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our season brochure

Season
2016 - 2017
A g e n c e
Artistique
Production
D a n s e
Le Trait d’Union – 84 rue de la Folie-Mericourt 75011 Paris – France
+33 5 45 94 75 95 – contact@ltddanse.com
Alonzo King LINES Ballet
(US)
Pieces on tour:
• Shostakovich
• Rasa
• Biophony
• Writing Ground
Ando Danse Compagnie
(FR)
Pieces on tour:
• Akiko l’amoureuse
• The Firebird
© Gregory Batardon
© RJ Muna
Ballet du Grand Théâtre
de Genève (CH)
Pieces on tour:
• Tristan & Isolde
• Giselle
• The Nutcracker
BJM - Les Ballets Jazz
de Montréal (CA)
Pieces on tour:
• Rouge
• Kosmos
• Harry
• Mono Lisa
• Closer
© Gregory Batardon
© Gregory Batardon
IT Dansa (ES)
Pieces on tour:
• Sechs Tanze
• In Memoriam
• Nacked thought
• Whim
Kidd Pivot (CA)
Piece on tour:
• Betroffenheit
© Jörg Baumann
© Josep Aznar
Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo
(MC)
Pieces on tour:
• Choré
• LAC
Pieces on tour:
• Beauty and the Beast
• Cinderella
• Nocturnes
• Estro
© Olivier Houeix
© Alice Blangero
Yacobson Ballet (RU)
Pieces on tour:
• Giselle
• The Nutcracker
• Swan Lake
• Paquita
• Chopiniana
© Yacobson Ballet
Malandain Ballet Biarritz
(FR)
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ALONZO KING LINES BALLET
© RJ Muna
Director / Choreographer Alonzo King
12 dancers
Combining a classical technique with personal intervention, Alonzo King projects
his performers in a nonstop dance translating into a staggering articulation of
bodies.
After a dancer's career at Alvin Ailey Company and American Ballet Theatre,
Alonzo King moved to San Francisco and, in 1982, founded LINES Ballet which
is one of the most prestigious and exciting companies in North America. Highly
recognized in the United States, he has worked regularly with opera, television and
cinema. At the same time, he is invited to work with the largest companies around
the world. William Forsythe stated that “Alonzo King is one of the few, true Ballet
Masters of our times.”
Admirer of Balanchine, he creates bridges between tradition and modernity and
develops an inventive, sensual and vibrant dance with impeccable classically
trained dancers.
Through his collaborations with artists from different disciplines and cultures, he
proposes a work that is always new and fed by cultural diversity. As a visionary
choreographer, Alonzo King is renowned for his incredible ability to grip the
audience with a real humanity and a deep sense of freedom.
“Alonzo King belongs to this specific vein: a twisted, swirling and assymmetrical
classical dance – on pointes for women – spiraling the body to the fingertips.”
Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde
“Soul and extreme technicality are rare companions in the art world, perhaps
because the brain and the gut speak fundamentally different languages. There
exist some rare artists, however, who are fluent in both. By most counts…
choreographer Alonzo King is among them.”
San Francisco Weekly
“Despite the fact that Alonzo King has put his stamp on dancers' bodies and what
we used to think of as ballet for over two decades, he still manages to surprise us"
Dance view Times
Season Highlights
For the fall season program
Francisco in November 2015,
King LINES Ballet will perform
collaboration with the Grammy
winning singer Ms. Lisa Fischer.
in San
Alonzo
a new
Award-
For the spring season, Alonzo King will
collaborate on a new piece with two
American jazz greats: Jason Moran and
Charles Lloyd, who will perform live at
the San Francisco premiere in April. He
will also create a piece to the sounds of
Edward Nelson, a baritone with the San
Francisco Opera.
This season, Alonzo King was named one
of the Doris Duke Foundation Artists.
This award recognizes his on-going
contributions to the field of contemporary
dance and was based on his exceptional
creativity, and his continuing potential to
make significant contributions to the field.
More information
www.linesballet.org
Company tour calendar
September 2015
05: Chico (US) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet / Biophony
13: Laguna Beach (US) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet / Biophony
16: Los Angeles (US) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet / Biophony
October 2015
09, 10: Villefontaine (FR) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet /
Writing Ground
12: Privas (FR) – Shostakovich / Rasa
16: Neuss (DE) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet / Writing Ground
March 2016
06-15: San Francisco (US) – Fall season program
11: Madison (US) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet / Biophony
13: Detroit (US) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet / Biophony
18, 19: Carmel (US) – Concerto for two violins / Mens’ Quintet / Biophony
21: Burlington (US) – TBD
January 2016
April 2016
24: Brookfield (US) – Concerto for two violins / Biophony
November 2015
15, 16: New York (US) – Biophony
19, 20: Blagnac (FR) – Shostakovich / Writing Ground
22: Mérignac (FR) – Shostakovich / Writing Ground
24: Carquefou (FR) – Shostakovich / Rasa
26, 27: Saint-Nazaire (FR) – Shostakovich / Rasa
30: Perpignan (FR) – Shostakovich / Rasa
February 2016
02, 03: Echirolles (FR) – Shostakovich / Rasa
05: Annemasse (FR) – Shostakovich / Rasa
22-30: San Francisco (US) – Spring season program
May 2016
01: San Francisco (US) – Creations
07: Ljubljana (SI) – Concerto for two violins / Men’s Quintet / Writing Ground
10: Ludwigshafen (DE) – Shostakovich / Rasa
13: Bonn (DE) – Shostakovich / Rasa
17, 18: Rouen (FR) – Shostakovich / TBD
20: Le Perreux-sur-Marne (FR) – Shostakovich / Rasa
22: Dublin (IE) – Shostakovich / Rasa
ON TOUR
SEASON 2015 / 2016
VIDEO
Shostacovich
Choreography Alonzo King
Music Dmitri Shostakovich
Created in 2014 – Duration 32 mn
Like an arrow poised for flight, an undercurrent of restless agitation pervades
Alonzo King’s work set to four Shostakovich string quartets. The music wavers
in a state of crystalline suspension, pushing the dancers’ tensile strength to
the limit as they revel in the space between harmony and discord, in the long
arc before an earthbound fall.
“Driven by the music the duets evince a sense of ferocious urgency about them but stay
focused on the details in the way a leg is grabbed, a head pushes against of a torso or chin
meets chin. You can almost see the way life-giving energy flows through those encounters.”
Rita Feciano, Dance View Times
Rasa
Music scored and played by Zakir Hussain and Kala Ramnath
VIDEO
© Margo Moritz
This collaboration between King and Hussain is both a continuation of a deep tradition
-- the interdependence of dance and tabla music as art forms -- and an expression
of the contemporary global vision of both artists. The complex rhythmic systems of
tabla, like the technique of western classical ballet, demand the devotion and utter
concentration of the artists who practice them; and yet, at the heart of the music
and the dance, there is a sense of openness, of arising in joy, of soaring beyond the
structures and being held there, aloft.
