Throughout her life Birgit Cullberg was strongly opposed to tyranny in any form. Themes of violence, war, abuse of power, religion and moralism were often present in her ballets and deployed overall in her work as a form of protest. Revolt<\/i> (1973) was a collective ballet where the protagonists were a group of prisoners. Their revolt against violence and oppression was the theme.<\/p>\n
Revolt<\/i> is inspired by the Italian artist Giambattista Piranese’s artwork Carceri <\/i>d’invenzione<\/i> (1760-1762) which was included in an exhibition about Italian prisons that took place in Stockholm at the time. Although the ballet was about revolt against authority, Cullberg said that it was more about the dream of freedom and of resistance to violence in all its forms. The protest thus took on a positive air, depicting an overarching desire for freedom and sense that life goes on. Cullberg was by and large an optimistic, life affirming and positive person. In Revolt<\/i>, the prisoners found a way out to freedom. One of the main characters was Judith who sacrifices her body, seducing the prison guard and then killing him. Towards the end of the 1970s Cullberg’s work became more overtly political, moving away from erotic depictions of love that had characterized her aesthetic for some time. Revolt<\/i> is one of Cullberg’s abstract and dramatic dance theater works alongside others such as Eurydice <\/i>is Dead<\/i>, Romeo and Juliet<\/i> and The Dreamer<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Revolt<\/i> was first performed as a ballet for television (1972) and was later moved to the stage. Judith was danced by Lena Wennergren and the prison guard by Vlado Juras.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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