LOVE AND FEAR at Polish National Opera

Four revivals in one ballet evening. The evening opens with a choreographic suite from Kurt Weil ? Krzysztof Pastor's own project ? a ballet fresco pulsating with energy that stimulates reflections concerning the changing fate of an artist, the symptoms of intolerance and the eternal yearning for love. Robert Bondara in his ballet When You End and I Begin... touches the phenomenon of the constant search but also of the impermanence of close human ties. A hundred years ago Afternoon of a Faun in Vaclav Nijinsky’s choreography became renowned as a picture of the awakening of youthful eroticism. Jacek Tyski also builds on the erotic but the reveries of his Faun wander much more boldly into the nooks ands corners of the subconscious mind. Toward the end we see an all male ballet The Green in which Ed Wubbe confronts the overawing power of a fragment of Bach’s Passion with the insignificance of the human being.