Salome tanz

Herod, Tetrarch of Galilee, is more than just a little entranced by his stepdaughter Salome. With her nascent femininity beginning to blossom, already a woman but still a girl, she plays flirtatiously and self-confidently with her youthful charms. Only one man wants nothing to do with her: John the Baptist. He dams the sinfulness of the Tetrarch's court and also calls on the young Salome to change her ways. But the tenaciousness of the saint inflames Salome's desire, and if she cannot have him living, she wants him dead!

The young woman who calls for the head of John the Baptist in the Bible remains nameless. But there is hardly any other figure from the New Testament who fascinates artists of all genres, historians and philosophers more than the dangerous yet attractive daughter of Herodias. Over the centuries, a vast number of artistic adaptations have been created, reaching their culmination with Oscar Wilde's play and the opera based on it by Richard Strauss. The young Israeli choreographer Eyal Dadon brings this physical and ecstatic story to the ballet stage and turns the myth of the dazzlingly uninhibited Salome into an electrifying dance experience.

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