Red Bull Flying Bach

Red Bull Flying Bach is a dance performance by Flying Steps and guest ballerina Yui Kawaguchi / Anna Holmstrom. The work combines breakdance with modern ballet, performed to an electronica adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.[1] The music was arranged by Christoph Hagel and the piece choreographed by Vartan Bassil.[2]

The performance has been popular worldwide, and premiered in the United States in June 2014.[2] It won an Echo Klassik award in 2010.[3] This routine was performed at the Bundestag, the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest and the Federal Presidency's Summer Festival, and it was given a special Echo award.[4][5][6]

References

  1. ^ Di Nunzio, Miriam (4 March 2014). "Chicago lands the Flying Steps Red Bull Flying Bach". Chicago Sun-Times. Archived from the original on 19 June 2014.
  2. ^ a b "The Flying Steps to bring Red Bull Flying Bach to Civic Opera House for exclusive US engagement". Broadway World. 4 March 2014.
  3. ^ "Red Bull Flying Bach". Esplanade. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
  4. ^ "Bach und Breakdance". WELT online. 17 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Breakdance meets Bach". General-Anzeiger. 22 August 2011. Archived from the original on 2 September 2011.
  6. ^ "Eurovision interval acts revealed". Eurovision.tv. 9 May 2011.