With eight dancers, a live band, animal heads and knife throwers, it’s fair to say that Jakop Ahlbom bends the world-famous fairy tale entirely to his will. The characters in Swan Lake discover their darker sides, manipulative tendencies, jealousy and vengefulness, as well as the truth that love doesn’t conquer all.

Alamo Race Track transformed the original music by Tchaikovsky into a new style of music. Based on the main themes of it’s original score, we composed new music using a vast amount of synthesizers and samplers, which gave me an opportunity to work really in depth with Ableton Live for a first time.

We also mixed and produced the live recordings made by Thomas Koopmans, together with Frans Hagenaars at SSE Noord.