25.02.2011
Ballets by Jiří Kylián and Nacho Duato
On 19 and 20 November in the framework of the Mikhailovsky Grand Prix the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre will present three ballets by the world renowned choreographers: Sechs Tänze and Petite Mort by Jiří Kylián and Na Floresta by Nacho Duato.
The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre was the first theatre in Russia to include in its repertory Kylián’s ballets. The ballets Sechs Tänze and Petite Mort set to Mozart’s music premiered in Moscow in July 2010. “Games with rapiers and following the hoop petticoats, trying powdered wigs and laced corsets on — the two small ballets by Kylián revive the courtly world of Mozart’s times seen by a modern man,” Anna Galayda commented in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The one-act ballet Na Floresta choreographed by Nacho Duato is a magnificent piece praising the beauty of the Amazonian rain forest, draws the very essence of its splendour from folklore. A passionate energy circulates within this work made upof sequences full of both substance and fluidity. Its success at its 1990 premiere was phenomenal. A plotless work to Villa-Lobos music intended to communicate an intimacy and a feeling for nature that is greater than our contact with other beings. “In order to understand what it means — to cry and to be proud of a movement — one should watch Duato’s ballets,” Maya Krylova commented in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre was the first theatre in Russia to include in its repertory Kylián’s ballets. The ballets Sechs Tänze and Petite Mort set to Mozart’s music premiered in Moscow in July 2010. “Games with rapiers and following the hoop petticoats, trying powdered wigs and laced corsets on — the two small ballets by Kylián revive the courtly world of Mozart’s times seen by a modern man,” Anna Galayda commented in Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The one-act ballet Na Floresta choreographed by Nacho Duato is a magnificent piece praising the beauty of the Amazonian rain forest, draws the very essence of its splendour from folklore. A passionate energy circulates within this work made upof sequences full of both substance and fluidity. Its success at its 1990 premiere was phenomenal. A plotless work to Villa-Lobos music intended to communicate an intimacy and a feeling for nature that is greater than our contact with other beings. “In order to understand what it means — to cry and to be proud of a movement — one should watch Duato’s ballets,” Maya Krylova commented in Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
