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Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
November 23, 1999 sees the first performance for an adult audience in the new Royal Opera House. The newly trained ushers are tested during a gala of ballet performed for the construction workers who have worked in the buildng for the past two and half years.
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Language
English
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Experience Alexander Ekman´s exceptional ballet, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, created for the Royal Swedish Ballet with a score by award-winning Mikael Karlsson. This contemporary ballet explores the energy and the mysteries of the summer solstice night in the Scandinavian tradition. The program also features experimental pop singer Anna von Hausswolff, acclaimed percussionist Niklas Brommare, and the classical string quartet Dahlkvistkvartetten.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
First performed at the Kirov Theater in 1930, The Golden Age has as its central theme the battle and triumph of the proletariat over the decadent bourgeoisie. Surprisingly, the score by Dmitri Shostakovich raised political controversies, and the ballet vanished from theaters until 1982, when Grigorovich restaged it with a love story as its central focus. To celebrate Grigorovich's 90th birthday, the Bolshoi has revived this ballet with leading artists...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Stravinsky. This exciting program presents two of his seminal works to scores commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes: The Firebird and Les Noces. Michael Berkeley and Deborah Bull discover more about the ballets and the people who created them. Deborah Bull also dances Nijinsky's version of The Rite of Spring with choreography recreated by Millicent Hodson.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Français
Description
This program travels with the company of the choreographer Hervé Koubi, figurehead of contemporary dance. The trip begins in February 2018 in the United States, where the mixed, modern and raw company is greeted with a standing ovation, to finish two seasons later in Israel. Hervé Koubi's dance, made of poetry and nourished by calligraphy, sculpture, and street dances, is definitely contemporary and full of universality.
7) Ghost Light
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A Ghost Light – a single lamp that illuminates the stage when rehearsals or performances are finished – is part of a long theatrical tradition. Legend says that originally, the night light was for the ghosts of former artists so that they may cavort throughout the night and not disturb or disrupt current performances! At this very moment, because of the pandemic, countless stages, particularly in America, are illuminated by ghost lights.The Hamburg...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse’s curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince’s kiss will break. On her 16th birthday, Aurora discovers the spindle and pricks her finger. She...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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British choroeographer Matthew Bourne has won numerous awards for his dance productions and choreography, including the Laurence Olivier Award, Tony Awards, and Drama Desk Awards. This is Bourne's new production of The Nutracker, which follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross’s Orphanage, through a shimmering winter wonderland, to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland. Influenced by the lavish Hollywood musicals...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Founded in 1959, Cuba‘s leading contemporary dance company has had a profound influence on Cuban dance and dancers. Over the past 53 years Danza Contemporánea de Cuba has evolved into an exotic hybrid of contemporary, classical, and Caribbean styles. They move with an old-fashioned juiciness, reminiscent of the Martha Graham Company, but without being old-fashioned. Expect an exciting modern dance performance to the beats of the future from choreographer...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tamara Rojo, world-famous ballerina and artistic director of English National Ballet, takes us backstage as she prepares for one of classical ballet's biggest challenges—the dual lead in Swan Lake. It is the ultimate role for any dancer, requiring her to play the completely contrasting characters—Odette the White Swan and Odile the Black Swan.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
How did twenty retired men and women from Marseille find themselves in Paris' most prestigious contemporary dance theater? Nurses, housewives, teachers and doctors—aged between 60 and 87 years old and without any dance experience—perform Stravinsky's masterpiece, The Rite of Spring. The fruit of a collaboration over seven years with the ground-breaking choreographer, Thierry Thieû Niang, the show has been acclaimed throughout France.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Swan Lake remains the quintessential ballet. Featuring the unforgettable corps dancers moving in magical unison as the majestic, glimmering swans, this ballet has left audiences breathless for generations. This romantic fable of ill-fated passion, dreamlike transformation, and ultimate forgiveness set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious score was fashioned from both Russian and German folk tales.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella is a thrilling and evocative love story told in dance. A reinterpretation of the classic fairy tale, it features heart-stopping choreography and vivid, truthful characters. Originally mounted in 1997 but recreated as a completely fresh production for its most recent run, this is one of New Adventures’ most popular and beloved creations. Set in London during the Second World War, the drama features Cinderella and a dashing...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
What is life like for a dancer when they can no longer dance? Inspired by Merrill Ashley's departure from the New York City Ballet as an acclaimed principal dancer, this new documentary captures the poignancy of this life turning point. After a struggle to find her next step, today Merrill Ashley travels around the world teaching Balanchine to dance companies that perform his works as once she did. This is the story of any dancer—or in truth any...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The double Olivier Award-winning show is Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of obsession, possession, and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page, played by Ashley Shaw who won a National Dance Award for her performance, lives to dance, but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion: the composer Julian Craster played by original cast member Dominic North, and legendary impresario...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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After causing an immediate sensation when it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns with a fresh look for the 21st century. Still retaining the iconic elements of the original production loved by millions around the world, award-winning designers, Lez Brotherston and Paule Constable, alongside Bourne, have created an exciting re-imagining of the classic production. Thrilling, audacious, witty and emotive, this...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Matthew Bourne‘s The Car Man is one of modern dance’s most thrilling and entertaining shows and a signature production for Matthew Bourne’s company New Adventures. First seen in 2000, when it won the Evening Standard Award for “Musical Event of the Year”, it has proved to be a smash-hit in the UK and around the world. This recording for Sky Arts was made at Sadler’s Wells during the production’s most recent revival.The show is loosely...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Swan Lake remains the quintessential ballet. Featuring the unforgettable corps dancers moving in magical unison as the majestic, glimmering swans, this ballet has left audiences breathless for generations. This romantic fable of ill-fated passion, dreamlike transformation, and ultimate forgiveness set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious score was fashioned from both Russian and German folk tales.
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