Silent Cries

Photo: Hans Gerritsen
On this photo: Sabine Kupferberg

Choreographer: Jiří Kylián

"’Silent Cries' is an elementary choreographic study of an introspective nature. It portrays in a stylized and dissected manner this process of self-recognition and acceptance.
The music, only ten minutes long, was written in two years of great inspiration and struggle. It became a very rare merging of an immaculate knowledge of a craftsman, and an unreachable dream of a poet. Its beauty is the driving force, which will always make us stretch our arms and run towards it, in a hopeless and eternal trance. [...]
I have created this work in close collaboration with my wife Sabine, who has shared good and difficult times with me for over twenty years. It is choreographed in her honour, celebrating her beauty, her imperfection, and doubts." – Jiří Kylián