Tristan und Isolde

The Truth is Love

Dance piece by Guido Markowitz based on the opera by Richard Wagner

A guest performance by Tanz Theater Pforzheim

What is truth? What is the one truth for which two people, who have crossed the sea from Ireland to Cornwall, over the stormy Celtic Sea? The truth, this impossible, lightning-like event, after which nothing is as it was before, and no one can simply continue as before without becoming a traitor! This truth is the love between Tristan and Isolde. An old legend, a high medieval romance, but above all: that opera in the work of Richard Wagner, where love transcends all logic of conventions, the identity of algorithms and consumption as something heroic and cosmic.

Guido Markowitz takes on the challenge of creating a dance piece in dialogue between the world of legends and Wagner's composition, aiming to illuminate the significance of truth and love for today's humanity. Just as truth and betrayal hold conflict, he ventures into a world of many layers that together set the heroic story of love in motion – the tale of the struggle for recognition and dependence, of passion, eroticism, alchemy, and spirit, and ultimately of the sublime and terrible consequences that every great truth can demand from all of us.

6:45 PM Introduction to the dance evening

Photo: © ANDREA D’AQUINO

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- Wheelchair space with accompaniment

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