Even if my relationship to Mr Neumeier’s work may sometimes be considered as an „oblique one“, I definitely much admire his story-tellin ways in „more narrative“ ballets as (most notably) „La Dame aux Camelias“, „Pavillon D’Armide“, (partially) „Joseph’s Legend“ and in his extremely overrated „Sacre“ for their sense of inventiveness and dramaturgy – the latter is a special box of jewels in its mixing of memories, imagination and presentness.