Red Bull Flying Bach is a dance performance by

Flying Steps The Flying Steps is a B-boy crew formed in 1993 by Kadir Memis ("Amigo") and Vartan Bassil in Berlin. The crew has nine members. They specialise in B-boying (breakdance), popping and locking and were world champions in these dance styles severa ...

and guest ballerina Yui Kawaguchi / Anna Holmstrom. The work combines breakdance with

modern ballet Contemporary ballet is a genre of dance that incorporates elements of classical ballet and modern dance. It employs classical ballet technique and in many cases classical pointe technique as well, but allows greater range of movement of the uppe ...

, performed to an

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to r ...

adaptation of Johann Sebastian Bach's ''

The Well-Tempered Clavier ''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time, ''clavier'', meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of in ...

''. 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. It won an Echo Klassik award in 2010. This routine was performed at the Bundestag, the

2011 Eurovision Song Contest The Eurovision Song Contest 2011 was the 56th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Düsseldorf, Germany, following the country's victory at the with the song "Satellite" by Lena. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union ...

and the Federal Presidency's Summer Festival, and it was given a special Echo award.

References

{{reflist Johann Sebastian Bach Modern dance