In the darkness of the dream, a door opens and a woman enters, dressed in sheets of paper, symbolising the destiny and judgement that awaits the protagonist... This is the premise of The Trial, a ballet by the eminent Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, based on the literary masterpiece of the same name by Franz Kafka.
Franz Kafka's literary masterpiece of the same name (1914): its fascinating language, its traumatic plot and its evergreen message. The modern production, rich in dramatic twists and turns, recreates the story of Josef K., who wakes up on his 30th birthday to find three policemen at his bedside who want to arrest him for reasons he does not know. who want to arrest him for reasons he does not understand. The disoriented and disbelieving protagonist is then drawn into a judicial machinery that engulfs him in a whirlwind of strange events.
Music by Antonio Bononcini, Dietrich Buxtehude, Henryk Górecki, Carlo Gesualdo, Tarquinio Merula, Claudio Monteverdi, Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Choreography by Mauro Bigonzetti
Czech National Ballet
Artistic team
Artistic director | Filip Barankiewicz
Staging | Carlo Cerri
Costume designer | Mauro Bigonzetti
Video-Projection | Carlo Cerri, OOOPStudio (Alessandro Grisendi, Marco Noviello)
Assistant to the choreography | Carlos Prado
Ballet master | Tereza Podařilová, Alexandre Katsapov, Jiří Kodym