World premiere of "Illusive Ball": February 15, 1995
Theater of Chamber Ballet, St. Petersburg
Premiere in the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre: May 27, 1995
Revival: April 5, 2018 World premiere of "Lonesome George": May 8, 2015
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
(Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf Duisburg), Duisburg
World premiere of the "Minus 16": November 11, 1999
Batsheva Dance Company, Lucent Danstheater in The Hague.
Russian premieres of "Lonesome George" and "Minus 16"
at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko
Moscow Academic Music Theatre: April 5, 2018
After seeing Dmitry Bryantsev's "Illusive Ball", the new director of the Music Theatre's ballet company, Laurent Hilaire, said that this production had absolutely to return into the repertory. His decision was unanimously supported by the artists. In this work, Dmitry Bryantsev admiringly pays homage to Romantic ballet. This is the style of Taglioni, seen through the lense of Fokine's stylisation and breathing the spirit of modernity.
"Lonesome George" was named after the giant tortoise who died on the Galápagos Islands in 2012, aged 100. "Loneliness is the principal tragedy of humanity, it can be realised and lived through in expressive dance. I feel that the body is a jail: the inability to transcend our bodies is the starting point where despair in my moves begins", says Marco Goecke about his work.
The sound track for "Minus 16" consists of a wide range of musical compositions from mambo and techno to traditional music from Israel. In his work Ohad Naharin uses dance improvisation and "Gaga", the choreographic language that made him famous.
Bryantsev / Goecke / Naharin - Ballet premiere! Stanislavsky Ballet and Opera theatre
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Premiere performances of "Bryantsev / Goecke / Naharin" coming on April 5, 6, 7 and 8!
After seeing Dmitry Bryantsev's "Illusive Ball", the new director of the Music Theatre's ballet company, Laurent Hilaire, said that this production had absolutely to return into the repertory. His decision was unanimously supported by the artists. In this work, Dmitry Bryantsev admiringly pays homage to Romantic ballet. This is the style of Taglioni, seen through the lense of Fokine's stylisation and breathing the spirit of modernity.
"Lonesome George" was named after the giant tortoise who died on the Galápagos Islands in 2012, aged 100. "Loneliness is the principal tragedy of humanity, it can be realised and lived through in expressive dance. I feel that the body is a jail: the inability to transcend our bodies is the starting point where despair in my moves begins", says Marco Goecke about his work.
The sound track for "Minus 16" consists of a wide range of musical compositions from mambo and techno to traditional music from Israel. In his work Ohad Naharin uses dance improvisation and "Gaga", the choreographic language that made him famous.
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