The dance piece, choreographed by Marcos Morau, will be staged in 2028.
Sadler’s Wells (UK), Bunkamura (Japan) and La Veronal (Spain) has announced that a major new dance work from visionary choreographer Marcos Morau celebrating the enduring legacy of David Bowie is in production.
Titled Subject to Change – A Dance for David Bowie will explore many of Bowie’s different personas, meanwhile Maorau is known for his abstract movement and physical theatre and will bring each Bowie persona and the cultural landscape they helped to transform to life.
David Bowie’s iconic songs and original vocals are reimagined, interwoven with choral sounds from across the globe and acclaimed vocalist María Arnal in a rich and eclectic score. The production will feature musical direction by Alex Röser Vatiché and Ben Meerwein of OZCUR, costume design by Silvia Delagneau and set design by Max Glaenzel.
Further details and casting have yet to be announced.
Marcos Morau, Choreographer and Creator, said: “David Bowie practised a form of artistic reincarnation. Throughout his career, he created a succession of personas and destroyed each one so that the next could be born. He appeared as Ziggy Stardust, then deliberately ended it to re-emerge as Aladdin Sane. He lived for a moment as Halloween Jack and later transformed into the Thin White Duke. Each time the persona changed, the previous one disappeared. The final transformation was Blackstar. Bowie turned his own death into part of the artwork itself.
SUBJECT TO CHANGE is a work about that cycle of reincarnation. About the phenomenon itself: the act of dying and being reborn, again and again, as a way of remaining alive. I’m looking forward to having the opportunity to, in my own way, bring to life a new work that responds to Bowie’s creation, and re-creation, through dance. The cycle that Bowie enacted across his artistic life is re-enacted here, in sound and movement, in real time, on stage. It is an honour to create a new piece that takes its cue from an artist who is a great personal inspiration to me.”