The Maestro arrives

Josef’s co-choreographer, the great Royston Maldoom, whose work I already knew from the DVD, ’Rhythm is it’ -and also from his live performance of the Rite of Spring, accompanied by the Berliner Philarmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in Berlin- worked today with the youngsters alongside Josef. Two great and complementary personalities with the same passion to create a memorable and professional show. This is to be no kids’ show, where the participants simply have fun but a spectacle that will excite and amaze.


Each and every one is to contribute to the whole by putting 100% energy into his role, by remembering his part in the story line, imagining the feelings and conveying them clearly to the audience through the face - especially the eyes - as well as the body’s movements.


Throughout the performance there is to be 100 % concentration and preparedness to move, whether on stage or not. The art of stagecraft.

Yes, the Firebird will be performed in just four days time. I don’t believe that fact has yet dawned on the young people! Only when they leave the familiar sports hall ‚theatre’ to rehearse in the main theatre in Bucharest will the penny really drop.

Viv