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Noise Signal Si­lence

Choreographies by Richard Siegal

Thursday, 20/11/2025

07.30 PM - 10.00 PM

with two breaks

Performance

07.00 PM Introduction (in German)

Opernhaus

Abo Z

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"Oval“, "Unitxt“ and "Lilac“ (world premiere)

Music by Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch and Alva Noto

In "Noise Signal Silence", the STAATSTHEATER NÜRNBERG Ballet of Difference presents three choreographies by Richard Siegal: one world premiere and two existing works.

Siegal's signature piece ‘Oval’, created for the Berlin State Ballet in 2019, intensively explores the role of the body and its possibilities for communication in the digital age. The work ‘Unitxt’, which premiered with the Bavarian State Ballet in 2013, depicts a hyper-genderised, futuristic society and is strongly inspired by the music of Alva Noto and a collaboration with industrial designer Konstantin Grcic. The evening culminates in the world premiere of ‘Lilac’ by Richard Siegal to music by Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch. This work reinterprets earlier works and connects them with the current identity of the new company STAATSTHEATER NÜRNBERG Ballet of Difference.

OVAL
Choreografie, Bühne: Richard Siegal
Musik: Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto
Kostüme: UY
Licht/Video: Matthias Singer
Einstudierung: Evan Supple

UNITXT
Choreografie, Bühne: Richard Siegal
Musik: Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto
Kostüme: Richard Siegal
Industriedesign: Konstantin Grcic
Licht/Video: Philip Deblitz, Gilles Genter, Richard Siegal, Matthias Singer
Einstudierung: Zuzana Zahradnikova

LILAC (UA)
Choreografie, Bühne: Richard Siegal
Musik: Lorenzo Bianchi Hoesch, Benjamin Clementine
Kostüme: Richard Siegal
Licht/Video: Matthias Singer


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Press reviews
Nürnberger Nachrichten

“A turning point at the Nuremberg Ballet – Montero’s successor Richard Siegal impresses at his debut as the new chief choreographer: cheers for Noise Signal Silence at the opera house.”

Thomas Heinold, Nürnberger Nachrichten

Tanznetz

"The piece [Unittxt] Siegal created in 2013 for the Bavarian State Ballet, later featured in several double and triple bills, explodes with equal force at the Nuremberg Opera House. It is taking on a musical level, unbelievable well constructed and until today the example for the neoclassical approach on the US Choreographer. As Siegal’s first piece on Pointe-shoes, it is deeply rooted in the classical ballet with it’s gender stereotypes, but is freeing itself as a whole new piece of nearly futuristic art, shaped by Clubculture, Street Credibility and the dawning of a new digital age. (...) The new Company, (...) appears in excellent form. (...) In the sold-out Nuremberg Opera House, the opening-applause barometer displayed all possible extremes."

Sabine Leucht, Tanznetz

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