The unique past edition of Flanders Festival Ghent opened with a unique production. Together with his colleague Zoë Ashe-Brown, Gabor Kapin - Ballet Vlaanderen’s Budapest-born ballet master - is creating the first performance of his own in a unique diptych: Spiro.

Spiro is Latin for ‘I breathe’. In each of Spiro’s two parts, two dancers and a musician breathe together in an intimate pas de trois. The young Dutch pianist Aidan Mikdad sparkles in Ravels bewitching Gaspard de la Nuit. And cellist Mikko Pablo engages in a dialogue about Bach with the dancers.

◉ This performance was recorded on 21 September 2020 in the Museum of Fine Arts in Ghent. The broadcast will be streamed on 25 March 2021 via soundofghent.be and will be available for 48 hours.◉