Biophony
Music, Soundscape by Bernie Krause, Richard Blackford
© Margo Moritz
VIDEO
© Marty Shol
"Watching Babatunji and especially Jeffrey Van Sciver reflect the dazzling velocity of Hussain’s
vocalizations and declamation in every flick of the wrist and twist of the ankle is something you don’t
forget"
San Francisco Chronicle
Biophony is a piece in collaboration with natural soundscape artist Bernie Krause
and composer Richard Blackford. For more than forty years, Krause has traveled
the globe with microphones tuned to the earth and its creatures. On stage these
soundscapes reveal an intricate living orchestra cradling nature in suspension.
The dancers’ senses are heightened amid calls of killer whales and tree frogs;
their sweat seems to mingle with the mud, salt, and dust of their new sonic
environments. They dance without ego, immersed in their song, unaware of being
watched. We see classical technique refracted, distilled to an elemental purity
that reminds us of our fellowship with all creatures; we see shoulder blades recast
as vestigial wings. Biophony takes place not at the threshold of the civilized and
primal, but at the rejoining of two worlds never meant to be apart.
The program on tour will be adjusted according to the new works of the
upcoming season.
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Ballet Du Grand Théâtre de Genève
© Gregory Batardon
© Gregory Batardon
Director Philippe Cohen
22 dancers Since its creation in 1962, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève has been
exploring the various styles of dance from the 20th Century. Today, under
Philippe Cohen’s dynamic leadership, the company is following the same
artistic direction invested in choreographical creation while keeping close
the founding principles of dance.
The numerous rewritings of repertoire pieces by some of the most exciting
and breakthrough choreographers are part of this prestige. Composed by
22 classically trained dancers, the company is currently one of the leading
dance companies on the international scene. Its specificity lays within
Philippe Cohen’s well-suited choices of dancers and in his high standard of
artistic vision, leading the company and guest choreographers in a clearly
defined direction.
Two pieces are created each year for its Genevan season. Then, as a
touring company, it’s around the world that the company mostly performs
its diverse programs.
“Philippe Cohen, seems to have a taste for understated choreographic
modernists and for zanily but unobtrusively individual performers, all of them
exceptionally supple ballet-trained dancers. [...] May they soon return.”
Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times
“Without doubt one of the best European companies, which fits just as well in
the neoclassical register as with the contemporary.”
Paris Capitale
ballet
du grand théâtre de genève
Season Highlights
This season Philippe Cohen asked
the French choreographer Claude
Brumachon to create in May 2016,
for the ballet of the Grand Théâtre,
his version of Carmina Burana. The
choreographer
approuched
this
ballet as an act of multidimensional
artistic faith with the desire to show
how the body could express virtuosity,
sensations and emotions. In a general
way his work is inspired by the living and
the being, through what humans show,
through their relationships with each
other, through the reminiscences of
those emotions.
More information
www.geneveopera.ch
September 2015
12, 13: Sao Paulo (BR) – LUX / Glory
19, 20: Rio de Janeiro (BR) – LUX / Glory
November 2015
21-29: Genève (CH) – The Nutcracker
December 2015
05, 06: Saint-Etienne (FR) – The Nutcracker
09-18: Lyon (FR) (Maison de la Danse) – The Nutcracker
January 2016
15, 16: Alès (FR) – The Nutcracker
22, 23: Fréjus (FR) – The Nutcracker
27: Ferrara (IT) – The Nutcracker
30, 31: Vicenza (IT) – The Nutcracker
February 2016
06, 07: Neuchâtel (CH) – Tristan & Isolde
March 2016
08: Caen (FR) – Tristan & Isolde
10, 11: Caen (FR) – LUX / Glory
13: Meudon (FR) – LUX / Glory
15, 16: La Rochelle (FR) – LUX / Glory
19: Le Creusot (FR) – Tristan & Isolde
23-26, 29-31: Paris (FR) (Théâtre National de Chaillot) – Tristan & Isolde
April 2016
01: Paris (FR) – Tristan & Isolde
22, 23: Shanghai (CN) – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
29, 30: Pekin (CN) – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
May 2016
13-22: Genève (CH) – Carmina Burana (premieres)
26-28: Sceaux (FR) – Tristan & Isolde
SEASON 2015 / 2016
TRistan & Isolde,
Greet the world for me !
VIDEO
ON TOUR
Choreography Joelle Bouvier
Music Richard Wagner
After having shown us her vision of Romeo and Juliet, Joëlle Bouvier wishes us to
share with her those moments of ecstasy in which hate and extreme passion burn in
the same fire. Suffering and conflict seem to resolve themselves into night and death.
Joëlle Bouvier has changed certain aspects of the Tristan and Isolde’s story to make
them more abstract, to avoid telling the tale in an overly narrative or realistic manner.
She instead chooses to express herself in a rather more dreamlike and metaphorical
style, bringing out the main themes of the work which are frustrated love, betrayal,
resentment and forgiveness.
The Nutcracker
Choreography Jeroen Verbruggen
Musc Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky
VIDEO
“This intelligently produced ballet has reduced the three acts of this opera to an hour and a half of pure dance,
bringing us the essential aspects of this musical drama and perhaps a little more, because ultimately the
tortuous bodily movements marvellously combine with the Wagnerian aspect of the music.”
Agnès Izrine, Danser Canal Historique
Jeroen Verbruggen’s enchanting fairy tale full of exuberant joy and lyrical tenderness.
In his extremely personal choreographic style, he offers an original take on Marius
Petipa’s 1892 ballet masterpiece to Tchaikovsky’s celebrated music. In a production
of “Baroque” proportions, he focuses on the figure of Marie, a young girl on the brink
of womanhood and captivated by its mystery, and Drosselmeyer, a circus ringmaster
in whom the prince that Marie must free is hiding. Jeroen Verbruggen’s twirling,
virtuosic dance takes his audience to Alice’s wonderland, a dreamscape of swirling
rainbow hues, carefree to the point of frivolity, running the gamut of sombre, gay and
absurd moods; to a world where his characters multiply and begin speaking to our
inner child.
GLORY
Choreography Andonis Foniadakis
Music Georg Friedrich Händel
Additional musics Julien Tarride
VIDEO
“This work is a fine success... The movements, gestures and attitudes all come across as being totally
new, never seen or explored before, although the overall effect leaves one with a delicate impression
of timeless harmony and classicism.”
Pascale Zimmermann, Tribune de Genève
For Glory, Andonis Foniadakis has chosen the sparkling and architectural sonorities
of an uncontested Baroque master: Georg Friedrich Händel. The dancers’ bodies
intertwine in a symbiosis that is sometimes smooth, tense, extroverted, or minimalist,
but always governed by the idea of being “in between”, which imbues the movement
with its special quality and mastery. In this piece, rather than writing a dialog between
bodies, dance, and music, he has created an embodiment of music, a way for bodies
to become pure music.
