Cacti - Alexander Ekman (NDT 2 | Schubert)

Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) | Alexander Ekman’s piece ’Cacti’ for the NDT 2 programme ’Schubert’. Subscribe now to stay up-to-date with NDT! In Cacti choreographer and self-proclaimed ‘rhythm freak’ Alexander Ekman used classical music for the first time; a new arrangement of Schubert’s Der Tod und das Mädchen, in which the dancers form the instruments of the orchestra. Music: Franz Schubert: Symphony in D minor Death and the Maiden IV: Presto, arr. and adapted for orchestra by Andy Stein Joseph Haydn: sonate no V “Sitio” from Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, Hoboken XX, 1B; Allegro from string quartets Opus 9, no 6 in A major Ludwig van Beethoven: stringquartet no. 9 in C, Opus 59, section from: Andante con moto quasi allegretto | Live performed by: Tinta Schmidt von Altenstadt (first violin), Arnieke Beilschmidt (second violin), Naomi Peters (alto violin), Artur Trajko (cel