attitude/ Dance-Blog: „Shifting Symmetries“: Vienna State Ballet (Wiener Staatsballett), January 11th, 2025

 
 Due to some private reasons, I have not attended any performances during the last few months as I was not in Austria. As the Buddhist saying goes, everything happens for a certain reason, and this sort of „distance“ was extremely positive for me.

„Shifting Symmetries“ is a good, catchy headline, although not really applicable to the evening’s contents. I wonder who created this ill-fitted evening’s title. Which symmetries are meant? Symmetry is the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis. Nothing and everything could relate to that. But it sounds very “chic” even if doesn’t mean a thing.

As I walked through the foyer yesterday, during the first intermission, I heard a couple discussing. I realized they did not quite understand the definition of „shifting“: You could easily describe it as „changing or moving“. But my interpretation is different. It goes far beyond that because of its unpredictability. If you apply, in the general sense, to all things that can happen in our daily life including finances, careers, jobs, Health, and decisions etc, „shifting“ gets a more global meaning that, in times like this, can be nearly mean and cynical..Everything can change. And very quickly, by the way. Think of that…

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attitude – dance-blog/ Ricardo Leitner