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Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
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November 23, 1999 sees the first performance for an adult audience in the new Royal Opera House. The newly trained ushers are tested during a gala of ballet performed for the construction workers who have worked in the buildng for the past two and half years.
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English
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Experience Alexander Ekman´s exceptional ballet, A Midsummer Night´s Dream, created for the Royal Swedish Ballet with a score by award-winning Mikael Karlsson. This contemporary ballet explores the energy and the mysteries of the summer solstice night in the Scandinavian tradition. The program also features experimental pop singer Anna von Hausswolff, acclaimed percussionist Niklas Brommare, and the classical string quartet Dahlkvistkvartetten.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Tamara Rojo, world-famous ballerina and artistic director of English National Ballet, takes us backstage as she prepares for one of classical ballet's biggest challenges—the dual lead in Swan Lake. It is the ultimate role for any dancer, requiring her to play the completely contrasting characters—Odette the White Swan and Odile the Black Swan.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Founded in 1959, Cuba‘s leading contemporary dance company has had a profound influence on Cuban dance and dancers. Over the past 53 years Danza Contemporánea de Cuba has evolved into an exotic hybrid of contemporary, classical, and Caribbean styles. They move with an old-fashioned juiciness, reminiscent of the Martha Graham Company, but without being old-fashioned. Expect an exciting modern dance performance to the beats of the future from choreographer...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
First performed at the Kirov Theater in 1930, The Golden Age has as its central theme the battle and triumph of the proletariat over the decadent bourgeoisie. Surprisingly, the score by Dmitri Shostakovich raised political controversies, and the ballet vanished from theaters until 1982, when Grigorovich restaged it with a love story as its central focus. To celebrate Grigorovich's 90th birthday, the Bolshoi has revived this ballet with leading artists...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Stravinsky. This exciting program presents two of his seminal works to scores commissioned by Serge Diaghilev for his Ballets Russes: The Firebird and Les Noces. Michael Berkeley and Deborah Bull discover more about the ballets and the people who created them. Deborah Bull also dances Nijinsky's version of The Rite of Spring with choreography recreated by Millicent Hodson.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Swan Lake remains the quintessential ballet. Featuring the unforgettable corps dancers moving in magical unison as the majestic, glimmering swans, this ballet has left audiences breathless for generations. This romantic fable of ill-fated passion, dreamlike transformation, and ultimate forgiveness set to Tchaikovsky’s glorious score was fashioned from both Russian and German folk tales.
10) Ghost Light
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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A Ghost Light – a single lamp that illuminates the stage when rehearsals or performances are finished – is part of a long theatrical tradition. Legend says that originally, the night light was for the ghosts of former artists so that they may cavort throughout the night and not disturb or disrupt current performances! At this very moment, because of the pandemic, countless stages, particularly in America, are illuminated by ghost lights.The Hamburg...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The wicked fairy Carabosse is furious she wasn’t invited to Princess Aurora’s christening. She gives the baby a spindle, saying that one day the Princess will prick her finger on it and die. The Lilac Fairy makes her own christening gift a softening of Carabosse’s curse: Aurora will not die, but will fall into a deep sleep, which only a prince’s kiss will break. On her 16th birthday, Aurora discovers the spindle and pricks her finger. She...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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British choroeographer Matthew Bourne has won numerous awards for his dance productions and choreography, including the Laurence Olivier Award, Tony Awards, and Drama Desk Awards. This is Bourne's new production of The Nutracker, which follows Clara’s bittersweet journey from Christmas Eve at Dr. Dross’s Orphanage, through a shimmering winter wonderland, to the scrumptious candy kingdom of Sweetieland. Influenced by the lavish Hollywood musicals...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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The double Olivier Award-winning show is Hans Christian Andersen’s tale of obsession, possession, and one girl’s dream to be the greatest dancer in the world. Victoria Page, played by Ashley Shaw who won a National Dance Award for her performance, lives to dance, but her ambitions become a battleground between the two men who inspire her passion: the composer Julian Craster played by original cast member Dominic North, and legendary impresario...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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After causing an immediate sensation when it premiered at Sadler’s Wells in 1995, Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake returns with a fresh look for the 21st century. Still retaining the iconic elements of the original production loved by millions around the world, award-winning designers, Lez Brotherston and Paule Constable, alongside Bourne, have created an exciting re-imagining of the classic production. Thrilling, audacious, witty and emotive, this...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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London-based Israeli dancer, choreographer, and composer Hofesh Shechter has been named as one of The Stage's 100 most influential people in theater since 2016, has been nominated for a Tony Award for Best Choreography, and received the OBE for his contributions to the arts. Clowns is a dance film that is a macabre comedy of murder and desire, asking how far will we go in the name of entertainment.Directed, choreographed, and composed by Hofesh Shechter,...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Cold Nights Hot Salsa takes you inside the international dance world of Victor and Katia, aspiring young salsa dancers from Montreal, who seek to win a World Salsa Championship. During their three-year quest Victor and Katia draw upon the talents of Eddie Torres, Tito & Tamara, Billy Fajardo, and Katie Marlow. Victor and Katia’s story is a love story. It’s not only a story of their love of dance but how being a couple enhances and sometimes complicates...
17) Swan Lake (2002)
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Peter Wright and Galina Samsova's production of Tchaikovsky's universally popular ballet, performed by The Royal Swedish Opera Ballet Company. First staged in 1877, Swan Lake continues to be the most universally popular of the classical ballets, both for its music and its story. Wright and Samsova originally created the version performed here for Sadler's Wells Royal Ballet in 1981. This version is renowned for its beauty and clear narration, with...
18) The Dancer
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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The Dancer follows the young and gifted Katja Björner through years of intensive training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School as she develops into an international ballet star. Filmed with an eye toward conveying the physical aspects of dancing — the pain, sweat, and tears, as well as the exquisite beauty — The Dancer captures the fierce determination and struggle that goes into the desire to dance at the highest level.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Irish dance has captured the hearts, minds and "soles" of countless men, women and children. In Irish Dance; See It! Feel It! Love It! you will marvel at the intricate dance steps and watch as future dance stars practice for competitions. You'll also learn the rich history that has propelled Irish dance into the international spotlight.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
How did twenty retired men and women from Marseille find themselves in Paris' most prestigious contemporary dance theater? Nurses, housewives, teachers and doctors—aged between 60 and 87 years old and without any dance experience—perform Stravinsky's masterpiece, The Rite of Spring. The fruit of a collaboration over seven years with the ground-breaking choreographer, Thierry Thieû Niang, the show has been acclaimed throughout France.
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