Red Bull Flying Bach Tickets

Red Bull Flying Bach tour dates

What does Bach have in common with break dancing? With each Red Bull Flying Bach performance, the Flying Steps create a cultural fusion unlike any other. Combining their carefully honed break-dancing skills with classical music and ballet, the dance crew has created a new dimension of possibility within the art world. The Red Bull Flying Bach tour has played hundreds of sold-out performances in more than 30 countries, bringing its unique take on Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier to enthusiastic audiences around the world.

Red Bull Flying Bach's background

The Red Bull Flying Bach tour all began with the Flying Steps, a nine-member b-boy crew formed in Berlin in 1993. Over the decades, the Flying Steps have emerged as the champions of several break-dance battles, including the international Battle of the Year and the Red Bull Beat Battle.

The concept for the show came to Flying Steps founder Vartan Bassil after he attended a classical concert and imagined a collaboration among ballerinas, break-dancers and classical musicians. Partnering with artistic director Christophe Hagel, they decided to use Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier collection, adapting it with not just the typical piano and harpsichord but also electronic beats.

Despite external skepticism, Bassil, Hagel and the Flying Steps persevered and staged the very first performance of the show in 2010 at Berlin's Neue Nationalgalerie. In that first year of the show's performance, it was recognized with an ECHO Klassik Sonderpreis. The Flying Steps also had the opportunity to perform at the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest.

The Red Bull Flying Bach tour premiered in the U.S. in 2014, and has since made stops at major venues across the country.

The Red Bull Flying Bach experience

The Red Bull Flying Bach show is set to an electronica adaptation of Bach, carrying the original thread of the music but infusing it with a fresh, modern flavor conducive to the break-dancing style of its performers. Featuring a team of break-dancers and a guest ballerina, the performers cavort across the stage, popping and locking, doing head-spins and pirouettes, and creating an elegant, entrancing interpretation of an iconic classical composition.

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