and combines language and rhythm with great orchestral sound in his musical adaptation of the famous tale.
Musical direction: Aki Schmitt
Choreography: Xenia Wiest
Stage/costumes: Darko Petrovic
Lighting: Hannes Ruschbaum
Music: Peer Baierlein
Dramaturgy: Carmen Kovacs
With: Company Ballett X Schwerin, Mecklenburgische Staatskapelle Schwerin
