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.
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Sergej Sergejevič Prokofiev, Michael Corder
Cinderella
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Marking the centenary of SND Ballet
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.
Running time is indicative, as the dress rehearsal is still due for the production.
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Adolphe Charles Adam
Giselle
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A gem of Romantic ballet
Frederick Ashton, John Lanchbery, Louis Joseph Ferdinand Hérold
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
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Edwaard Liang, Craig Davidson, William Forsythe, Jerome Robbins
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
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Piotr Iľjič Čajkovskij, Marius Petipa, Lev I. Ivanov