Family workshop
To prepare the visit to the opera, participants are introduced to the plot as well as important characters, and they also rehearse short dance scenes. Valid only in combination with a visit to a family performance.
Registration required
Tel: 030 34 384-166
E-mail: contact@tanz-ist-klasse.de
«Mystery and fragility, mature awareness and the ability to dream»
Maria Grazia Chiuri, Creative Director of Women's Collections for Dior
I became acquainted with Sharon Eyal’s work through Carlo Fuortes when he was director of the Rome Opera.
Our collaboration began when I presented my collection dedicated to dance – the Spring-Summer 2019 ready-to-wear collection shown in Paris in September 2018. I am really fascinated by dance—it engages me in all its expressions. It is simultaneously a liberating act and one that demands great discipline.
From the very start, my partnership with Sharon was characterised by our shared views and intentions. From that moment on, we built a rapport of respect and friendship, which has grown over time as we got to know each other. This has led to a genuine, deep bond and has resulted in many other opportunities to work together, both to present some of my collections and for Sharon’s artistic projects. In her poetics there is a deep connection that unites mystery and fragility, mature awareness and the ability to dream. It was the movement between these extremes that drew me in, a movement sharpened through a beauty defined by many layers, many levels, which can become even disturbing, oblique, less pacifying than it is a cause for reflection. A beauty transformed by time and the intensity of emotions.
Just as I do in fashion, Sharon Eyal celebrates the body in all its strength and suppleness, building relationships and creating atmospheres. So for SAABA, Sharon’s project for the Göteborg Opera in Sweden, I designed skintight flesh-coloured jumpsuits, in which the consistency could almost give way and morph into Dior lace, and then into rips, tears, stretches, into an evanescent materiality that reflects the idea of a beauty both delicate and strong, imperfect and therefore poetic.
