Marco Goecke is one of the most interesting dance makers of our time. From the get go, Goecke set out to create a choreographic language entirely independent of the classical technique and he continues forward in his artistic pursuit without compromise. Confronting audiences with clusters of frenetic and electrically charged movement patterns, his work often appears erratic and overwhelming at first glance. But, like all good works of art, upon deeper inspection, Goecke’s complex imagery entices through the uniqueness of its inner governance, perhaps hinting at a darker, more unspoken aspect of our shared human nature.

Created for the State Ballet School of Berlin in 2015, «All Long Dem Day» finds a perfect partner in crime with Nina Simone’s 1956 rendition of “Sinnerman”. Originally a traditional African American spiritual song inspired by the book of Exodus, the lyrics describe a sinner attempting to hide from divine justice on Judgement Day. Simone often chose the song to close her early appearances in New York City’s Greenwich Village: “I want to shake people up so bad that when they leave a nightclub where I’ve performed, I want them to be in pieces.” Pairing Simone’s cries for forgiveness from transgression with Goecke’s explosive movement fragments, the relentlessness of «All Long Dem Day» reminds us that change is not only important but necessary to repair the social, moral and political ties that wither with the passage of time.


ABOUT MARCO GOECKE
As the long-standing resident choreographer of the Stuttgart Ballet and Scapino Ballet, associate choreographer at the Nederlands Dans Theater, resident artist at Gauthier Dance and as director of the Hannover State Ballet, Marco Goecke has created around 80 works in twenty years. These include works commissioned by many international companies such as Les Ballets de Monte Carlo, the Paris Opera Ballet, the Vienna State Ballet, the Norwegian National Ballet, Pacific Northwest Ballet Seattle, the ballet of the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the Berlin State Ballet, the Hamburg Ballet, the Zurich Ballet and the São Paulo Companhia de Dança. Marco Goecke has received numerous international awards, including the Prix Dom Perignon 2003, the 2005 Baden-Württemberg Culture Prize, the 2005 Nijinsky Award, the 2017 Zwaan Dutch Dance Prize. In 2022, he was honoured with the Kylian Ring and the German Dance Prize.

World Premiere on 13th July 2015 by the State Ballet School Berlin

1st Performance by the BJBM on 23rd June 2023 as part of the Bavarian State Ballet's "SPHERES.01 | Goecke" program in Prinzregententheater