In December 2014 Kenneth MacMillan would have celebrated his 85th birthday. The Stuttgart Ballet honores this celebrated scottish choreographer with an evening that shows two of his most eminent masterpieces, both of them created for the Stuttgart Ballet: In Song of the Earth MacMillan transforms Gustav Mahler’s intense music about the cycle of life and death into dance. His Requiem is a moving tribute to his lifelong friend John Cranko whose tragic early death shocked the dance world and the resilience of the company he left behind.