The first edition of the International Festival of Contemporary Dance opened yesterday evening with “Ballet Preljocaj” from Paris, choreographed by Angelin Preljocaj at the National Theater of Opera and Ballet.

The Minister of Culture, Elva Margariti, says in a post on social networks that “Winterreise”, the meeting point between Schubert’s music and choreography by the artist Angjelin Preljocaj raised the curtain of the International Festival of Contemporary Dance.

Winterreise, which will be staged even tonight at the Opera House, is a ballet that bears the original title of Franz Schubert’s most famous Lieder cycle, after the images summed up by Wilhelm Müller’s poem: its romantic impressionism, the emotions and feelings it conveys.

Its dramatic and choreographic basis is the idea of ​​a long suicide act in slow motion.

The International Festival of Contemporary Dance will continue on October 31 and November 1 with the troupe from Berlin choreographed by Blenard Azizaj.

A troupe from Vienna with choreographed by Eno Peci, choreography of Gentian Doda and  Angelin Preljocaj with a troupe from the Opera and Ballet Theater will perform on the 3rd and 4th of November.

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