Multi-part ballet evening
Premiere
15. October 2021,
No further performances in the current season.
Please note: Some biographies reflect the information available at the time of the respective premiere date and are not necessarily updated on an ongoing basis.
Premiere cast
- Choreografie & Bühnenbild William Forsythe
- Costume Design Stephen Galloway
- Lighting Design Tanja Rühl, William Forsythe
- Staged by Laura Graham
- Ilaria Ghironi, Ayaha Tsunaki, Elena Karpuhina, Václav Lamparter, Rodrigo Pinto
- Choreografie (nach Lew Iwanow) Aaron S. Watkin
- Music Pjotr I. Tschaikowsky
- Costume Design Erik Västhed
- Licht (nach Wieland Müller-Haslinger) Fabio Antoci, Aaron S. Watkin
- Staged by Marcelo Gomes
- Odette Sangeun Lee
- Prinz Siegfried Gareth Haw
- 12 Schwanenmädchen Alderya Avci, Evelyn Bovo, Kaitlyn Casey, Swanice Luong, Mariavittoria Muscettola, Nastazia Philippou, Anri Sugiura, Jia Sun, Yazmin Verhage, Ella Vickerman, Simona Volpe, Natsuki Yamada
- Choreografie (nach Marius Petipa) Aaron S. Watkin
- Musik (u.a.) Adolphe Adam
- Lighting Design Fabio Antoci
- Staged by Olga Kostritzky
- 1. Variation Gina Scott
- 2. Variation Anna Nevzorova
- 3. Variation Madison Whiteley
- Choreografie & Bühnenbild David Dawson
- Music Claude Debussy
- Costume Design Yumiko Takeshima
- Lighting Design David Dawson, Bert Dalhuysen
- Staged by Rebecca Gladstone
- Alejandro Azorín, Jón Vallejo
- Choreography Jorma Elo
- Music Joseph Haydn
- Marcelo Gomes
- Choreografie & Kostüme Nicholas Palmquist
- Music Alexandra Stréliski
- Bühnenbild & Licht Fabio Antoci, Nicholas Palmquist
- Anthony Bachelier, Kaitlyn Casey, Kristóf Kovács, Jenny Laudadio, Swanice Luong, Anicet Marandel, Skyler Maxey-Wert, Mariavittoria Muscettola, Nastazia Philippou, James Potter, Francesco Pio Ricci
Music from tape
Generously supported by the Semperoper Foundation
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Making-of
A Collection of Short Stories – Making-of (1)
A Collection of Short Stories is a creation of Nicholas Palmquist. In his choreography he traces human relationships and their fissures, embedded in a spatially expansive piano composition by Alexandra Stréliski. In our making-of video, Nicholas talks about his thoughts on his choreography.
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Making-of
A Collection of Short Stories – Making-of (2)
FAUN(E) is a piece created by our Associate Choreographer David Dawson. This abstract and timeless contemporary work was premiered at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre in 2009. Constructed in the form of a duet between two dancers, at the end of which one of them is left behind to seek her/his own happiness alone, FAUN(E) explores questions of duality, sexuality and identity.
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A Collection of Short Stories
This new multi-part ballet evening will display the entire artistic spectrum of the Semperoper Ballett under the direction of Aaron S. Watkin in a versatile programme that ranges between classical and neo-classical ballet as well as contemporary dance. William Forsythe’s The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude (1996) is a pure distillation of the skills and achievements of neo-classical dance in pointe shoes and tutus. Dresden audiences will have their first chance to see the pas de deux FAUN(E) for two men or two women by associate choreographer David Dawson, inspired by Claude Debussy’s famous composition. And as a special highlight, principal Marcelo Gomes will dance the solo Still of King by Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo, created for him in 2011. The master of classical ballet, Marius Petipa, is also represented with excerpts from Swan Lake and Le Corsaire, both in versions by Aaron S. Watkin. The evening closes with a new work by the young American choreographer Nicholas Palmquist. In A Collection of Short Stories, he traces human relationships and their fissures, embedded in a spatially expansive piano composition by Alexandra Stréliski.