The ballet evening combines three distinctive choreographies that show femininity in its full breadth – fragile, passionate, combative and strong. The evening will open with a duet to music from Stravinsky’s ballet The Firebird, choreographed by Marc Goecke – a minimalist encounter between two shy creatures in which a relationship full of tension and longing for closeness is born. This is followed by Lea Bessoudo Greck’s choreography Sharka, set to the music of Smetana’s symphonic poem of the same name. The story of a woman’s combativeness and desire for freedom turns into a timeless image of resistance against domination and the struggle for equality. The evening concludes with Jiří Pokorný’s award-winning Carmen – a story of passion, betrayal and death, set in a contemporary industrial environment. The love triangle of Carmen, José and Lady M offers a gripping drama full of emotion and acts as the perfect climax to the evening, which brings together the themes of inner strength and the desire to be oneself.
programme
Igor Stravinsky:
The Firebird
Duet from Firebird
Shino Sakurado, Rei Masatomi
Choreography Marco Goecke
Choreography Assistant Nicole Kohlmann, Rosario Guerra
Lighting design Udo Haberland
Costumes Marco Goecke
Lighting design Nicole Kohlmann, Ondřej Šesták
Repetiteur Gianvito Attimonelli
Bedřich Smetana:
Šárka
Duet Yu Matsumoto, Edgar Mateu Navarro
Solo Guiseppe Iodice
Choreography Lea Bessoudo Greck
Choreography Assistant Nadav Gal
Set Design Pavel Knolle, Lea Bessoudo Greck
Lighting Design Ondřej Šesták, Lea Bessoudo Greck
Costumes Pavel Knolle
Musical Arrangements Davidson Jaconello
Repetiteur Natalia Adamska
Ballet of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre
Leonor Alves, Aurora Donadiós, Viola Izzo, Madalena Judas, Hannah
Lukey, Yu Matsumoto, Gvendolin Nagy, Maria Carla Ognisanto, Natalia
Ribalta, Diede Schuur, Elen Šnoblová
Maxwell Davies, Hugo Fraresso, Simone Giroletti, Mark Griffiths,
Giuseppe Iodice, James McDonell, Máté Milchram, Edgar Mateo Navarro,
Nikolas Sotiriou, Sachiya Takata, Roberto Tarantino
Georges Bizet, Rodion Konstantinovich Shchedrin:
Carmen
Who’s killing whom and with what?
Choreography Jiří Pokorný
Dramaturgical Collaboration Václav Janeček
Set Design, Lighting Design Loes Schakenbos
Costumes Marek Cpin
Musical Arrangement Davidson Jaconello
Choreography Assistant, Repetiteur Nataša Novotná
Lighting Design Tomáš Morávek
Carmen Natalia Adamska
Don José Simone Giroletti
Lady M Shino Sakurado
Escamillo Rei Masatomi
Zuniga Sachiya Takata
Animal Barnaby James Packham
Rival Rita Pires
Mercedés Laura Moreno Gasulla
Frasquita Aurora Donadiós
Dancairo Gene David Goodman
Remendado Hugo Fraresso
Friends Maria Carla Ognisanto, Elen Šnoblová, Máté Milchram, Michal Bublík
Ballet of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre
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