© Photos Gregory Batardon
Other pieces on tour
LUX – Choreography Ken Ossola, music Gabriel Fauré
Carmina Burana – Choreography Claude Brumachon, music Carl Orff
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BJM – LES BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL
Artistic Director Louis Robitaille
14 dancers
© Benjamin Von Wong
Embedded in the international dance landscape, BJM – Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal
has been constantly growing with all the vitality and open-mindedness which have
characterized this company since its creation in 1972. Since Louis Robitaille's
appointment as artistic director in 1998, the company has opened itself up to
more contemporary artistic currents and updated its artistic mission. Once imbued
with modern jazz’s innovative spirit, it now leans on the mixing of classical, jazz and
contemporary dance techniques with other fields as theater, circus, visual arts or
modern music.
The artists are involved in the creation process. Resident choreographers are invited
to develop their own research with the company. While bringing their own dance
culture and without losing sight of creating a piece true to the company’s spirit, they
all contribute to develop a repertory specific to BJM.
Through all these works, Louis Robitaille also wants to pay tribute to the art of
movement, its infinite diversity and beauty, and the potential that lies in the body to
influence the human soul. It’s a matter of entertainment, not as an obstacle for man
to think of the nothingness of his own condition, but rather like something which will
momentarily divert us from the essential things in life to allow us to reach this essence.
“BJM didn’t disappoint, delivering a solidly entertaining and impeccably-danced
program.”
Steve Sucato, Dance Tabs
“Rarely do we have the privilege to witness such a display of excellence. Les
Ballets Jazz de Montréal, credited in having some of the best dancers in the
world, truly lived up to its reputation.”
M. P., Le Midi Libre
Season Highlights
This season, Les Ballets Jazz de
Montreal will be focusing on the Israeli
choreographer Itzik Galili by presenting
two of his pieces.
First of all, Mono Lisa in October 2015.
The music of this duet is created from
typewriter's sound. In this special
surrounding, filled with sounds and
visions of iron and steel, a couple
twists and turns, twines and entwines
in extraordinary convolutions and rapid
pas de deux. These incredible acrobatics
are executed with breathtaking ease.
During the summer 2016, the
company will also present a second
piece from Itzik Galili, Balcao.
More information
www.bjm.com
OctobER 2015
04: Akron (US) – Closer /Rouge / Kosmos
07, 08: Los Angeles (US) – Zero in on / Night Box /
Harry / Closer
23: Sainte-Hyacinthe (CA) – Kosmos / Mono Lisa /
Rouge
24: Val Morin (CA) – Danse 2
29: Mont-Laurier (CA) – Kosmos / Mono Lisa / Rouge
NovembER 2015
17, 18: Rome (IT) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
20: Massy (FR) – Mono Lisa / Rouge / Harry
24: Leverkusen (DE) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
27: Villingen-Schwenningen (DE) – Mono Lisa /
Kosmos / Harry
29: Friedrichshafen (DE) – Mono Lisa / Rouge /
Harry
DEcembeR 2015
02-05: Montréal (CA) – Rouge / Mono Lisa /
Kosmos
JanUARY 2016
13-17: Philadelphia (US) – Rouge / Mono Lisa /
Kosmos
18: New York (US) – Rouge / Kosmos
29: Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (CA) – Danse 2
FEBRUARY 2016
08: Saskatoon (CA) – Rouge / Zero in on / Kosmos
11: North Battleford (CA) – Rouge / Zero in on
/ Kosmos
13: Banff (CA) – Rouge / Mono Lisa / Kosmos
18: Medicine Hat (CA) – Rouge / Zero in on / Kosmos
20: Saint-Albert (CA) – Rouge / Mono Lisa / Kosmos
24: Nanaimo (CA) – Rouge / Mono Lisa / Kosmos
26, 27: Victoria (CA) – Rouge / Mono Lisa / Kosmos
MarCH 2016
02: Avignon (FR) – Closer / Kosmos / Harry
04: Miramas (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
05: Sainte-Maxime (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos
/ Harry
08: Mérignac (FR) – Mono Lisa / Rouge / Harry
10: Mont-de-Marsan (FR) – Mono Lisa / Rouge
/ Harry
12: San Sebastian (ES) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
15: Machecoul (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
17: Ancenis (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
22: Esch-sur-Alzette (LU) – Rouge / Mono Lisa /
Kosmos
24: Villefranche-sur-Saône (FR) – Mono Lisa /
Rouge / Harry
27: Cannes (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
29: Compiègne (FR) – Mono Lisa / Rouge / Harry
31: Rennes (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
APril 2016
01: Rennes (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
03: Argenteuil (FR) – Mono Lisa / Kosmos / Harry
05: Saint-Germain-en-Laye (FR) – Mono Lisa /
Rouge / Harry
15: Victoriaville (CA) – Zero in on / Kosmos / Rouge
16: Lachine (CA) – Danse 2
23: Montréal (CA) – Danse 2
27: Saint-Laurent (CA) – Danse 2
29: Mercier (CA) – Danse 2
MaY 2016
04, 05: College Park (US) – Closer / Kosmos / Rouge
07: Allentown (US) – Closer / Kosmos / Rouge
24-29: New York (US) – Rouge / Mono Lisa / Kosmos
SEASON 2015 / 2016
ROUGE
Choreography Rodrigo Pederneiras
Music Paul Baillargeon and les frères Grand
VIDEO
ON TOUR
This creation by Rodrigo Pederneiras is an ode to resilience, a discreet tribute
to Native peoples and their musical and cultural legacy. Underlying the work are
themes of confrontation, the clash of cultures, power struggles between the
dominant and the dominated, and what it means to belong to a community. Direct,
genuine and raw, the dance is performed vigorously, at full throttle. The ensemble
dances as a single entity, suggesting by the force of its impact the idea of escape or
flight, a human migration, anxiety swelling with each new movement. The dancers
convey drama and strength, a sense of urgency, of pain and separation, surging
relentlessly toward a point of crisis until the excess of impulse and tension is
exorcised, reaching at last a state of grace.
© Raphaelle Bob Garcia
“If sounds guide the senses, in this piece of extraordinary energy and marvellous continuity, it is
the equilibrium of the choreography that dictates the law of nature. The bodies release a primitive
power that brings genres together.”
Simone Azzoni, L’Arena
VIDEO
Kosmos
Choreography Andonis Foniadakis
Music Julien Tarride
Andonis Foniadakis draws his inspiration from the frenetic pace of everyday
urban life. His observations were the trigger for creating choreography
inspired by the movements of crowds, moments of agitation, and the hustle
and bustle of the city. Andonis searches for a counterbalance, bringing
beauty to the fore and turning frenetic movement into a dance that brings
people together in a joyous and liberating moment. This is a dance based
on clear movement, where a mingling clan of dancers must come to terms
with the presence of others. Once again this work bears the distinctive BJM
signature characterized by pure and festive energy.
HARRY
Choreography Barak Marshall
Music Balkan Brass Band, Tommy Dorsey, Wayne Newton
VIDEO
© Raphaelle Bob Garcia
“The choreography features the kind of fearless, dissident aesthetic that many classically
trained dancers can’t pull off, but BJM’s dancers throw themselves headlong into the
challenge. It all makes for addictive entertainment.”
