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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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