Details

Three one-act ballets of energy, joy and entertainment. Grosse Fuge sees the delicate interplay between groups of men and women who initially seem to ignore one another, before finally dancing together in glorious celebration. Slaughter on Tenth Avenue is a crazy 30s comedy, its humour and vitality providing sparkling entertainment. After discovering a hitman in the audience is to target him as soon as his stage routine is over, a luckless leading man has no option but to extend his frantic solo until the cops can arrive! Finally Theme and Variations is a joyous ballet, and the first that Birmingham Royal Ballet performed following the Company's move to the midlands. With its thrilling Tchaikovsky music and sumptuous décor, it has delighted audiences all over the world, being described as 'a compressed Sleeping Beauty'! Birmingham Royal Ballet - On Their Toes! - Grosse Fuge/Slaughter on Tenth Avenue/Theme and Variations website.

Creatives/Company

Company: Birmingham Royal Ballet
Music(s): Beethoven (Grosse Fuge), Richard Rodgers (Slaughter on Tenth Avenue), Tchaikovsky (Theme and Variations)
Choreographer(s): Hans van Manen (Grosse Fuge), George Balanchine (Slaughter on Tenth Avenue), George Balanchine (Theme and Variations)
Other(s): Mea Venema (staged - Grosse Fuge), Patricia Neary (staging - Theme and Variations)
Design(s): Jean-Paul Vroom (Grosse Fuge), Kate Ford (Slaughter on Tenth Avenue), Peter Farmer (Theme and Variations)
Costume: Hans van Manen (Grosse Fuge)
Lighting(s): Jan Hofstra (Grosse Fuge), Nicholas Royld (Slaughter on Tenth Avenue), John B. Read (Theme and Variations)