Invisible

Music by Andrzej Panufnik
Choreographer, Stage and Costume Designer: Nacho Duato
Music Director of the production and Conductor: Alexey Nyaga
Lighting Designer: Nicolas Fischtel
Costume Designer’s Assistant: Alla Marusina
Choreographer’s Assistants: Tony Fabre, Gentian Doda

World premiere: Mikhailovsky Theatre, 23 May 2013

This is a ballet about the complex feeling of excitement that a person gets when surrounded by nature. I want to show this acute feeling, invisible in everyday life, on the stage. The ballet’s colour scheme is  blue, the colour of the sky, and the colour of the world in general. I am reminded of the expressive works of Picasso in his ‘Blue Period’ when he said that he immersed himself in blue. Blue allowed the artist to move away from traditional art and towards abstraction, where he was able to express the immaterial. I would like to achieve the same. 
Nacho Duato

Prelude

Music by George Frideric Handel, Ludwig van Beethoven, Benjamin Britten 
Choreographer, Stage Designer, Costume Designer: Nacho Duato
Lighting Designer: Brad Fields
Costume Production Engineer: Alla Marusina
Musical Director of the production: Valery Ovsyanikov
Choreographer’s Assistants: Zhanna Ayupova, Kirill Myasnikov
In performance elements of scenery and the curtains executed by artist Vyacheslav Okunev are used

Benjamin Britten’s music is performed by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

World premiere: Mikhailovsky Theatre, 14 June 2011 

Prelude is an interpretation of the emotions and impressions which he experienced at the start of a new period of his life — in Russia, in St. Petersburg and with the Mikhailovsky Theatre. The new ballet is not based on one particular subject. The meeting of classical ballet and contemporary dance — two very different worlds, striving for mutual awareness and understanding — form its conceptual core. For all its apparent simplicity, the name of the ballet can be interpreted in a number of different ways. Indeed, its meaning is not just limited to the musical term. It can be assumed that in his new performance, Duato shall attempt to convey every emotional nuance accompanying the convergence of two opposing sources, and their subsequent merging, giving rise to a new life.

White Darkness

Music by Karl Jenkins
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Stage Designer: Jaffar Chalabi
Costume Designer: Lourdes Frнas 
Lighting Designer: Joop Caboort
Costume Technology: Alla Marusina
Choreographer’s Assistant: Thomas Klein
Music Director, Conductor: Marius Stravinsky
Assistant to Musical Director: Igor Tomashevsky

Karl Jenkins’ music is performed by permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd

World premiere: 2001, Madrid 
Premiere of the production at the Mikhailovsky Theatre: 2 May 2014

“...It’s a loose reflection on drug-taking and its influence on our social behaviour, on our possibility to communicate with people around, and on our life in general. The choreographer doesn’t insist on anything, he is a witness, not a judge. His aim is to invite us to meditate on this painful and controversial subject.”