Martha Schabas, The Globe and Mail
Barak Marshall was inspired by the inner battles we all wage. “Life is a constant
struggle,” he says,“in which we are continually faced with conflicts with regard to
culture, gender, species.” This piece revolves around the character of Harry, who
struggles to overcome both physical and existential forces. Harry underscores
a recurrent theme in human interactions: conflicts and our ability to transcend
them. Set to a score combining jazz, Israeli folksongs and traditional music, this
work emphasizes a recurrent theme opus made of hope and humor.
© Gregory Batardon
“The dancers have mastered the delicate and fiery universe of Barak, where every movement is
intense... Between beautiful pictures and a very elaborated writing of the choreography, Harry perfectly matches with the undeniable talent of BJM. A magnificent piece.”
Sophie Lesort, Danser Le Mag
Other pieces on tour
Mono Lisa – Choreography Itzik Galili, music Tomas Höfs with Itzik Galilii
Closer – Choreography Benjamin Millepied, music Philip Glass
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LES BALLETS DE MONTE-CARLO
© Alice Blangero
Director / Choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot
50 dancers
It was in 1993 that Jean-Christophe Maillot took the reins of the remarkable
Ballets de Monte-Carlo, as a choreographer and a director. His aim was
not to elevate the company to the level of a shrine and to remain there,
but rather to take a long-term path, forming a link between generations.
Touring a part of the year, the company – counting forty five excellent and
mature dancers – is today present on the greatest international stages.
Jean-Christophe Maillot, of whom Rosella Hightower liked to say that "his
life was just a union of opposites", mixes his dance with theater and circus
art, moves it within the plastic arts world, nurishes it with diverse scores
and forms of litterature. His repertoire digs in the art world, at its widest
sense.
Diaghilev dreamt of creating in Monaco a place for artistic ebullience that
would never sleep. His dream came true with the Monaco Dance Forum –
an international window for multiple forms of dance offering various shows,
exhibitions, workshops, conferences and the Princess Grace Academy
which is a very high level training dance school.
“They form one of the best companies you can find – a master troupe,
magnificently harmonious despite the diverse origins and training of its
dancers. A homogeneity which does not equate to uniformity (which is too
often the case with academic troupes), but at the heart of which personalities
seem to blossom joyously and, owing to their differences, make the whole
vibrate and sparkle like the many facets of an enormous jewel.”
Raphaël de Gubernatis, Le Nouvel Observateur
“Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo have something startling and fine to show [...]
Virtuosity comes in different shades here.”
Anna Kisselgoff, New York Times
Season Highlights
This season marks the 30th anniversary of
Les Ballets de Monte Carlo. The first highlight
of this special season will be the creation of
Presque Rien in October 2015.
In December, the company will perform Casse
noisette Compagnie that Jean-Christophe
Maillot created for his 20 years as head of
the company. The Ballet will be broadcasted
live on December 30th and several moviestheaters over the world.
In April 2016, dancers will bring a special
evening with Jirí Kylián, who has become
“a intimate friend of the company” over the
years. This “anniversary line-up” promises
to be spectacular and many facets of the
choreographer shall be revealed.
The season will end in July with the creations
of two young choreographers: Jeroen
Verbrugen with his offbeat and wacky universe
and Vladimir Varnava, seen as a rising star
in the world of dance thanks to his singular
choreographic vision.
More information
www.balletsdemontecarlo.com
OCTOber 2015
07-10: Monaco (MC) – Imprevus I
22-25: Monaco (MC) – Entrelacs / Creation
30, 31: La Havane (CU) – Cinderella
November 2015
01: La Havane (CU) – Romeo and Juliet
21: Lugano (CH) – LAC
DECember 2015
12-13: Monaco (MC) – Les inattendus
29-31: Monaco (MC) – The Nutcracker
January 2016
02-04: Monaco (MC) – The Nutcracker
14: Ludwigsburg (DE) – Altro Canto / Vers un Pays Sage
16, 17: Reims (FR) – Altro Canto / Vers un Pays Sage
19, 20: Cergy-Pontoise (FR) – Altro Canto / Vers un Pays Sage
22-24: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (FR) – LAC
February 2016
11-13: Costa Mesa (US) – Choré
18-20: New York (US) – Cinderella
APRIL 2016
06-09: Monaco (MC) – Imprevus II
28-30: Monaco (MC) – Kylián evening program
May 2016
01: Monaco (MC) – Kylian evening program
04-08: Bruxelles (BE) – Romeo and Juliet
18-21: Monaco (MC) – Imprevus III
June 2016
17, 18: Baden Baden (DE) – LAC (with orchestra)
21, 22: Ludwigshafen (DE) – LAC (with orchestra)
July 2016
06, 07: Cologne (DE) – Choré
21-24: Monaco (MC) – Creation by Cherkaoui
28-31: Monaco (MC) – L'Enfant et les sortilèges / Le Baiser de la fée
SEASON 2015 / 2016
Choré
Choreography Jean-Christophe Maillot
Music John Cage, Yan Maresz, Bertrand
Maillot, Danny Elfman, Daniel Ciampolini
VIDEO
© Hans Gerritsen
With Choré, Jean-Christophe Maillot momentarily
abandons the world of great narrative ballets to devote
himself to these short, abstract pieces that characterize
both his work and his way of thinking. Composed of five
separate sections, Choré' s topic is the emergence of
musical theatre in the United States during The Great
Depression. Evoking the lopsided walk of primitive man
or even Saint Vitus’ dance of fools, the first moments
of Choré underline that dance which primarily obeys an
urge. Jean-Christophe Maillot, pondering on the nature
of this urge, asks himself whether we express our
desire to rise into the air or on the contrary, to anchor
ourselves more firmly to the ground.
“The show explores the
implantation as much as
the suspensions and looks
into the social, historical
and political context that
saw this kind of musical
development, from Broadway
to the street and its water
puddles. Some scenes are
terribly impressing, like the
one where, in a breathtaking
solo, Mimoza Koike dives
into a post-Hiroshima dark
dance. The dancer finishes
exhausted and crying.”
© Hans Gerritsen
Marie-Christine Vernay,
Libération
© Angela Sterling
Lac
Choreography Jean-Christophe Maillot
Music Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky
VIDEO
ON TOUR
It is a huge challenge for any choreographer to tackle
the legendary piece Swan Lake which is so well-known
throughout the world. With this project which has been
dear to his heart for ten years, the choreographer
worked with the writer Jean Rouaud, 1990 Prix Goncourt
winner, to bring a new drama to this giant of the classic
repertoire. Together they have adapted the timeless
story of Siegfried and Odette so that this narrative
resonates with our own questioning. Jean-Christophe
Maillot presents a group of high-level artists.
“Maillot has a terrific sense
of space in handling large
scenes and a keen eye for
details such as the arms
ballet in the trio of the
domineering queen of the
night and her two ominous
subordinates. The ballet
was intense and Swan will
never be the same after
the tempestuous Lac.”
Ora Brafman, The
Jerusalem Post
“This version of LAC is
truly magnificent, a piece
where
classical
and
contemporary currents meet beyond Time. Here only quality
matters, and you can feel it in every single move.”
© Angela Sterling
Marta Carrasco, ABC
“A cinematic choreography... The choreographer and director
concluded this fascinating and grandiose evening in many
aspects, with a dance climax. Yes, dance can be so beautiful.
