Scottish Ballet presents Dance Odysseys
The Rite of Spring Photo Kim Kenney
Pierrot lunaire Photo Zoë Dominic
édouard Lock: World Premiere (2013) Performed by Scottish Ballet Scottish Ballet presents a World Premiere from La La La Human Steps Founder, Artistic Director and Choreographer Édouard Lock. Lock is renowned for his extreme, incandescent style of dance and his precise technique. His boldly challenging style has always attracted international attention. His creations are an arresting fusion of speed, complex combinations of gestures and footwork, and bodies propelled through the air at astonishing angles. Past collaborations include projects with David Bowie, Frank Zappa and Bette Midler, and he has created work for the Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montréal, the Dutch National Ballet and Paris Opéra Ballet.
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The Rite of Spring (2011) Performed by Scottish Ballet Choreography Christopher Hampson Music Igor Stravinsky Intense and visceral, Christopher Hampson’s vision of The Rite of Spring, created originally for Atlanta Ballet, is presented 100 years after the original production revolutionised the world of dance and music. Set to Stravinsky’s exhilaratingly influential score, Hampson uses three dancers – two men and a woman – to reinvent the now infamous story of remorseless human sacrifice with brutal physicality and primal energy in this challenging work that examines themes of violence, obedience and domination. Sunday 18 August 8.00pm
Friday 16 August 8.00pm Main Theatre Tickets £18 £15 £12 £10
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Pierrot Lunaire (1962) Performed by Scottish Ballet Choreography Glen Tetley Music Arnold Schoenberg This seminal work from American dancer and choreographer Glen Tetley was also the starting point of his now iconic choreographic style – combining modern dance with the elongated line and aerial bravura of ballet. It is a style he perfected through his professional career performing leading roles in the Martha Graham Dance Company as well as with American Ballet Theatre.
Im (Goldenen) Schnitt I (reconstruction 1996) Performed by Gelabert Azzopardi Companyia de Dansa Choreography Gerhard Bohner Sculptor Vera Röhm Music Johann Sebastian Bach Moving through constellations of wood and Plexiglas pillars, reacting in sculptor Vera Röhm’s space Cesc Gelabert recreates Gerhard Bohner’s original concept highlighting elements of dance, visual arts and music while allowing them to remain autonomous.
Inspired by the three principal characters from the commedia dell’arte, it is a poetic, humorous and dramatic interpretation of composer Arnold Schoenberg’s revolutionary work of the same name.
Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, interpreted by Keith Jarrett, provides the music for this reconstruction of Bohner’s solo Im (Goldenen) Schnitt I, to which Gelabert brings his inimitable style and individuality as a dancer.
Saturday 17 August 8.00pm
Monday 19 August 8.00pm
Main Theatre Tickets £18 £15 £12 £10
Main Theatre Tickets £18 £15 £12 £10
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