Schedule for Ballet "Back to Bach" 2022


Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra "Congress"

Dutch National Ballet (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Back to Bach (Return to Bach)

"The troupe from Amsterdam proves that Bach and ballet perfectly suited to each other» (Bachtrack classic guide)

Dutch National Ballet Troupe good reason ranked in the top list of world dance ratings. Critics invariably say "perfected schedule lines, as if penetrating the very essence of music" ... "

Choreographic collage Back to Bach - an exclusive version of the recent premiere touring troupe perekroennaya specifically for the visit to St. Petersburg. If in the original it is a four performances, different musical themes ranging Bach, the new version on the stage Alexandrinka will show five miniatures associative "arising" from Bach and in a way to conceptualize his musical philosophy.

Five sketches created very different contemporary choreographers in the music very different composers - is thinking about going back to basics. About how high art helps to find a common denominator of humanity and kindness. This is, perhaps, the inexplicable magic of the amazing Dutch troupe - telling about the differences and contradictions, they paradoxically able to produce in the viewer's soul harmony.

FANTASIA / FANTASY
Choreography: Hans van Manen.
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach.
Style "Fantasy" is typical of the choreographer: optimal expression, coupled with a perfect structural, clarity and simplicity. Bach choreographer addresses the first time, which is not surprising: As one of the dancers of the troupe, "Hans uses Bach, he feels it."

DUET / DUET
Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon.
Music: Maurice Ravel.
Thoughtful "Piano Concerto in G Major" by Maurice Ravel in the interpretation of one of the most sought-after choreographers of recent decades.

REPLAY / REPLAY
Choreography: Ted Brandsen.
Music: Philip Glass.
"This mystical music. For me, the main thing in it - the theme of the search path: time and again to try to overcome the inevitable, being still doomed to separation and the end ... But I would like everyone to interpret it in their own way. " (Ted Brandsen)

AFFI / Offee
Choreography: Marco Gёke.
Music: Johnny Cash.
Three songs of Johnny Cash inspired Marco Gёke to create a powerful and touching solo «Affi» specially for Marian Rademakera. It happened in 2005, and since then «Affi» not only hit the repertoire of the Stuttgart Ballet and Rotterdam, but also repeatedly performed at various prestigious festivals.

IN LIGHT AND SHADOW / LIGHT AND SHADOW
Choreography by Krzysztof Pastor.
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach.
This half-hour ballet Krzysztof Pastor, on the one hand, inspired by the baroque dance and painting by Vermeer, Rembrandt and Latour, and on the other - is built on contradictions. Here are opposed not only light and shadow, but also cutting-edge line of scenery and abundantly rich in the music of Bach. Contrasts and the dance itself: opening dizzying fragile duo aria from the Goldberg Variations, the action choreography literally plowed into a multicolored and multi-figure painting to the accompaniment of the Third Orchestral Suite. Pastor himself conceived "as a detailed picture of how the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo, where excessive radiant luxury coexists with muted chamber and intimacy."