The ballet is so beautiful. And it will continue like this until JeanChristophe Maillot makes his farewell.”
Harmut Regitz, Tanz Magazine
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IT DANSA
Artistic Director Catherine Allard
18 dancers
IT Dansa is a young dance company included in the framework of the Theatre Institute’s
post-graduate dance course in Barcelona. It comprises some 18 young and highlytalented dancers. Selected during auditions, they receive a two-year grant. During this
period, they are led to work with some of the best teachers and choreographers and
to perform throughout a vast network of theatres and festivals. This training programme is an exceptional springboard allowing over 80% of these
young dancers to directly join the ranks of a professional dance company. So far, IT
Dansa has premiered over thirty pieces from emerging talents, and from renowned
choreographers such as Jirí Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, Rui Horta, Alexander
Ekman, and Ramon Oller, to name but a few.
More information
www.institutdelteatre.org
After a career in dance at the Nederland Dans Theater and then Nacho Duato, where
she was the star for many years, Catherine Allard has directed the company since its
foundation in 1997. She focuses on developing the personality of the dancers as well
as allowing them to acquire movement and an alternative dimension of their body in
space.
During their first European tour in 2015, IT Dansa had a resounding success with
audience and professionals, a nice discovery for all.
December 2015
15, 17: Barcelona (ES) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
20: Barcelona (ES) – TBD
JanUArY 2016
08: Sant Cugat del Vallès (ES) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
12, 13: Valence (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
15: Creil (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
FEBRUArY 2016
03-05: Barcelona (ES) – Minus 16
MarCH 2016
02: Cholet (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
05: Fouesnant (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
08: Cognac (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
15: Boulogne-Billancourt (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
17: Leverkusen (DE) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
19: Le Blanc-Mesnil (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
22: Roanne (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
24: Andrézieux Bouthéon (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
APril 2016
02: Saint-Louis (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
05, 06: Villefontaine (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
08: Thonon-les-Bains (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
10: Maisons-Alfort (FR) – Un Ballo / Wad Ras / Minus 16
29: Barcelona (ES) – TBD
June 2016
11: Terrassa (ES) – TBD
© Photos Ros Ribas
SEASON 2015 / 2016
Whim
Choreography Jirí Kylián
Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Created in 1986 and adapted by IT Dansa in
2005 – Duration 16 mn
Choreography Alexander Ekman
Music Antonio Vivaldi, Marcelle de Lacour,
Edmundo Ros, Nina Simone
VIDEO
SECHS TÄNZE
VIDEO
ON TOUR
In Memoriam
NAKED THOUGHTS
Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Music A Filetta
Created in 2004 and adapted by the company in
Choreography Rafael Bonachela
Music Ramon Balagué
Created in 1999 and adapted by IT Dansa in
The bond between reality and memory is at the core of In
Memoriam. Going back to our memories helps us to grasp
the reality of the present. In this piece, the dancers explore
the movements of attraction and repulsion, magnetism and
antimagnetism, in order to examine the meaning of the
word ‘harmony’. Tenderness (attraction) and aggression
(repulsion) spring from the same source in an intimate
game of polarization.
VIDEO
“The human being is an amusing creature...
Happy, sad, angry, nervous, stressed, worried or disappointed...
For each of us these are aspects of an 'emotional journey'
which can prove exhausting. I wanted to present humans in a
different light. To take a look at us from a different angle. To
illustrate this "emotional journey" we have created a new kind
of human species. Characters who are almost comical, with
whom we can sometimes identify. Whim is a piece examining
the way we preserve our mental health, while deep down
madness takes possession of us. The piece offers a variety of
situations inspired by real life. Little by little, I became aware
that we had created a sort of bizarre, dark and sad music.
And in the end, you don't really know if you should laugh or not.
It's amusing but it's not really funny. It's sad but not really sad.
It's pleasant without really being so.”
Alexander Ekman
VIDEO
“Two centuries separate us from the time when Mozart wrote
his German Dances. A historical period shapped considerably
by wars, revolutions, and all sorts of social upheavals. With this
in mind, I found it impossible to simply create different dance
numbers reflecting merely the humor and musical brilliance of
the composer. Instead, I have set six seemingly non-sensical
acts, which obviously ignore their surroundings. They are
squeezed in face of the present troubled world, which most
of us for some unspecified reason carry in our souls. Although
the entertaining quality of Mozart' s Sechs Tänze enjoys great
general popularity, it shouldn't only be regarded as burlesque.
Its humor should serve as a vehicle to point towards our relative
values. Mozart's ability to react upon difficult circumstances
with a selfpreserving outburst of nonsensical poetry is well
known.”
Jirí Kylián
Naked Thoughts is characterized by energy, dynamics and
technique. Eight dancers embark on a journey through
movement and feelings, sometimes complicated, dangerous,
and ambiguous. This trip is like a struggle against their
emotional demons and their physical barriers. The piece is
inspired by the poetry of the artist Ainize Txopitea.
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MALANDAIN BALLET BIARRITZ
Director / Choreographer Thierry Malandain
22 Dancers
© Olivier Houeix
Created in 1998, the Centre Chorégraphique National Malandain Ballet Biarritz
quickly became one of the most important companies on the French choreographic
landscape. The company is composed by 22 permanent dancers – experienced in
the technique of classical dance – and performs each year between 80 and 100
representations in France, Europe and worldwide.
Having created over 75 choreographies, Thierry Malandain has developed a
consistent repertoire. His very personal vision of dance is deeply linked to the
aesthetic trend of Ballet. Priority is given to the moving body, its strength, virtuosity,
humanity and sensuality. With his creations, Thierry Malandain has invented his own
language, striving for a harmony between modern and classical, contemporary and
historical.
Thierry Malandain received the “Grand prix de la critique” in 2012 for his piece Une
Dernière Chanson. In 2014, he also received the “Best Choreographer Award” for
Cinderella by the Malakhov oundation at the Taglioni European Ballet Awards in Berlin.
“One of Thierry Malandain’s virtue is honesty. It perspires in his work where
everything indicates a search for accuracy and eloquence, in order to avoid
the banality and arduousness, as much as possible, of a narrative ballet.”
Raphaël de Gubernatis, Le nouvelobs
“The choreographer, however neoclassical, is mostly a modern romantic
and his fast, nervous, violent ballet, reflects great musical and scenic
intelligence.”
Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde
Season Highlights
In December 2015, Malandain
Ballet Biarritz will pre-view his new
ballet Beauty and the Beast at
the Opéra Royal du Château de
Versailles.
Then, it will be presented during
two prestigious events which also
coproduce the piece: Donostia /
San Sebastián European Capital
of Culture in February 2016, and
the 17 th Biennale de la Danse de
Lyon in September 2016 for the
opening where it will be premiered.
