Avant-Garde: Cutting Edge | Ballet Evening

Avant-Garde: Cutting Edge

The production is made up of three works by contemporary creators, two of which will receive their world premieres.

1/ Choreography by Robert Bondara  – world premiere
Music: Max RICHTER: The New Four Season (Vivaldi Recomposed)
Sets: Diana Marszałek
Costume design: Martyna Kander
Light design: Daniel Tesař

2/ Jiří Kylián: 27’52”
Music: Dirk HAUBRICH (new composition based upon 2 themes by Gustav Mahler)
Sets: Jiří Kylián
Costume design: Joke Visser
Light design: Kees Tjebbes

3/ Choreography by Marco Goecke – world premiere
Muisc: Bohuslav MARTINŮ: Double Concerto for two string orchestras, piano and timpani, H 271
James BROWN: This Is A Men's World, Try Me, Sex Machine
Sets and costumes: Michaela Springer
Light design: Udo Haberland
Music preparation, conductor: Jaroslav Kyzlink

National Theatre Ballet Prague

The production is made up of three works by contemporary creators, two of which will receive their world premieres.  

Jiří Kylián, Marco Goecke and Robert Bondara are among the crème de la crème of modern art, with their creations being extremely challenging in terms of technique and theatre alike.  

The first has been conceived by Robert Bondara, a Polish choreographer, stage director and teacher, formerly a dancer with the Polish National Ballet and since 2018 director of the Poznan Grand Theatre Ballet.

The second is a work by the celebrated choreographer Jiří Kylián, whose ballets have been staged by all prestigious companies worldwide. Dating from 2002, 27’52” is dedicated to Gerald Tibbs, a former renowned Nederlands Dans Theater dancer, to whose date of birth (20 July 1952) the piece’s title and duration refer.

The third work on the triple bill is by Marco Goecke, considered the most significant contemporary German dance creator. He has worked with a number of renowned companies, including as choreographer-in-residence at the Stuttgarter Ballett (2005/06 season) and the Scapino Ballet in Rotterdam (2006-2012), and as director of the Staatsballett Hannover (2019-2023). Since 2013, he has closely collaborated with the Nederlands Dans Theater in The Hague. In the 2023/24 season, the Czech National Ballet presented Goecke’s Fly Paper Bird within the triple bill Beyond Vibrations. 

More information: https://www.narodni-divadlo.cz/en/show/avant-garde-cutting-edge-Pe1Uz0e2TUCoyvNdfNIa9g