Classical Ballet Evening of one-act ballets. XII International Ballet Festival DANCE OPEN Alexandrinsky Imperial Ballet Theatre (established 1756)
Running time: 3 hours 40 minutes
The performance has 2 intermissions
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets. XII International Ballet Festival DANCE OPEN 2022
Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra "Congress"
Classical Ballet in 3 acts
For the first time in the history of the Festival will be held DANCE OPEN evening of modern dance: the program three one-act ballet, whose creators are currently in the focus of attention of the leading ballet critics and journalists around the world.
"Dedication to Stravinsky" Choreography Edward Klug Slovenian National Theatre Maribor
«Spazio-Tempo» («Space-Time") Choreography Jacopo Godunov Dresden Ballet Semperopera
"Classical Symphony" Choreography by Yuri Posokhova Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Act I - "Dedication to Stravinsky" Choreography Edward Klug Slovenian National Theatre Maribor
100 years ago by the legendary Vaslav Nijinsky first staged the ballet "The Rite of Spring" to music by young composer - Igor Stravinsky. Met fierce whistling audience that provocative and wild for the time show. However, witnesses the loud failure performance in the theater on the Champs Elysees guessed in this aggression audience anticipation inevitably impending new wave, to break with tradition, carrying a sense of existence on the stage and a radically different aesthetic. Today, throughout the world choreographers obsessed "Spring" by Stravinsky: the music is infinitely provokes the search for new forms, new means of expression, new meanings ... Such will premiere Balkan choreographer Edward Kluge "Dedication to Stravinsky" in Performing the Slovenian National Theatre Maribor (SNG Maribor), headed by himself Klug is more than ten years. (Russian spectators E.Klyug known for the ballet «QUATRO» and ballet «Radio and Juliet» the music of Radiohead. Gala Program DANCE OPEN-2007 was presented to a number from the ballet performed by Anastasia and Denis Matvienko. Russian premiere of «Radio and Juliet» also a great success.) Powerful energy intensity, attention to musical material, bold compositional findings and stage special effects, unexpected metaphors, interesting reading the roles of men and women in the dance - all these symbolic qualities klyugovskoy doing ballet choreography "Dedication to Stravinsky" ultramodern.
Act II - «Spazio-Tempo» («Space-Time") Choreography Jacopo Godunov Dresden Ballet Semperopera
«Spazio-Tempo» («Space-Time") - yet another example of high-quality contemporary dance that transforms timeless classic tradition. It is a dramatic scene with dynamic expressive plactikoy and interesting interpretation of the role of the chorus in the original music of German experimental electronic-acoustic duo 48nord. Creator of the play - a young Italian choreographer, principal dancer of Frankfurt Ballet Jacopo Godunov. Surprising sophistication and dramatism choreography, resourcefulness in the composition, the impressive use of stage light distinguishes creative choreographer. In the ballet «Spazio-Tempo» read and bright individual style Jacopo Godunov, and echoes of the Art Nouveau style by William Forsythe - one of the pillars of modern dance (head of the Frankfurt Ballet).
Act III - "Classical Symphony" Choreography by Yuri Posokhova Bolshoi Theatre of Russia
Funny, technicality, the humor inherent in the ballet by Yuri Posokhova "Classical Symphony" performed by artists of the Bolshoi Theater will not leave you indifferent, even if you are not very fond of ballet! "Classical Symphony" by Yuri Prokofiev Posokhova - an example of how modern can be the language of pure classical dance in XXI century ". (Anna Gordeeva, "Moscow News") Amazing Prokofiev "theatricality" and cheerful music contribute to the implementation plan choreographer, resulting in a plotless ballet with original choreography of the classical pas, pirouettes and spins, filled with amazing ease and elegance of plastic lines. Fascinating spectacle!
Evening with two intervals.
Schedule for Evening of one-act ballets. XII International Ballet Festival DANCE OPEN 2022
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