2013|14 season - The National Ballet of Canada

“Impressively original... mysterious, innovative
and enthralling”
Channel Rivera, Cannes, France
presents
Spectre
de la Rose
Spectre de la Rose &
Opus 19/The Dreamer &
the second detail
May 28—June 1, 2014
Michel Fokine’s landmark 1911 ballet Le Spectre de la Rose has been lavishly re-imagined
by the exciting young Choreographer-in-Residence with Stuttgart Ballet, Marco Goecke.
While preserving the central dynamic between The Young Girl and The Spirit of the Rose,
Goecke has added both dancers and music to the ballet, creating a broader thematic and
choreographic context in which the work can unfold. Goecke’s fresh reading of this great
modern classic is a genuine revelation.
Jerome Robbins’ work traversed the spectrum of modern dance, from Broadway
shows to severe abstraction, but whether in narrative or non-narrative situations, his
ballets always take delight in the emotive and expressive possibilities of human movement.
His late work Opus 19/The Dreamer is the abstract Robbins and, set to Prokofiev’s Violin
Concerto No.1 in D Major, exemplifies beautifully the tensions in his work and personality
between the bold experimenter and the inconsolable romantic.
The arch antagonist of received ballet wisdom, William Forsythe’s choreographic
provocations have earned him as much notoriety as acclaim. Yet beneath the anarchic
comedy, the fiercely deconstructive and random-seeming surface of a work such as the
second detail there lurks an ungainly but defiant elegance, a vision of dance that forces us
to look anew at ballet’s meanings and potentialities.
Xiao Nan Yu and Guillaume Côté in Opus 19/The Dreamer
Sonia Rodriguez in the second detail
Nathalie Nordquist of Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo in Spectre de la Rose
Spectre de la Rose
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Staged by: Giovanni di Palma
Music: Carl Maria von Weber
Costume Design: Michaela Springer
Lighting Design: Udo Haberland
Spectre de la Rose is supported by
The Producers’ Circle.
Opus 19/The Dreamer
Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Staged by: Jean-Pierre Frohlich
Music: Sergei Prokofiev,
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
Costume Design: Ben Benson
Lighting Design: Jennifer Tipton
Opus 19/The Dreamer is made possible
by a generous contribution from David &
Torunn Banks.
the second detail
Choreography: William Forsythe
Staged by: Jill Johnson
Music: Thom Willems
Costume, Set and Lighting Design:
William Forsythe
White dress: Issey Miyake
the second detail is a gift from
The Volunteer Committee,
The National Ballet of Canada.
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