More information
www.malandainballet.com
SeptembeR 2015
11: Biarritz (FR) – Estro
OctobeR 2015
07: Biarritz (FR) – Estro / Boléro
08, 09: Angoulême (FR) – Cinderella
13: Bangkok (TH) – Cinderella
24, 27, 30: Bilbao (ES) – Ballet de la Reine
November 2015
05: Périgueux (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
08: Soustons (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
December 2015
05, 08: Biarritz (FR) – Beauty and the Beast
(preview)
11-13: Versailles (FR) – Beauty and the Beast
(preview)
15: Saint-Louis (FR) – Cinderella
17: Voiron (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
22, 23: Namur (BE) – Cinderella
27, 28: Biarritz (FR) – Cinderella
January 2016
09: Châteauroux (FR) – Cinderella
12: Leverkusen (DE) – Romeo and Juliet
16, 17: Limoges (FR) – Cinderella (with
orchestra)
20: Rüsselsheim (DE) – Nocturnes / Estro
/ Bolero
22: Bonn (DE) – Beauty and the Beast
23: Remscheid (DE) – Beauty and the Beast
26: Saint-Etienne (FR) – Cinderella
28: Bilbao (ES) – Beauty and the Beast
February 2016
01: Pampelune (ES) – Beauty and the Beast
03, 04: San Sebastian (ES) – Beauty and the
Beast
11-14: Madrid (ES) – Beauty and the Beast
19: San Cugat (ES) – Cinderella
20: Terrassa (ES) – Cinderella
24: Monthey (CH) – Nocturnes / Estro
26, 27: Fribourg (CH) – Beauty and the Beast
March 2016
01: Morges (CH) – Nocturnes / Estro
05: Fontenay-le-Comte (FR) – Cinderella
07: Beauvais (FR) – Cinderella
09: Sucy-en-Brie (FR) – Mort du cygne /
Nocturnes / Estro
11: Plaisir (FR) – Cinderella
12: Le Vesinet (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
13: Montrouge (FR) – Cinderella
15: Rungis (FR) – Nocturnes / Mort du Cygne
/ Une dernière chanson
17: Courbevoie (FR) – Nocturnes /Estro
18: Garges-lès-Gonesses (FR) – Cinderella
20: Meaux (FR) – Cinderella
22: Dinan (FR) – Silhouette / Nocturnes /
Une dernière chanson
24: Arcachon (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
25: Le Bouscat (FR) – Nocturnes / Une
dernière chanson
April 2016
16, 17: Ravena (IT) – Cinderella
19: Saint Petersbourg (RU) – Beauty and the Beast
22: Chartres (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
May 2016
10: Draguignan (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
12, 13: Sète (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro
18: Fulda (DE) – Une dernière chanson /
Estro / Boléro
19: Viersen (DE) – Une dernière chanson /
Estro / Boléro
21: Esch-sur-Alzette (LU) – Nocturnes /
Estro
June 2016
03, 04: Hong Kong (CN) – Cinderella
22: Kuopio (FI) – Cinderella
ON TOUR
SEASON 2015 / 2016
Beauty and The Beast
Choreography Thierry Malandain
Creation in September 2016 – Duration 70 mn
Beauty and the Beast, a fairytale with innumerable symbolic resources, is Thierry
Malandain’s latest choreographic challenge. Without reflecting on all the interpretations
of the tale, the choreographer sees here an initiation story aimed at resolving the duality
of the being: Belle embodies the soul of the human being while the Beast represents
its vital force and instincts. Furthermore, Jean Cocteau through his cinematographic
work, also sees in the dual nature of the Beast the representation of the artist’s inner
demons. Thierry Malandain wants to express in the ballet this notion of “wounded artist”.
However, the ballet, choreographed to Piotr Ilitch Tchaikovsky symphonic scores in
which the master of harmony “pours his soul like a lyric poet” is loosely based on the
concept of “metatheatre”.
VIDEO
CINDERELLA
Music Sergueï Prokofiev
“I choreographed Cinderella to ‘escape from the dark realities’, as would say Massenet,
to escape from bleeding humanity, ignorance and human stupidity, to transcend the
ordinary in a nutshell. This ballet was created on a shoestring, that is to say without
change of scene, without pretence, without turning simple things into complicated
ones, but with a real pleasure, derived from humanity, the magic of the tale and
the magnificence of the music, and also from the laughter of burlesque scenes
counterbalancing dreamlike or unhappy episodes. In short, we did our best to clear
up the clouds and ‘give birth to a dancing star’.”
Thierry Malandain
Music Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin explored the depth of his
melancholic nature to express the languor of love
in his Nocturnes. The dominant feeling shrouded
by a dark veil, the taste for the morbid, the dark
gothic romanticism fostered by Chopin conducted Thierry
Malandain to a comparison with the Danse macabre.
Beyond the idea of associating two things as disparate
as dancing and dying, the Danse macabre symbolised
the passing of time and showed that Death unites people
of all ranks. Nocturnes describes itself as a fresco, as a
dream crushed under the weight of endless melancholy.
© Photos Olivier Houeix
Estro
Music Antonio Vivaldi
VIDEO
Nocturnes
VIDEO
“Thierry Malandain has designed for Cinderella an extremely fluid choreography. It is delicate, sometimes
gossamery, often creative, always spiritual and served by remarkable dancers and a perfect casting…
This work is lively, creative, sometimes inventive.”
Raphaël de Gubernatis, Le Nouvelobs
Amidst a backdrop of music by Vivaldi, L’Estro
armonico Op.3, Thierry Malandain has
choreographed this ballet around the desire
to uplift and to reach new heights. He refers to
the words of André Lendger: “it’s easier today to climb
a summit of some 8,000 metres than to rise several
centimetres within oneself”. The fluency of the gestures
of the dancers makes Estro a short and dynamic
performance, with a geometric beauty.
“With almost nothing at all – two benches and paint pots
recycled into magical lanterns – Malandain lays out the decor
for a dramatic and joyous celebration.”
Isabelle Calabre, Ballroomrevue
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KIDD PIVOT
Director / Choreographer Crystal Pite
6 performers
Born in Vancouver, Crystal Pite joined William Forsythe’s Frankfurt Ballett
as a dancer in 1996. Soon thereafter, international companies ordered
compositions from her: the Nederlands Dans Theater 1 (where she is
still resident choreographer), the Frankfurt Ballet, the Cullberg Ballet, Les
Ballets Jazz de Montréal, Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, British Columbia
Ballet, Alberta Ballet and the National Ballet of Canada... She also worked for
several independent artists such as Louise Lecavalier. In 2012, she created
a choreography for a staging by Robert Lepage.
As an emerging choreographer, Crystal Pite quickly took centre stage,
attracting the attention of the international dance world, a first step towards
becoming a leading choreographer. In 2002, she founded Kidd Pivot in
Vancouver. From 2010 to June 2012, Kidd Pivot was hosted as a resident
company at the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm of Frankfurt, one of the most
highly noted contemporary stages in Germany. Crystal Pite currently drafted
her compositions from there, sharing her time between Frankfurt and
Vancouver, in addition to having many touring periods. Crystal has composed
seven pieces for Kidd Pivot.
After having received awards for her choreographies in 2004, 2005, 2006
and 2009, Crystal was nominated as one of the 10 most dynamic and
talented artists in Canada in 2011. She also received the Jacob’s Pillow
Dance Award in 2011. Crystal Pite was also Associate Artist at Sadler's
Wells, since 2013.
