One quartet, two visions of life and death

The Seoul Metropolitan Ballet celebrated its second anniversary with a double bill, "Death and the Maiden," which ran Friday to Sunday at the National Theater of Korea's Haeoreum Theater in Jung-gu. The program took Franz Schubert's celebrated string quartet, "Death and the Maiden," as its central motif, setting signature works by two international choreographers side by side: Christian Spuck's "The Seventh Blue" and Alexander Ekman's "Cacti." Though both works began with Schubert's music, the t