Repertoire Ballet
Art for Life
Ballet
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Ballet gala in support of the National Cancer Institute
Ballet & SĽUK/ Dancing Towards Each Other
Ballet
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Academic and staged folk dance in a friendly confrontation – dance medley
Carmina Burana
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The scenic cantata Carmina Burana by the German composer Carl Orff is one of the most famous musical works. The composer drew on Richard Wagner's concept of the "absolute work of art" in an attempt to create a vision of "theatrum mundi" (theatre of the world) that combines music, movement and speech. The choreography, set to captivating music, was created by Edward Clug, one of today's most sought-after choreographers. The choreography unfolds the evolution of life through the flow of dance images on the stage. The choreographic stage drawing is dominated by the circle, the originating moment for the dancers, the beginning and the end, simplicity and perfection. Carmina Burana's choreographic and staging concept offers a purely visual and energetically hypnotic experience of the merger of music and dance.
The duration of the performance is approximate, as the preview has not been held yet.
Première May 19, 2023
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FASHION BALLET ´22
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Collaboration of domestic choreographers with top Slovak fashion designers.
FASHION BALLET ´23
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The follow-up to the highly successful Fashion Ballet project brings a new edition of four original miniatures, which will feature tandems of choreographers and fashion designers. Fashion will come alive through movement in original choreographies, and vice versa, the fashion designers will illustrate the sculptural beauty of the dancers of the SND Ballet through costumes.
Dramaturgy: Kristián Kohút
INSIDE OUT
The main outline of the intimate dance work by a choreography student from the Department of Dance Production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava, Hana Vidova, is a contrast of physicality, spirituality, strength and fragility, asceticism and sensuality. It is a search for traces of animality in movement through extraordinary imagery. The choreographer focuses on the perception of details and impulses of movement that result in intense emotions from the dance, and her signature draws from a wide range of dance styles. Andrea Pojezdálová's costume design presents sophisticated female silhouettes in shades of black to enhance the magical atmosphere of the work.
Choreography Hana Vidová
Costume Design Andrea Pojezdálová
CHIC NOIR
An intimate choreography is a slightly surreal image of four women preparing for a lavish party in style. Lacko Cmorej, the choreographer, will once again offer a surprising mixture of dance styles and theatricality with an emphasis on character portrayal and comedy - in collaboration with Monika Prikkelová, a significant personality of the domestic and foreign "vogue" scene. The stylish costumes of the fashion designer Terézie Feňovčíková, immersed in black as the colour of the night, are inspired by film and theatre and complete the suggestiveness of dance micro-stories in glamour style.
Choreography Lacko Cmorej, Monika Prikkelová
Costume Design Terézia Feňovčíková
CLIQUE (HOUSE OF COMODITIES)
The movement fresco depicts the forms of the relationship between people and fashion and their interaction. Both creators are searching for the limits between passion and obsession. They ask to what extent fashion, as a phenomenon of beauty and style, influences our everyday lives and when we fall victim to consumerism.
Dominik White Slavkovsky's choreography combines classical dance technique and contemporary dance styles with a dose of humour and irony. The concept of the work is supported by Lenka Sršňová's unmistakable style, her refined play with prints combined with simple designs and sophisticated textile appliqués.
Choreography Dominik White Slavkovský
Costume Design Lenka Sršňová
BezsLovE
The author's manifesto on the importance of freedom, the need for tolerance and respect for the individuality of each person. The creative team, for whom the impulse was the suppression of human rights and the principles of humanism, escaped into an idealised world full of beauty, nature, colour and light in this piece of art.
The choreographer Martin Winter and the fashion designer Marcel Holubec W communicate the meaning of absolute freedom metaphorically - the flight of a bird or the motif of a light feather flying are the supporting elements of the abstract stage shape. The provocative inspiration of the richly shaped Baroque is modified to challenge theatricality and contemporary demands for functionality. The atmosphere of the ballet, which conveys a specific moral appeal and celebrates the diversity and uniqueness of humanity, is enhanced by the music of Jana Kirschner and Juraj Liška.
Choreography Martin Winter
Costume Design Marcel Holubec W
Performers: the soloists and the corpse de ballet of the SND
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
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LA FILLE MAL GARDÉ
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This classical family ballet began its history in 1789. The current production of the ballet La fille mal gardée, about a widow Simone and her vain endeavour to prevent her daughter’s love for a young farmer, carries the signature of the choreographer Frederick Ashton. The popular comedy ballet title with beautiful pas de deux, big corps de ballet character dances and amusing mise-en-scene returns to the stage of the Slovak National Theatre after thirty years. Ashton’s production, with musical arrangements by John Lanchbery and the original sets by Osbert Lancaster, is one of the most frequently performed productions and is the centrepiece of the repertoire of many of the world’s leading ballet companies.
Frederick Ashton’s choreography is performed courtesy of Jean-Pierre Gasquet. This work is presented with the permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited on behalf of Oxford University Press.
Running time: 2 hours with one interval
Première November 18, 2022
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Signatures of the Masters
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The medley Signatures of the Masters brings, in Slovak première, stage pieces that represent the work of four imperative world choreographers of the 20th and 21st centuries – Edwaard Liang, Craig Davidson, William Forsythe and Jerome Robbins. Each is distinctive and unique in terms of movement vocabulary, different perceptions of the dancer's body and individual approach to the adaptation of dance technique into a choreographic text. The four one-act dance compositions are linked together by technical sophistication, emphasis on movement aesthetics and poetics that is largely reflected in the harmony of dance and musical master. The programme is intended to augment the repertoire with works of world modern ballet that represent a major challenge for performers, yet are an attractive delicacy for the audience.
Dramaturgy Kristián Kohút Production Matúš Benža, Katarína Kandríková
THE VERTIGINOUS THRILL OF EXACTITUDE CHOREOGRAPHY William Forsythe MUSIC Franz Schubert STAGE AND LIGHTING DESIGN William Forsythe COSTUME DESIGN Stephen Galloway (Costumes from a production of the Wiener Staatsballett, 2010) STAGING Kathryn Bennetts LIGHTING SUPERVISION Tanja Rühl MURMURATION CHOREOGRAPHY Edwaard Liang MUSIC Ezio Bosso STAGE AND COSTUME DESIGN Edwaard Liang LIGHTING Lisa J. Pinkham LIGHTING SUPERVISION Robert Eisenstein STAGING José Andres Estevez Choreografia Edwaard Liang ENTROPY CHOREOGRAPHY Craig Davidson MUSIC Nicholas Thayer STAGE DESIGN Craig Davidson COSTUME DESIGN Alana Sargent LIGHTING DESIGN Martin Gebhardt STAGING ASSISTANT Alice White THE CONCERT CHOREOGRAPHY Jerome Robbins MUSIC Frédéric Chopin STAGE DESIGN Saul Steinberg COSTUME DESIGN Irene Sharaff COSTUME ADAPTATION Holly Hynes LIGHTING Jennifer Tipton LIGHTING SUPERVISOR Robert Eisenstein STAGING Kipling Houston Running time: 2 hours 20 minutes with two interval Première April 29, 2022 Do you also wish to be among the first to know what is going on at the SND? Leave your contact details with us, and you won’t miss out on any news.