“I find an amusing parallel between what
we don’t know of the universe and what
we ignore of the mind. To me, creation
means experiencing unexplored territory,
but it also means trying to feel out
my own mind... Something unknown,
unsettling and strangely attractive drives
me to compose.”
Crystal Pite
More information
www.kiddpivot.org
“Pite's work integrates original music, text, rich visual design, and a keen
sense of wit and invention. Her distinct style fuses classical elements
with the complexity and freedom of structured improvisation and a strong
theatrical sensibility. Pite connects to her subject through her fascination
and expertise with the dancing body, and with 'her uncanny ability to take
abstract intellectual ideas and give them vivid physical form'.”
The Georgia Straight
“Her style is influenced by her time with William Forsythe, but her
choreographies have their own language: mercurial and full of power and
humor.”
Journal Frankfurt
FEBRUArY 2016
12, 13: Ottawa (CA) – Betroffenheit
18-21: Toronto (CA) – Betroffenheit
26, 27: Vancouver (CA) – Betroffenheit
08, 09: Scottsdale (US) – Betroffenheit
15, 16: Chicago (US) – Betroffenheit
21, 22: Dallas (US) – Betroffenheit
MarCH 2016
04, 05: Santa-Barbara (US) – Betroffenheit
11, 12: Victoria (CA) – Betroffenheit
18, 19: Seattel (US) – Betroffenheit
31: Portland (US) – Betroffenheit
May 2016
06, 07: Brighton (UK) – Betroffenheit
14, 15: Heilbronn (GE) – Betroffenheit
19-21: Vienna (AT) – Betroffenheit
26, 27: Amsterdam (NL) – Betroffenheit
31: London (UK) – Betroffenheit
April 2016
01, 02: Portland (US) – Betroffenheit
June 2016
01: London (UK) – Betroffenheit
ON TOUR
SEASON 2015 / 2016
Betroffenheit
Writting Jonathon Young
Choreography and direction Crystal Pite
Composition and Sound Design Owen Belton, Alessandro
Juliani and Meg Roe
Set Design Jay Gower Taylor
Costume Design Nancy Bryant
Lighting Design Tom Visser
Rehearsal Direction Eric Beauchesne
Additional Choreography Bryan Arias and Cindy Salgado
(salsa), David Raymond (tap)
A state of shock and bewilderment encompasses you in the wake of a disaster. It is a timeless, liminal space
where you return again and again even as you struggle to gain and maintain distance, and where you keep
responding to the disaster long after it has subsided. Here, a crisis-management team is keeping your
emergency situation alive and present, a trusted voice is urging you to come to terms with the past, and a
steady supply of “The Show” is available for all the distraction, escape and pleasure you crave. In one sense
you’re the survivor and this is your refuge. In another, you’re the disaster waiting to happen. This new creation
by two of Canada’s most celebrated companies is an innovative, boundary-stretching hybrid of theatre and
dance.
“The choreography and performances…were enthralling, I was so engrossed I nearly forgot to breathe…an
evening of dance/theatre that’s as thrilling as it is affecting.”
Mooney on Theatre
"Jonathon Young is radiant. This guy always looks like he's lit from within. It's no exaggeration to say that
Young moves with the grace and precision of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton."
Georgia Straight
© Photos Michael Slobodian
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YACOBSON BALLET
Saint Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theater
Artistic Director Andrian Fadeev
70 dancers
Yacobson Ballet was created in 1969 by Leonid Yacobson, at that time a Ballet
master and a famous choreographer. It was the first Russian independent
company - not related to an Opera – and it quickly created sensation within the
Russian ballet landscape and soon received the nickname “Miniature Company”
referring to the short length of the pieces created by its founder. During 7 years
as director, Leonid Yacobson worked for the development of dance in Russia
and has collaborated with renowned dancers such as Natalia Makarova, Alla
Osipenko, Maya Plisetskaya, Mikhail Baryshnikov, among others.
After Leonid Yacobson’s death in 1976, his closest collaborator took the direction
of the company and opened the repertoire to Russian and foreign choreographers,
developing a repertoire of creations based on the founding technique of ballet.
The company began to export its excellent reputation outside of Russia.
Since 2011, the Yacobson Ballet has been directed by Andrian Fadeev, exprincipal dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet. With all the strength of his convicion,
Andrian wants to bring the company – composed by 70 dancers and soloists
with astonishing technique and strong personalities – to an international level.
He rejuvenates ballet from the classical repertoire. Following the tradition, he
commissions and updates new stage productions and costume designs. Cutting
the lengthy parts in order to keep the essential, he gives spirit and rhythm to
those historical pieces and modernizes them. A beautiful way to rediscover the
ballet repertoire, performed elegantly and with brio by excellent dancers.
“Andrian Fadeev, Director of the Yacobson Ballet gives to this traditonnal
masterpiece, which went through the centuries, a fresh impulse to the essential.
All enhanced by the technique of the dancers, especially in their work with pointeshoes. The soloists, breathtaking, are worn by the perfection of this ballet. [...] A
great show and dancers are sublimated by luminous costumes. What a dazzling
performance !”
Cerise Rochet, La Tribune - Le Progrès
Company french tour calendar
NovembeR 2015
17: Montauban (FR) – Giselle
19: Mont-de-Marsan (FR) – Giselle
21, 22: Tarbes (FR) – Giselle
24: Mérignac (FR) – Sylphides / Rehearsal / Paquita
27, 28: Compiègne (FR) – Giselle (with orchestra)
December 2015
01, 02: Valenciennes (FR) – Giselle
04: Le Havre (FR) –Chopiniana / Rehearsal / Paquita
January 2016
20: Monthey (CH) – Giselle
23-31: Lyon (FR) (Maison de la Danse) – Giselle
February 2016
03: Neuilly-sur-Seine (FR) – Chopiniana / Rehearsal / Paquita
© Yacobson Balletn
YacobsonBallet
St. Petersburg State Academic Ballet Theatre
Season Highlights
During the summer, the Yacobson
Ballet
presented
a
renewed
production of Swan Lake, with original
choreography by Marius Petipa and
Lev Ivanov, picturesque sets and
exquisite costumes specially designed
by Vyacheslav Okunev.
In spring 2016, the Yacobson ballet
will restage Sleeping Beauty, the new
sets and costumes will balance with
the traditional choreography.
More information
www.yacobsonballet.ru
ON TOUR
SEASON 2015 / 2016
© Yacobson Ballet
© Yacobson Ballet
Giselle
Choreography Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Libretto by Vladimir Begichev and Vasily Geltser
Set and costume design Vyacheslav Okunev
Duration 190 mn
Choreography Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot
and Marius Petipa
Music Adolphe Adam
Libretto by Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, Theophile Gautier
Set and costume design Vyacheslav Okunev
Duration 100 mn
Swan Lake is one of the most enchanting, impeccable,
and renowned creations in the world. Its music
choreography has been universally seen as a worldclass ballet masterpiece. It's one of the greatest
achievements of Russian national culture. This piece
was part of the company's repertoire for many years
in a renewed rendition of the original choreography
by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov. Now it profits of new
sets by the distinguished and talented Vyacheslav
Okunev, winner of the Golden Mask and Golden Soffit
Theatre Awards. The ballet is shining in a completely
new light, offering a fresh perspective to the audience.
