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The National Ballet will tour to Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia for the first time in its history.The National Ballet will perform at the Stanislavsky Theatre in Moscow on October 15 and 16 and the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg on October 19 as part of Diana Vishneva's Context festival.
Music Director and Principal Conductor David Briskin will conduct The Stanislavsky Orchestra in Moscow and the Mariinsky Orchestra in St. Petersburg.
In his 2013 work Paz de la Jolla, New York City Ballet dancer and Resident Choreographer Justin Peck has created a heartfelt and sun-washed homage to his southern California upbringing. Set to Martinů’s Sinfonietta la Jolla, the ballet is a gorgeously conceived, sweet-natured billet-doux to beach life and young love, the choreography both brisk and languid, salty and sensual, rich in emotional undercurrents and evocative of the pleasures and fears of youth and coming of age.
National Ballet Principal Dancer Guillaume Côté has always brought to the many roles he has performed an unstinting spirit of passionate exploration and emotional honesty. As a Choreographic Associate with the company, those same principles apply. In Being and Nothingness from 2015, he finds in his source material, Jean-Paul Sartre's landmark philosophical work of the same name, questions of freedom, the nature of selfhood and the meaning of existence and illuminates those abstract ideas in his highly expressive, richly physical choreographic style.
Crystal Pite’s Emergence was the sensation of the season when it premiered with the National Ballet in 2009. Subsequent stagings have shown it has lost none of its power to provoke, startle and intrigue. The work posits the instinct for social organization found in the insect realm as a precise metaphor for human interaction and purpose, with swarms and waves of dancers recreating in a dimly-lit, subterranean hive the intricate forms and patterns of life that seem to unite both the natural and human-made worlds.
Moscow – October 15 – 16, St. Petersburg – October 19
Being and Nothingness
Paz de la Jolla
Emergence
Paz de la Jolla
Choreography:
Justin Peck
Staged By:
Christian Tworzyanski
Music:
Bohuslav Martinů
Costume Design:
Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung
Lighting Design:
Mark Stanley
Being and Nothingness
Choreography:
Guillaume Côté
Music:
Philip Glass
Set Design:
Michael Levine
Costume Design:
Krista Dowson
Lighting Design:
David Finn
Emergence
Choreography:
Crystal Pite
Staged By:
Eric Beauchesne
Original Score:
Owen Belton
Set Design:
Jay Gower Taylor
Costume Design:
Linda Chow
Lighting Design:
Alan Brodie
Photo: Scene from Emergence. ©2013 Bruce Zinger.
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