Les Ballets Russes: Bavarian State Ballet

演出简介

Experience bright, exciting dance pieces, reconstructed for the Bayerisches Staatsballett.

The Ballets Russes, a formation brought together by Serge Diaghilev in the early 20th century, truly crossed boundaries and reconciled the arts. Their productions were everything all at once: Ecstatic forays into the past, saturated with the lushest and most vibrant colours, indulging in excess, and of the strictest formal purity – in short, synonymous for avant‐garde.

At the same time as this unique group made its first appearances in Germany, catapulting its audiences into a state of frenzy, Germany's own dance scene was celebrating equally revolutionary changes. The stylistic heterogeneity of the works by the Ballets Russes, the mysterious mixture of contemporaneity, opulence and exoticism has lost none of its fascination.

Shéhérazade, a tragic tale of love, desire and death which seemed almost lost to posterity, was fastidiously reconstructed, as was Les Biches, a humourous episode set in the Côte d'Azur of the 1920s and exuding the charm, frivolity and eroticism.

Once upon an ever after – an evocative title derivative of fairytale syntax since time immemorial. Terence Kohler's choreography, set to Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique", is a journey through dance history which redistributes and re‐interprets staple figures of classical Russian narrative ballet.

Les Biches

Conductor: Valery Ovsianikov
Choreography: Bronislawa Nijinska
Music: Francis Poulenc

Once Upon An Ever After

Conductor: Valery Ovsianikov
Choreography: Terence Kohler
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky

Shéhérazade

Condcutor: Valery Ovsianikov
Choreography: Mikhail Fokine
Music: Nikolai Rimsky‐Korsakov