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How is the Semperoper Ballett celebrating its 200th anniversary? Not at all in classical style but with a tag team match in Semper Zwei. Here there are no winners or losers; instead, there’s a special challenge, a creative competition involving innovative joy in movement, fun and a common goal: to look back over the 200-year history of the Semperoper Ballett as well as to peer into the future.

In wrestling, a "tag team” consists of two or more wrestlers who take turns in the ring. Under the rules, each team member must first “tag” the other to continue the current match. Our "Tag Team“ is made up of Francesca Frassinelli, Julian Nicosia and Giovanni Insaudo, who each hand over their own choreography to the next team member. In our choreographic match, a "tag” can only take place after the predecessor’s premiere: the next dancer takes over and further develops the respective choreography.

For this evening, Kinsun Chan has developed a stage space that will also function as an exhibition and meeting place for special formats throughout the month of April, thereby lending a very special atmosphere to our 200th anniversary. Get ready for a stimulating and diverse set of birthday celebrations and experience the Semperoper Ballett up close on the Semper Zwei stage. Follow our dancers and join them in answering the question: Does every danced movement point simultaneously to the past and future?