Gauthier Dance: The Seven Sins

The crème de la crème of international choreographers portrays the seven deadly sins: envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, sloth, and pride.

Envy, greed, gluttony, anger, lust, sloth, pride.... In the Catechism, seven offences are considered sins so extreme, that they cannot be forgiven. In art, they have inspired all genres: from Renaissance painters to Hollywood films. Eric Gauthier offers them danced – in seven different ways. He follows the Cadavre Exquis model, a game of the Surrealists in which several artists put together a drawing or sentence on a folded sheet without knowing about the contents of the others. Gauthier brings together the crème de la crème of international choreographers for his collective collage: Aszure Barton, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau, Hofesh Shechter and Sasha Waltz with each creating a dance piece without knowing about the work of the others. A mosaic of images is assembled into a large, metaphor rich tableau. Each of these seven artists will portray one of the deadly sins in movement at the Stuttgart Theaterhaus – dark, garish, minimalist or iconoclastic, from dance theatre to performance to modern ballet.

Genre Dance
Recording location Theaterhaus Stuttgart
Recording date 18.11.2022
Video format HD
Production Company EuroArts Music in coproduction SWR/arte
TV Director Andreas Morell
Distribution TV EuroArts Music
Distribution VOD / SVOD EuroArts Music
Choreography by Aszure Barton, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Sharon Eyal, Marco Goecke, Marcos Morau, Hofesh Shechter and Sasha Waltz
Dance Company Gauthier Dance Company
Duration 110'