Red Bull Flying Bach Explained

Red Bull Flying Bach is a dance performance by Flying Steps and guest ballerina Yui Kawaguchi / Anna Holmstrom. The work combines breakdance with modern ballet, performed to an electronica adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier.^[1] The music was arranged by Christoph Hagel and the piece choreographed by Vartan Bassil.

The performance has been popular worldwide, and premiered in the United States in June 2014.^[2] It won an Echo Klassik award in 2010.^[3] This routine was performed at the Bundestag, the 2011 Eurovision Song Contest and the Federal Presidency's Summer Festival, and it was given a special Echo award.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chicago lands the Flying Steps Red Bull Flying Bach. Chicago Sun-Times. Di Nunzio, Miriam. 4 March 2014. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140619025830/http://voices.suntimes.com/arts-entertainment/the-daily-sizzle/chicago-lands-the-flying-steps-red-bull-flying-bach/. 19 June 2014.
2. Web site: The Flying Steps to bring Red Bull Flying Bach to Civic Opera House for exclusive US engagement. 4 March 2014. Broadway World.
3. Web site: Red Bull Flying Bach. 9 June 2014. Esplanade.
4. Web site: Bach und Breakdance. WELT online. 17 August 2011.
5. Web site: Breakdance meets Bach. General-Anzeiger. 22 August 2011. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110902010929/http://www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/index.php?k=loka. 2 September 2011.
6. Web site: Eurovision interval acts revealed. Eurovision.tv. 9 May 2011.