Multiplicity / Forms of Silence and Emptiness - Nacho Duato

Compañía Nacional de Danza Multiplicidad. Formas de Silencio Y Vacío Nacho Duato. 1999. Multiplicidad. J.S. Bach - Anner Bylsma-Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007/I. Prélude Before Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato created a ballet set to works by J.S. Bach, he spent more than a year listening to music by the 18th-century German composer. When he finally stepped away from the stacks of CDs, he was ready to choreograph 22 pieces of music ranging from the popular cello preludes to the most obscure concertos. He was also profoundly humbled by Bach’s prolific output. The resulting work, “Multiplicity / Forms of Silence and Emptiness,“ opens with the still-fit, 50-something Duato kneeling humbly onstage as a recording of the solo piano “Goldberg Variations“ plays. The object of his adoration is Thomas Klein, a dancer who dons a curled white wig, vest and puffed-sleeve blouse to portray the Baroque master. As Duato explained last week, speaking