Bolero Bordello is a 30-minute live performance unfolding within the environment of the exhibition currently on view at Capitain Petzel. Set among paintings, objects, and architectural gestures, the performance shifts the gallery into an active stage – blurring installation, choreography, and concert.
Through sound, movement, and voice, the event revisits Maurice Ravel’s Bolero and its long lineage of interpretations, starting with Bronislava Nijinska’s 1928 choreography and Maurice Béjart’s legendary version with Jorge Donn as La Mélodie, embracing their intensity, theatricality, and the tension between sincerity and camp.
The performance engages with Bolero’s dual nature – both as a high-modernist ballet and as a popular, transcultural rhythm that has traveled across decades and styles. Using the repetition and seduction of Bolero, it explores themes of collectivity, transformation, and the porous edge between historical context and contemporary experience.
with
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy
PRICE
and others
Saturday, 5 December, 7 pm
Capitain Petzel
Karl-Marx-Allee 45
10178 Berlin
