Der Step­pen­wolf

In his oeuvre, Goyo Montero has already dealt many times with works of world literature classics. He created dance pieces inspired by Goethe’s "Faust", Rostand’s "Cyrano de Bergerac", Cervantes’ "Don Quixote" and Shakespeare’s "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

In the adaptation of "Steppenwolf" after Hermann Hesse's novel of the same name published in 1927 - which later became the cult book of the 68 generation - the choreographer focuses on the complex personality structure of the protagonist Harry Haller, which he elaborates with primary interest in the psychological core and by embarking on a journey into the unconscious, into the inner world of his sensitive and lonely hero.

Owen Belton, proven expert in contemporary dance composition and long-time artistic partner of Montero, provides the score to a choreography that tackles the core theme of an artist torn between individualism and a bourgeois society.

In collaboration with a top-class artistic team already familiar from "Goldberg" and "Narrenschiff", Goyo Montero is inspired conceptually for the first time by the aesthetics of performance art in the wake of great artists such as Joseph Beuys or Marina Abramović. With the help of the multi-layered stage design of the Spanish collective "EstudiodeDos" (Leticia Gañán & Curt Allen Wilmer) and in first-time collaboration with video designer Álvaro Luna, the audience is transported into an atmosphere of hallucinations and ambiguous worlds. The renowned costume designer Salvador Mateu Andujar completes the artistic team around Goyo Montero, together with the lighting designer Martin Gebhardt.