Since 2020, Stephen Shropshire has been the resident choreographer of the São Paulo Companhia de Dança, for whom he has already created: Rococo Variations (2020), Marmorea (2021), and Partita (2022). Together, these works reveal a line of research that began with Shropshire's (re)investigation of classical ballet technique in order to discover new ways of thinking and engaging with his choreographic process. In "The Eighth" (2024), he offers the audience a footnote to these three distinct yet interconnected works. Shropshire creates this piece to the sounds of Anton Bruckner's Eighth Symphony (1824-1896), an emotionally charged composition, as the music journalist Tom Service put it, "that cannot be explained by the rules and regulations of music; instead, its 'form' is phenomenological and is something you need to experience."

a co-production by Posthof – Zeitkultur am Hafen, Brucknerhaus and LIVA Linz, The Dutch Performing Arts Program of the Performing Arts Fund NL, Pró-Danca Association/Sao Paulo Dance Company

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