© Yacobson Ballet
VIDEO
Swan Lake
Giselle by the Yacobson Ballet is grounded in tradition
and keeps all the dramatic intensity, the emotions and
the romantic style present in the original piece. Created
in 1841, Giselle represents, according to Serge Lifar:
“The apotheosis of romantic ballet”. The libretto by
Theophile Gautier applies to perfection the combination
of the romantic principles: pastoral in a realistic and
prosaic universe, which in the 1st act ends in a tragedy
and the 2nd act takes place in the drama of a fantastical
world and an imaginary metamorphosis. The libretto
opposes, first in a social contrast, the spontaneous
farmer girl to the haughty Duchess, then, in a moral
and metaphysical antithesis, the avenging Myrtha to the
redemptive Giselle; we also find in this ballet the ultimate
romantic theme of insanity, which by nature is opposed
to classical ballets, and finally the theme of love beyond
death. The difference of keys in the music underlines the
dramatic side of the narration. Giselle is considered as
the most accomplished romantic ballet being composed
of all the elements of a perfect romantic ballet.
“During the whole ballet of Giselle the soloists must continuously
change the way they dance, passing from madness to despair,
from frivolous amour-propre to the understanding that life is
meaningless without love. The Yacobson Ballet successfully
achieves this. It perfectly combines the artistry with technique,
reflecting the fabulous variations of the first act changed by
the profound lyricism of the ‘white act’, inimitably performed
by the soloist and corps de ballet. ”
Federica Pezzoli, Radiocitta Ferrara
Others pieces on tour
Nutcraker – Choreography Vasily Vainonen, music Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovsky
Paquita – Choreography Marius Petipa, music Ludwig Minkus
Chopiniana – Choreography Michel Fokine, music Frédérique Chopin
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ANDO DANSE COMPAGNIE
Choreographer Davy Brun
Up to 8 dancers
Dancer and choreographer, Davy Brun began his training at the National
Conservatory of Lyon, continuing at the Paris Opera Dance School. His
eleven years at Lyon Opera Ballet and then at Ballet du Grand Théâtre
de Genève provided him with the opportunity to work with many leading
contemporary choreographers such as Mats Ek, Trisha Brown, Nacho
Duato, Jirí Kylián, William Forsythe, Gilles Jobin, Maguy Marin, Mathilde
Monnier, to name but a few.
His training as a classical dancer combined with exploration of many
different body movements roused in him a strong desire to live out his own
experiences through his choreographies. “What do I do with all of this?
What have I retained from classical dance, ‘non-danse’, contemporary
dance? An aesthetic, a movement, a thought.” His choreographic work
leans towards a thoughtful dance, one that is written, conveying emotion.
Davy Brun is not part of the post new dance or ‘non-danse’ generation.
His return to movement is expressed through the construction of his
work, “the body’s memory means that my dance can be created with
improvisation”. He is supported by high technique and strong personality
dancers.
“To go beyond the formula of the international language that was
created in the ‘post-classica’ era and that is often repeated in the
creations of choreographers of the Kylián-Ek-Forsythe legacy is not
easy; nor is it easy to avoid repeating everything that is well-known and
established. But Brun seems to have embarked on a promising path,
re-affirming that he still believes in the possibility of creating works of
‘dancing-dance’.”
Elisa Guzzo Vaccarino, Ballet 2000
“A choreographer who is going to make his mark...”
David S.Tran , Le Progrès
October 2015
03, 04: Locarno (CH) (Ghisla Art Collection) – La Renaissance (solo)
22: Paris (FR) (Espace 111) – La Renaissance (solo)
DEcembER 2015
03-05: Saint-Étienne (FR) – Akiko l’amoureuse
April 2016
05: Décines (FR) – Akiko l’amoureuse
27: Saint-Raphaël (FR) – Akiko l’amoureuse
MAy 2016
13, 14: Andrézieux-Bouthéon (FR) – Akiko l’amoureuse
17, 18: Landivisiau (FR) – Akiko l’amoureuse
20: Collinée (FR) – Akiko l’amoureuse
© David Steinboim
Season Highlights
From January until December 2016,
Davy Brun will get a residency at the
Fort du Bruissin, Contemporary Art
Center in Francheville. This will be
an opportunity for the choreographer
to imagine a range of actions for an
audience of dance lovers. It will also
give him the opportunity to work his
new creation, Don Cervantes . A five
dancers piece inspired by an episode
of the life of Miguel Cervantes before
he began the writing of Don Quichotte .
The costumes will be the work of
Hubert Barrère, creator, corsetmaker and artistic director of Maison
Lesage.
More information
www.davybrun.fr
SEASON 2015 / 2016
Conception and choreography Davy Brun
in collaboration with Antoine Guilloppé
Musical creation Julien Tarride
This project is the meeting point between two authors who wished
to collaborate. On the basis of the album which is much loved
by youngsters and families and which is on the shelves in many
schools, Akiko l’amoureuse. The first idea was to offer children
a performance with a strong aesthetic value. A piece where the
story and emotion are conveyed through body language and
visual performance. This program is for children between 5 and
12 years old, but can of course be enjoyed with the whole family.
“Undertaking a show inspired by an illustrative story book is the fantasy
of every author. I am delighted that Davy opted for this story, which is in
a book form, will come to life and move. The link between these two art
forms does exist, and this is where we met.”
Antoine Guilloppé
“Discovery of Antoine Guilloppé's work immediately led me to plan a
performance for youngsters. This desire has been bubbling inside of
me for a long time. Antoine's work, focussing on light and shadow, even
getting rid of text and allowing illustration to act as a narrative inspired
me, and particularly the character of Akiko.”
Davy Brun
© Photos Michel Cavalca
The firebird
Choreography Davy Brun
Music Igor Stravinsky
© Olivier Houeix VIDEO
PIECE for Young Audience
Akiko L’amoureuse
VIDEO
ON TOUR
“It all starts with the desire to tell a story, a facet that has, up until now, been
excluded from my choreographic approach. My choice of The Firebird was
inspired by a story read to me as a child, one of those stories that is told at
bedtime, but that stays with you all night.
Through this piece, I question the traditional perception and structure of a
‘ballet’, giving it a contemporary slant. I drew on a ballet inspired by a Russian
fairytale, The Firebird and the Gray Wolf, collected by Alexandre Afanasyev,
with the primary aim of drawing it out from Russian folklore.
In my interpretation, the bird becomes an actor. Its presence symbolizing
freedom, it leads an amassed, subjugated population towards the light,
helping it to topple the statue of the oppressor. I created a piece that pays
tribute to tolerance, denouncing obscurantism, allowing each individual
citizen to come into their own. A timeless, topical theme.”
Davy Brun
Le Trait d’Union
+33 5 45 94 75 95
www.ltddanse.com

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