T0115191643Dutch National Ballet's Junior Company present a journey through dance history from the classics to new works created especially for the Junior Company. The mixed programme includes excerpts from repertory classics, including Napoli Divertissements and Swan Lake. The company also performs Hans van Manen's Visions fugitives and contemporary repertory by Milena Sidorva and Ernst Meisner, the programme's artistic co-ordinator. Completing the programme are two premieres: Robert Binet's Surface and Juanio Arques's Blink. | |
| 5 Jun 15 to 6 Jun 15 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L1977548212 |
T1653783832The new Junior Company of Dutch National Ballet tour their first show, with an engaging programme including works by Hans van Manen, Rudi van Dantzig and Peter Wright, and a UK premiere from British rising star George Williamson. | |
| 28 May 14 to 29 May 14 | Royal Opera House, West End :: V377 listing details L212000467 |
Hans van Manen - Master of Dance - T1690122798Dutch National Ballet returns to London to present three of Hans van Manen’s best-loved pieces. With a body of work that includes more than 120 ballets, created over the course of a career spanning nearly six decades, Hans van Manen is universally recognised as one of the most important choreographers of his generation. All the pieces will be performed to live music from the Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Set to Beethoven, Adagio Hammerklavier is a beautifully lyrical work, while Concertante, with music from Frank Martin’s Petite Symphonie, is a captivating combination of humour and aggression. The solos and intense pas de deux characterise van Manen’s style perfectly; sophisticated simplicity, visual logic and wonderful musicality. | |
| 12 May 11 to 14 May 11 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L0833215487 |
Mixed Programme - including The Second Detail - T0562712289Running time 2hrs 20mins (including two 20 min intervals)Corporate Sponsor Stibbe (Thu). Choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. Choreographer Hans van Manen. Choreographer Krzysztof Pastor. Choreographer William Forsythe (The Second Detail). | |
| 8 Nov 06 to 11 Nov 06 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L0952986026 |
Mixed Programme - T01699338023Music by Beethoven, Wagner, Minkus, Satie, Van Roon Dutch National Ballet presents a mixed programme that includes the famous Pas de Deux from Ludwig Minkus's Ballet Don Quixote, as well as the shorter piece Before/After, choreographed for the company's 2002 season and set to music by the contemporary Dutch composer, Marc van Roon. The timeless lyricism of the slow movement of Beethoven's piano sonata in B flat Op. 106 provides the accompaniment for Adagio Hammerklavier. A ballet for three couples, Adagio Hammerklavier has lost none of its expressive power in the 25 years since it entered Dutch National Ballet's repertoire. The passionate music from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde inspired Duet and is unashamedly romantic in its portrayal of the lovers, whilst Portrait, choreographed for a single dancer draws on the famous piano music of Eric Satie. Dutch National Ballet occupies a prominent position both nationally and internationally. With a troupe of more than seventy dancers, it is by far the largest dance company in the Netherlands and ranks amongst the leading companies in the world. Dutch National Ballet's repertoire includes a range of classical, Romantic, neo-classical, modern and contemporary choreographies and comprises a mix of intimate programmes and extensive, large-scale productions. | |
| 6 Nov 02 to 9 Nov 02 | Malvern Theatres, Malvern :: V01718852442 listing details L01108645064 |
Programme 2 - The Four Temperaments/Do Not Go Gentle/Live - T0297160137The Four Temperaments - with music by [Paul Hindemith], which examines the four main medieval personality characteristics: the melancholic, the sanguinic, the phlegmatic and the choleric. Do Not Go Gentle is [Krzysztof Pastor]'s rendering of [Stravinsky]'s In memoriam Dylan Thomas, at tribute to and interpretation of Thomas' poem, written after the death of his father. Live - a ballet for just two dancers and one cameraman. A huge success at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, the piece originates in van Manen's fascination with the moving image. The movements of the dancers are immediately projected onto the screen behind them, exploring the limitations imposed by the spatial dimensions of the stage. | |
| 16 May 01 to 18 May 01 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L285778638 |
Programme 1 - Adagio Hammerklavier/Sarcasms/Twilight/Live - T823145249Adagio Hammerklavier - set to [Beethoven]'s Piano Sonata No 29 in B flat, is a ballet for three couples whose movements display the disharmony in relationships caused by unfulfilled desires. Sarcasms - with [Prokofiev]'s Cinq Sarcasmes as its background, is a duet combining eroticism and aggression, where a man and woman provoke, reject, seduce and humiliate one another in a ritual of restlessness and irritation. Twilight - is an exploration of the movement possibilities of a dancer wearing high heels. Set to [John Cage]'s The Perilous Night, the dancer's feet are limited in their movement, only adding to the strength of her movements once those shoes are removed..... Live - a ballet for just two dancers and one cameraman. A huge success at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, the piece originates in van Manen's fascination with the moving image. The movements of the dancers are immediately projected onto the screen behind them, exploring the limitations imposed by the spatial demensions of the stage. | |
| 15 May 01 to 17 May 01 | Sadler's Wells Theatre, Inner London :: V224 listing details L1448340603 |
