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Schedule for WWB@LLET.RU 2022
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky Composer: Sergei Prokofiev Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich Composer: Sergei Rachmaninov Music Director: Pavel Sorokin Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon Composer: George Frideric Handel Composer: Maurice Ravel Choreography: Jorma Elo Ballet company: Bolshoi Ballet Ballet company: San Francisco Ballet Ballet company: Monte Carlo Ballet (Les Ballets de Monte Carlo) Choreography: Helgi Tomasson Choreography: David Bintley Choreography: Edward Liang Choreography: Yuri Possokhov
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Symphony Orchestra
Premiere of this production: 29 June 2012, Bolshoi theatre, Moscow, Russia
PART I
SAN FRANCISCO
BALLET
June 29
E. Bosso, A. Vivaldi Pas
de deux from Within the Golden
Hour Choreography by Christopher
Wheeldon
G. F. Handel (Chaconne in G
major) Chaconne for Piano and Two Dancers
Choreography by Helgi
Tomasson
D. Shostakovich (Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto
in C minor) Pas de deux from The Dance
House Choreography by David Bintley
S. Rachmaninov Pas de deux from Symphonic
Dances Choreography by Edward
Liang
P. Tchaikovsky (III and IV movements from Souvenir
de Florence) Excerpt from Trio
Choreography by Helgi Tomasson
June 30
SAN FRANCISCO
BALLET
S. Prokofiev Balcony pas de deux
from Romeo & Juliet Choreography by Helgi
Tomasson
J. S. Bach (Concerto No. 5 BWV 1056
(2nd & 3rd movements) for keyboard; Concerto No. 4 BWV (1st
& 2nd movements) for keyboard; Concerto for Harpsichords in A
minor BMV 1065 (2nd movement), arranged for two harpsichords; and Concerto
No. 1 BWV 1052 (1st & 2nd movements) for
keyboard) 7 for Eight Choreography
by Helgi Tomasson
BOLSHOI BALLET
S. Prokofiev (Symphony No. 1) Classical
Symphony
Choreography: Yuri Possokhov Costumes: Sandra
Woodall Music Direction: Pavel Sorokin Lighting: Elena
Kopunova Assistant Choreographer: Natalia Malandina
PART II
LES BALLETS de MONTE CARLO
M. Ravel Daphnis
et Chloй Choreography: Jean-Christophe Maillot Sets
& drawings: Ernest Pignon-Ernest Costumes: Jerome Kaplan
Lighting: Dominique Drillot
PART III
BOLSHOI BALLET
S. Rachmaninov (Piano Concerto No.2
in C minor) “Dream of Dream” Choreography: Jorma
Elo Sets: Jordan Tuinman Costumes: Holly Hynes Music Direction: Pavel
Sorokin Piano: Pavel Nebolsin Lighting: Jordan Tuinman Assistant
Choreographer: Christophe Dozzi
Artistic
director of the Bolshoi Ballet Company, Sergei Filin,
comments:
The internet is part and parcel of the
present-day spectator’s life. Wwb@llet.ru, the title of our forthcoming Ballet
Festival, was conceived by analogy with the worldwide web, but the word web was
replaced by the word ballet, and thus we got WorldWide Ballet. And by exchanging
com for ru, we are saying that worldwide ballet is shown in Russia. In my view
our Ballet Festival title hits the nail on the head.Our aim was to stress the
fact that the Bolshoi Theatre Ballet is moving with the times — thus the hint at
an internet address. This season, incidentally, with the worldwide live relay of
its productions, our Company has been successfully ‘launched’ on the web.The
essence of the Festival is best reflected in the translation of our altered
version of the abbreviation: worldwide ballet — ballet from different corners of
the world which we gather together on our stage, positioning ourselves as part
of a single whole — the worldwide ballet web, in order to present the most
interesting things created over the past five-ten years by those of the world’s
ballet companies which are looked on as the ‘incubators’ of modern choreography
or companies which have a strongly defined face of their own.
We also
want to show how we, ourselves, are developing and moving ahead, what we
contribute to the world ballet space and how we can cooperate with ballet
companies from other countries, establishing links which lead to co-creations,
mutual work.
Within the Golden Hour. Maria Kochetkova &
Joan Boada. © Erik Tomasson.
Our first Festival (and we, of course, hope
it will become a yearly fixture) presents Ballet San Francisco and Ballet
Monte-Carlo, two companies which arouse enormous interest with the public of
very different countries. Part I of the program will be opened by Ballet San
Francisco which, for over 20 years, has been headed by choreographer Helgi
Tomasson, and where our fellow countryman and former Bolshoi Theatre dancer,
Yuri Possokhov — in my view one of the most interesting of the world’s
choreographers — is Choreographer in Residence.
Ballet San Francisco has
long had the reputation of one of the world’s ‘incubators’ of modern
choreography: each year several original ballets are made there. The Company
collaborates with the biggest names in choreography, but very often it is there
that new talents become famous.
The Ballet San Francisco program includes
fragments from the works of Helgi Tomasson, Christopher Wheeldon, David Bintley,
Edward Liang (premiиre March 2012). And it winds up with Yuri Possokhov’s ballet
to the music of Sergei Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. Possokhov created the
ballet in 2010 as a tribute to his teacher Pyotr Pestov. Now Classical Symphony
is moving from San Francisco to us at the Bolshoi Theatre and it will be danced
by our artists in memory of a great teacher of ballet, whose pupils are
responsible for many bright pages in the story of the Bolshoi Theatre and world
ballet.
Daphnis et Chloe. G. Morlotti, J. Verbruggen,
A. Ballesteros-Cilla, B. Coppieters. Photo Marie-Laure Briane.
Ballets de
Monte-Carlo has its own individual face, created by the choreography of the
Company’s artistic director, Jean-Christophe Maillot. Part II of our program
will consist of the one-act ballet Daphnis et Chloй to music by Ravel in a
production by Jean-Christophe Maillot, a choreographer-philosopher whose dance
lexicon and profound reading of eternal and topical issues are equally
intriguing. We already have experience of collaborating with this Company — last
winter in Monte-Carlo, our dancers took part in a co-presentation of Maillot’s
new ballet Lac, based on motifs of Swan Lake. Initially we wanted to include an
act from this ballet in the Festival program, but we eventually decided that
such a conceptual ballet should be shown in full. Within the framework of the
present Festival we are presenting Ballets de Monte-Carlo itself, while we hope
to show the results of our mutual work in the future.
Part III of the
program will present another new work danced by Bolshoi Theatre artists — the
world premiиre of the ballet Dream of Dream to the music of the 2nd Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto, produced by the remarkable choreographer Jorma Elo. Virtually
all our best dancers will be appearing in this ballet.
Thus wwb@llet.ru
will acquaint our audiences with two foreign ballet companies and will present
the premiиres of two ballets, produced this season at the Bolshoi Theatre.
Schedule for WWB@LLET.RU 2022
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