New York City Ballet to perform some of the world’s most beautiful ballets in Tivoli 1–6 September 2008
New York City Ballet, one of the world’s great ballet companies, will visit Tivoli with three diverse programmes showcasing ten works from the Company’s unparalleled repertory.
Included are ballets from George Balanchine, NYCB’s legendary co-founder, Peter Martins, the Company’s Danish-born Ballet Master in Chief, who has led NYCB since 1983, as well as works by such acclaimed choreographers as Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Christopher Wheeldon, Mauro Bigonzetti, and Alexei Ratmansky.
Featuring nearly 100 dancers, NYCB will give seven performances at Tivoli Concert Hall from September 1 through 6, 2008.
”Tivoli is proud and pleased to present once again one of the world’s foremost ballet companies. New York City Ballet is the international ballet company that is closest to the heart of the Danish audience. Thousands of Danes have been to the Tivoli Concert Hall countless times and delighted in NYCB’s performances of Serenade, Symphony in C and all the other classical works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins. In addition, the Company’s guest performances have allowed Danish audiences to experience some of the newest works to enter the ballet repertory. For me, the summer visit by NYCB is a wonderful and essential part of a 30-year-old Tivoli tradition,” says Peter Bo Bendixen, Tivoli’s Ballet Master.
The season will open with an all Balanchine programme (Programme A), featuring three of the choreographer’s greatest works: Serenade, one of the New York City Ballet’s signature works, and the first ballet created by Balanchine in the USA, Symphony in three Movements, a neoclassical masterpiece to the music of Igor Stravinsky, and Symphony in C, a dazzling exhibition of the grand style that is a hallmark of New York City Ballet.
Best known for such Broadway classics as West Side Story, and Fiddler on the Roof, director and choreographer Jerome Robbins made NYCB his artistic home for more than 40 years. During his lifetime Robbins allowed only a few companies other than NYCB to perform his ballets, so an evening with three of his works is a first in Denmark.
New York City Ballet’s all Robbins programme (Programme B) will feature the playful and energetic Interplay; his ballet masterpiece Dances at a Gathering, set to a chain of piano pieces by Frederic Chopin; and Brahms/Handel, Robbins’ 1983 collaboration with choreographer Twyla Tharp.
Sophisticated dynamics and sensual elegance were the words the press used to describe Peter Martins Hallelujah Junction choreographed for the Royal Danish Ballet in 2001. This work will open the third programme (Programme C), which consists exclusively of works from this millennium. Also included is the pas de deux from After the Rain by Christopher Wheeldon, one of the most sought-after choreographers in the world today; a ballet by the Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, whose work will be seen for the first time in Denmark; and finally, Russian Seasons by Alexei Ratmansky, who is currently the Artistic Director of Moscow’s Bolshoi Ballet, and is well know to Danish audiences for the Nutcracker he choreographed for Tivoli in 2001 and for Anna Karenina created for The Royal Danish Ballet in 2004.
The New York City Ballet will perform at the Concert Hall from 1 to 6 September 2008. All performances start at 7.30 p.m. On Saturday there will also be a matinée performance at 3.00 p.m.
The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by the New York City Ballet’s own conductors.
Tickets for the New York City Ballet will be on sale from Tuesday, 18 December 2007. Tickets for the New York City Ballet are available from Tivoli’s Ticket Centre (tel. +45 33 15 10 12) or at BILLETnet (tel. +45 70 15 65 65).
Sweden (tel. +46 775 700 400).
Ticket prices: DKK 300 – 750 (excluding booking fee) including admission to Tivoli.
Photo can be downloaded here:
NYCB programme in Tivoli from 1 to 6 September 2008
Programme A (All Balanchine) will be performed on 1, 5 and 6 September at 7.30 p.m.: Serenade (Tschaikovsky/Balanchine)Symphony in three Movements (Stravinsky/Balanchine)Symphony in C (Bizet/Balanchine)Read more about the ballets here: Serenade: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=163Symphony in three Movements: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=187Symphony in C: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=188
Programme B (All Robbins) will be performed on 2 September at 7.30 p.m. and 6 September at 3 p.m: Interplay (Gould/Robbins)Dances at a Gathering (Chopin/Robbins)Brahms/Handel (Brahms/Robbins, Tharp)Read more about the ballets here:Interplay: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=95Dances at a Gathering: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=54Brahms/Handel: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=34
Programme C will be performed on 3 and 4 September at 7.30 p.m.: Hallelujah Junction (Adams/Martins)After the Rain PDD (Pärt/Wheeldon)Bigonzetti (Moretti/Bigonzetti)Russian Seasons (Desyatnikov/Ratmansky)
Read more about the ballets here:
Hallelujah Junction: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=229
After the Rain PDD: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=464
Bigonzetti: New ballet world premiere in 2008 Russian Seasons: http://www.nycballet.com/company/rep.html?rep=558
Best regards
Tatjana Vang
Press Coordinator
The Tivoli Concert Hall
Tel.: +45 33 75 07 11
