For his new work The Place of Choice, Roman Novitzky, Artist in Residence of the Stuttgart Ballet, was inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy. Deviating from Dante's original sequence, Novitzky's piece moves from paradise via an intermediate stage to hell, questioning where we as a society, based on our choices and actions are headed.

Roman Novitzky, the newly appointed artist in residence of the Stuttgart Ballet, is creating his first major work for the stage of the opera house on behalf of ballet director Tamas Detrich.

The Slovakian-born artist is a storyteller who uses modern choreographies to look beneath the surface, who translates his thoughts and feelings into dance in a profound and reflective way.

Inspired by Dante's Divine Comedy, his new piece examines a question that currently concerns us all as a society:

Where is humanity heading?

To paradise or hell?

Who will show us the way?

And:

Do we even have control over it?