The mixed repertory evening CRANKO/VAN MANEN/ BÉJART in the Opera House will be opening with Cranko's beloved classic Initials R.B.M.E..
Set to Johannes Brahm's "Piano Concerto No. 2", this beautiful symphonic ballet with a cast of over 30 dancers is dedicated to Richard Cragun ("R"), Birgit Keil ("B"), Marcia Haydée ("M") and Egon Madsen ("E"), four dancers who were – together with John Cranko - instrumental in the Stuttgart Ballet's meteoric rise to world fame in the 1960's and 1970's.
Today's Stuttgart dancers make this technically highly challenging piece on the beauty of friendship and compagnonship their own and move on in the footsteps of their grand predecessors.