Drawing from the abundance of his dancing imagination, Jiří Kylián has kept audiences and experts in suspense with his choreographies for decades. One of his most performed works is Petite Mort. This work is based on the extremely popular Adagio movements from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Piano Concertos No. 21 and 23. The beguiling intensity of these slow musical movements forms the counterpoint to an energetic display of male and female attributes that allude elegantly and ambiguously to the sexual ritual of aggression, energy and vulnerability, to the "little death".