Norwegian National Ballet: Théâtre des Champs‐Elysées

About the Event

A kaleidoscopic evening in which we can discover all the choreographic inventiveness of the great names in contemporary ballet.

MÉMOIRES D'OUBLIETTES Created on 29 October 2009 for NDT at the Lucent Danstheater in The Hague
Jiří Kylián | choreography
Dirk Haubrich, Sabine Kupferberg, Jiří Kylián | music
Jiří Kylián, Yoko Seyama | set design
Joke Visser | costumes
Tatsuo Unemi, Daniel Bisig | video conception
Kees Tjebbes | lighting

NO MORE PLAY Created on 24 November 1988 for NDT at the AT&T Danstheater in The Hague
Jiří Kylián | choreography, costumes, sets
Anton Webern | music
Jiří Kylián, Joop Caboort | lighting

PETITE MORT Created on 23 August 1991 at the Kleines Festspielhaus in Salzburg
Jiří Kylián | choreography, sets
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | music
Joke Visser | costumes
Jiří Kylián, Joop Caboort | lighting

SWEET DREAMS Created on 24 May 1990 for NDT at AT&T Danstheater in The Hague
Jiří Kylián | choreography, sets
Anton Webern | music
Joke Visser | costumes
Jiří Kylián, Joop Caboort | lighting

POLONAISE DE ARCIMBOLDO (finale) Created on 13 May 1994 for NDT 1, 2, 3 at Lucent Danstheater in The Hague
Jiří Kylián | choreography, lighting
Piotr Ilitch Tchaïkovski, Franz Schubert | music
Michael Simon | sets
Joke Visser | costumes

Recorded music

The collaboration between Jiří Kylián and the Norwegian National Ballet goes back over thirty years. The company boasts almost twenty of his works in its repertoire. To celebrate this long professional association, the ballet and its director Ingrid Lorentzen are presenting this end‐of‐season programme entitled Celebrating Kylián, featuring no fewer than five works by the Czech choreographer.