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Dateline:
22nd December, 2011
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Wild Ecstasy. Dancer Miguel Altunaga © Eric Richmond &
Joe Swift |
Rambert's Spring 2012 Season
In 2012, Mark Baldwin celebrates ten years at the helm of the Rambert
Dance Company and will create his fifth work for the Company, What
Wild Ecstasy, a contemporary response to Nijinsky's seminal ballet
L'Après-midi d'un faune.
What Wild Ecstasy features a brand new score by Gavin Higgins,
Rambert's inaugural Music Fellow, which he describes as "exploring
a darker side of the faun's sensual character". It is one of 20
new works commissioned by New Music 20x12 to feature centre-stage of
the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Baldwin's modern-day take is inspired by ritualised dance gatherings:
"The primal instinct of celebrating pulse and rhythm has always
fascinated me. These gatherings may help bond a community, bolster its
individuals and act as a way of releasing tensions; a unique way in
which our species for a moment, is able to leave the world behind".
The Company will also revive the Rambert version of Vaslav Nijinsky's
L'Après-midi d'un faune in its centenary year. Ann Whitley
directs the revival of the work last performed by the Company in 1983,
with the support of former dancer of the title role and former Rambert
Artistic Director, Christopher Bruce.
The full spring season repertoire will be:
A Linha Curva
A new version for Rambert by Itzik Galili, one of Israel's most talented
choreographers.
Choreography Itzik Galili. Music Percossa (Holland) performed by Rambert
Orchestra Design and lighting design Itzik Galili
Elysian Fields
Choreographer Javier De Frutos creates a brutal and seductive new
work, set to the score from seminal film A Streetcar Named Desire.
Inspired by its author, who once said, 'dance was perhaps the last
destination where poetry could find a homeland', Elysian Fields
is a poetic incantation to Tennessee Williams and commemorates his
centenary year.
Choreography: Javier De Frutos. Music: Alex North arr. Christopher
Austin. Design: Katrina Lindsay. Lighting design: Michael Hulls
L'Après-midi d'un faune
Inspired by Debussy's languorous and shimmering score and considered
to be one of the first modern ballets, L'Après-midi d'un
faune, created for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, caused a furore
at its first performance 100 years ago. The Rambert version of Vaslav
Nijinsky's seminal short ballet is revived by the Company for the
first time in almost 30 years.
Choreography: the Rambert version of Nijinsky's choreography. Revival
Director: Ann Whitley. Music: Claude Debussy, orchestrated by Mark
Bowden. Set design: John Campbell. Costumes after Léon Bakst.
Lighting design: Sid Ellen.
Monolith
Created by Tim Rushton, artistic director of Danish Dance Theatre,
Monolith is inspired by mystical energies that haunt sites
of man-made gathering places. The rhythms and extremes of Peteris
Vasks' gutsy score, tense yet tranquil, are the perfect backdrop to
Rushton's Rambert debut.
Choreography: Tim Rushton. Music: Peteris Vasks. Design: Charlotte
Østergaard, Tim Rushton. Lighting design: Malcolm Glanville,
Tim Rushton
Roses
A rare opportunity to enjoy the work of American choreographer Paul
Taylor, described by Martha Graham as the 'naughty boy' of dance.
Roses was first created in 1985 and set to music by Richard
Wagner and Heinrich Baermann.
Choreography: Paul Taylor. Music: Heinrich Baermann, Richard Wagner.
Costume: William Ivey Long. Lighting design: Jennifer Tipton.
Seven for a Secret, Never to Be Told
Explore the world through a child's eye, a world of boxers, dragonflies
and frogs, in 15 musical movements and one action packed day. Come
out to play with this fresh and enchanting take on Ravel's score from
the 1920s, L'enfant et les sortilèges.
Choreography: Mark Baldwin. Music: Maurice Ravel / Stephen McNeff.
Design: Michael Howells. Backcloth image: Joe Swift. Lighting design:
Michael Mannion.
Sub
Israeli choreographer Itzik Galili returns with the UK première
of his high energy work, Sub, a battlefield of relentlessly
sparring testosterone.
Choreography: Itzik Galili. Music: Michael Gordon. Lighting design:
Yaron Abulafia. Costume design: Natasja Lansen.
The Art of Touch
Siobhan Davies returns to Rambert with a revival of her Olivier Award-winning
work, The Art of Touch. The speed and wit of Scarlatti's sonatas
are the triggers for the irascibly fast footwork that propels the
dancers across the floor, scooping the air as they go.
Choreography: Siobhan Davies. Music: Matteo Fargion, Domenico Scarlatti.
Design: David Buckland. Costume design: Antony McDonald. Lighting
design: Ian Beswick
What Wild Ecstasy
Mark Baldwin's new modern-day take on L'Après-midi d'un
faune is set to a pulsing and feral score by Gavin Higgins, commissioned
as part of the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.
Choreography: Mark Baldwin. Music: Gavin Higgins. Design: Michael
Howells. Lighting design: Sid Ellen.
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