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The Staatsballett Berlin will present the world premiere of Wunderkammer on 31 October 2025 at the Komische Oper Berlin @Schillertheater, the first full-length choreography by Artist in Residence Marcos Morau for the company.
The Spaniard was recently named “Choreographer of the Year” for the second time in tanz magazine’s annual critics’ survey. After Overture, he is now working on his second creation with the Staatsballett Berlin ensemble.
With his unmistakable stage worlds, Marcos Morau evokes familiar places, which he simultaneously transposes into dreamlike and unreal spheres. The title Wunderkammer refers to the historical cabinets of curiosities that served as collections of extraordinary and ‘curious’ objects in Renaissance and Baroque Europe. Marcos Morau takes up this theme and interweaves it with Berlin’s nightlife from the 1920s to the present day: “I was inspired by the nocturnal worlds of cabaret and the dark worlds of nightlife, in which grotesque humour, playful exaggeration and an aura of …
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Image above: Rehearsals for Wunderkammer, photo: Yan Revazov.
