Ballet: Encounters - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballet: Encounters
Ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, Andrey Kaydanovskiy, Martin Schläpfer
Alexei Ratmansky is a world star of contemporary ballet. His path led him from his hometown of St. Petersburg via the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet, of which he became director in 2004, to New York, where he has shaped the American Ballet Theater as Artist in Residence since 2009. His »24 Préludes« – choreographed for the Royal Ballet London in 2013 – are a ›Ballet of mood‹ in which eight dancers unfold the entire emotional palette of different relationships in an enchanting way. But they are also a homage to 20th-century British dance: to the expressiveness of Antony Tudor and the elegant lyricism of Frederik Ashton.
Andrey Kaydanovskiy is a dancer with the Vienna State Ballet and has long been a sought-after choreographer. After his first works in Vienna, he created his own pieces for the Bolshoi Ballet and Stanislavsky-Nemirovich Danchenko Music Theater in Moscow, the Czech National Ballet and the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. Now he is looking to meet the composer Christof Dienz. The versatile musician - among other things the founder of the Tyrolean neo-folk music jazz octet Knoedel - balances in his work in a fascinating way between the styles for a music that is "intuitive and physical". In his choreography, Kaydanovskiy allows two principles to collide: reality and fantasy, concrete and abstract, embodied by an artist and his muse – an encounter that points to the open.
Martin Schläpfer calls his world premiere of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 »Transformed into sun« – music in which the director and chief choreographer of the Vienna State Ballet sees images full of warmth and softness: »Harmonious but not peaceful, knowing but not dominating, come to rest , but not still, flowing, but not urgent: like a wide stream just before it flows into the lake, like the evening sun that turns a clearing into gold and takes away the narrowness and darkness from the forest, although its trunks stand close together. Centimeters become meters, danger becomes an opportunity« – says Martin Schläpfer.
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Alexei Ratmansky is a world star of contemporary ballet. His path led him from his hometown of St. Petersburg via the Moscow Bolshoi Ballet, of which he became director in 2004, to New York, where he has shaped the American Ballet Theater as Artist in Residence since 2009. His »24 Préludes« – choreographed for the Royal Ballet London in 2013 – are a ›Ballet of mood‹ in which eight dancers unfold the entire emotional palette of different relationships in an enchanting way. But they are also a homage to 20th-century British dance: to the expressiveness of Antony Tudor and the elegant lyricism of Frederik Ashton.
Andrey Kaydanovskiy is a dancer with the Vienna State Ballet and has long been a sought-after choreographer. After his first works in Vienna, he created his own pieces for the Bolshoi Ballet and Stanislavsky-Nemirovich Danchenko Music Theater in Moscow, the Czech National Ballet and the Bavarian State Ballet in Munich. Now he is looking to meet the composer Christof Dienz. The versatile musician - among other things the founder of the Tyrolean neo-folk music jazz octet Knoedel - balances in his work in a fascinating way between the styles for a music that is "intuitive and physical". In his choreography, Kaydanovskiy allows two principles to collide: reality and fantasy, concrete and abstract, embodied by an artist and his muse – an encounter that points to the open.
Martin Schläpfer calls his world premiere of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 »Transformed into sun« – music in which the director and chief choreographer of the Vienna State Ballet sees images full of warmth and softness: »Harmonious but not peaceful, knowing but not dominating, come to rest , but not still, flowing, but not urgent: like a wide stream just before it flows into the lake, like the evening sun that turns a clearing into gold and takes away the narrowness and darkness from the forest, although its trunks stand close together. Centimeters become meters, danger becomes an opportunity« – says Martin Schläpfer.
Subject to change.
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