Dance Ballet Festival Terpsichore Gala VII

Nacionalidad: Cubana
Ocupación: Crítica de ballet.
Nacida en La Habana, en 1964, donde estudió Historia del Arte en la Universidad de La Habana. Crítica de danza, durante diez años trabajó en el Ballet Nacional de Cuba, como escritora de danza.

The Festival week opens on April 12 with the triple bill “Schläpfer, van Manen, Sandroni”.
A second highlight of the Ballet Festival Week: the “Terpsichore Gala VII” dedicated to the memory of John Cranko.
From April 12 to 19, 2008, the Bavarian State Ballet presents its annual Ballet Festival Week at the National Theatre in Munich.
The Festival week opens on April 12 with the triple bill “Schläpfer, van Manen, Sandroni”.
It combines two creations, one by Martin Schläpfer, one by Simone Sandroni, with the first Munich performance of a classic by Hans van Manen: “Adagio Hammerklavier”. Martin Schläpfer, one of the most important contemporary choreographers, will create a ballet to Sofia Gubaidulina’s “Concert for Viola and Orchestra” for the Bavarian State Ballet, thus creating for the first time for a company other than his own. Simone Sandroni, a free-lance upcoming Italian choreographer who has gained international fame with his own group “Déjà Donné”, will create a new ballet to sonatas for violin and cembalo by Johann Sebastian Bach. Visual artist rosalie will be responsible for stage design and costumes for both ballets. She is certainly one of the most eminent stage designers of our time, especially since her designs for the Bayreuth “Ring”.

A second highlight of the Ballet Festival Week: the “Terpsichore Gala VII” dedicated to the memory of John Cranko. Forty years ago he was the ballet director and resident choreographer of the Munich company and to this day, his ballets are the backbone of the repertoire. The gala program will exclusively consist of works by this great choreographer. Leading guest soloists from the American Ballet Theatre, the Birmingham Royal Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada and the Stuttgart Ballet will dance the famous pas de deux from “Romeo and Juliet”, “Onegin”, “The Lady and the Fool” and from Cranko’s unique “Swan Lake”. The leading Munich soloists will dance Cranko ballets that are new to them and that have not been performed at the Munich National theatre for decades: “Katalyse”, “Ebony Concerto”, “Legende”, and “Holberg Pas de Deux”. The gala will take place in the National Theatre on April 16 and 17.
The Ballet Festival Week will be completed by four performances ranging from classicism to neo-classicism and demonstrating the wide scale of the Munich repertoire: “Onegin”, “Le Corsaire”, “The Tempest” and “Swan Lake”.
April 12 (premiere) and April 13: Schläpfer/van Manen/ Sandroni
April 14: Onegin
April 15: Le Corsaire
April 16 and 17: Terpsichore Gala VII
April 18: The Tempest
April 19: Swan Lake

Rehearsal for Violakonzert – II: Martin Schläpfer – photo: Wilfried Hösl
Cast
Julie Kent (American Ballet Theatre), Robert Tewsley, Bridget Breiner, Greta Hodgkinson, Nehemiah Kish, Heather Ogden (National Ballet of Canada), Ambra Vallo, Kit Holder, Christopher Larsen , Tyrone Singleton, Kosuke Yamamoto (Birmingham Royal Ballet), Friedemann Vogel (Stuttgarter Ballett) and all principals of the Bavarian State Ballet
Swan Lake with guest soloists
Svetlana Lunkina and Dmitry Gudanov (Bolschoi-Ballett Moskau)

Schläpfer/Van Manen/Sandroni
All Principals und Soloists of the Bavarian State Ballet
Onegin: Lucia Lacarra, Iyy Amista; Marlon Dino, Alen Bottaini
Le Corsaire: Roberta Fernandes, Ivy Amista; Lukas Slavicky, Tigran Mikayelyan, Cyril Pierre
Der Sturm: Lucia Lacarra, Séverine Ferrolier; Alen Bottaini, Lukas Slavicky, Wlademir Faccioni

Onegin: Lucia Lacarra and Vincent Loermans – Photo: Charles Tandy
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