More than a tribute to Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, this work responds to the need to vindicate the life and work of this Russian composer who cultivated, in an exceptional way, the link between writing, ballet and music. The work emerges from the dialogue between classical and contemporary aesthetic codes, bringing the exercise of choreography to a reflection in movement on the history of dance. Thus, Tchaikovsky's romantic sensibility is revitalized through a body, musical and stage language that explores, from abstraction, emotions, desire and pain.


With these renewed codes, the work develops as the staging of Tchaikovsky's life, crossed by homosexuality and a creative expression that hardly fitted in with his environment. The first gesture of vindication involves reversing the gender hierarchy that characterises the traditional choreography of classical ballet: while the male dancers form a collective "corps de ballet" that personifies the composer's secret lovers, three female soloists play the most important women in the musician's life: his mother, his wife and his patron. The sensitive purpose of the work is to free the artist from his suffering and connect him to the enjoyment of his sexuality, even if it is posthumously.


As part of a constant collaboration between choreographer and composer, Diego Noguera created the original music for this piece, inspired by the symphony Manfredo in B minor, op. 58, created in 1885 by Tchaikovsky. Based on the sonority, orchestration, structure and tonality of that work, the music does not have a main melody, and goes through different states full of textures, like a cloud of sound within which coincidences between rhythms and notes are generated. This sound landscape of romantic depth served as a framework for the choreographic creation, which emerged from the experimental encounter between performers from JoseVidal's company and the stable cast of the Municipal Ballet, between romantic sensitivity and abstraction, between history and contingency.


Commissioned by the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, and performed by its ballet cast and philharmonic orchestra, Pedro was premiered at the Second Festival of Choreographers of Santiago, in 2015.