Ballet company of the National Theatre in Brno will present the second premiere of the season 2015/2016 on 21st January 2016. The triple bill evening consists of choreography of three creators - Jiří Kylián, Mário Radačovský and Lukáš Timuľák. Jiří Kylián's piece Petite Mort gave the name to the whole bill.The premiere evening opens with two pieces by the artistic director of NTB Ballet Mário Radačovský. His original ballet Beethoven that was premiered this spring by the North American Grand Rapids Ballet will open in Brno. Choreographic miniature on Beethoven’s first movement of 5th symphony is a dancing symphony orchestra without conductor. The second Radačovský’s piece will be Together to the music of Franz Schubert. „Together is a micro story of man and his path in life, with all the ups and downs, searching, finding and losing, joys and disappointments, the constant attempts to stand on his own feet. On the road of life we often go along with someone or next to someone. We lose companions and gain them again, but it is important not to stay alone. Together is also about that,” says the choreographer.
Lukáš Timulák is a young Slovak choreographer who has had a career as a dancer of Les Ballets de Monte Carlo and the Nederlands Dans Theater. He began to make choreography since his arrival in NDT in choreographic workshops, and later for NDT 1, NDT 2 and ensembles in Switzerland, Sweden or Slovak Republic. Masculine / Feminine was created for NDT 2 in 2011. „It humorously explores some of the greatest mysteries of our day to day lives. As the title suggests, the differences between men and women are the inescapable result of our biology,” say representatives of the NTB.
The evening concludes with Petite Mort by Jiří Kylián. The author created the ballet specifically for the Salzburg Festival to mark the bicentenary of the death of Mozart in 1991. For his choreography he chose slow parts of the two Mozart piano concertos.
This season the NTB Ballet focused on expanding the repertoire of neo-classical and contemporary choreographic works. After the autumn premiere, when George Balanchine was put on the repertoire for the first time, it will now be Petite Mort by Jiří Kylián. „Kylián's masterpiece ranks among his most popular works ever today. And we need to talk about prestige, which both names, Kylián and Balanchine, bring to our ballet company and theater. We now belong to the fifty selected companies of the world that have these two names in their repertoire. And this fact is all the more valuable because our company is not specializing solely on the neoclassical and contemporary repertoire, but we also perform great classic titles such as Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and La Bayadere by Minkus. This wide repertoire puts on dance artists far higher demands. On their technical level and readiness, in the manner of interpretation, form, style. But it is, of course, far more complex and demanding in terms of production, operationally and economically," say representatives of NTB Ballet.
Source: National Theatre Brno
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