Jan McNulty Posted May 11, 2014 Share Posted May 11, 2014 WORLD PREMIERE OF CONNECTOME, A NEW ONE ACT BALLET BY ALASTAIR MARRIOTT, ALONGSIDE TWO CLASSICS BY FREDERICK ASHTON AND JEROME ROBBINS Saturday 31 May – Friday 13 June Alastair Marriott’s new work Connectome receives its world premiere as the centrepiece of this final programme of the Royal Ballet Season surrounded by two light-hearted classics; Frederick Ashton’s The Dream, his celebrated interpretation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Jerome Robbin’s gloriously funny The Concert. Connectome is Marriott’s first commission for The Royal Ballet since Trespass for Metamorphsis: Titian 2012, a collaboration with Christopher Wheeldon. This new ballet offers another exciting opportunity to see Marriott’s distinctive and classically inspired choreography. The name of the work describes the comprehensive map of the neural connections in the brain – a ‘wiring diagram’. With music by Avro Pärt including his ‘Lord’s Prayer’ sung by a boy soprano, the creative talents of award winning designer Es Devlin in her first set design for The Royal Ballet, and an immersive installation by lighting designer Bruno Poet, this new work is much anticipated. Principal dancers Natalia Osipova, Steven McRae and Edward Watson lead the cast and Music Director Barry Wordsworth conducts. Frederick Ashton’s The Dream premiered in 1964 and this 50th anniversary revival also coincides with the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare’s birth. The Dream captures all the comic confusion of Shakespeare’s play in inventive choreography with the tempestuous Oberon and Titania, the high-spirited misadventures of the two pairs of mortal lovers combining with the humorous cavorting of Bottom, a role famous for putting a male dancer en pointe. Felix Mendelssohn’s much loved incidental music including the well-known Overture, Scherzo, Nocturne and Wedding March provides a perfect partner to Ashton’s choreography. The final work in the programme is Jerome Robbins’s The Concert. A brilliantly funny piece exposing the wandering thoughts and desires of an audience at a Chopin piano recital, the result is a beautifully crafted spoof of a classical music concert and even of classical ballet itself. The Concert had its premiere in New York in 1956 and entered the repertory of The Royal Ballet in 1975. Robbins, famous for his Oscar-winning choreography of the original West Side Story, brings his unique and imaginative choreographic flair to this humorous piece. -ENDS- THE DREAM - FREDERICK ASHTON CONNECTOME - ALASTAIR MARRIOTT THE CONCERT - JEROME ROBBINS Saturday 31 May – Friday 13 June, Royal Opera House Evening Performance at 7.00pm Saturday 31 May Evening Performances at 7.30pm Thursday 5, Friday 6, Tuesday 10, Thursday 12, Friday 13 June at 7.30pm BOX OFFICE 0207 304 4000 www.roh.org.uk Generous philanthropic support from Lindsay and Sarah Tomlinson, Celia Blakey and Kristina Rogge (The Dream); Sarah and Lloyd Dorfman and Marina Hobson OBE (Connectome); and The Fonteyn Circle (The Concert) CASTING THE DREAM 31 May at 7pm, 5 June at 7.30pm Titania Roberta Marquez Oberon Steven McRae 6 and 12 June at 7.30pm Titania Natalia Osipova* Oberon Matthew Golding* 10 and 13 June at 7.30pm Titania Laura Morera* Oberon Federico Bonelli* CONNECTOME 31 May at 7pm, 5, 10, 13 June at 7.30pm Natalia Osipova* Steven McRae* Edward Watson* 6 and 12 June at 7.30pm Sarah Lamb* Alexander Campbell* Ricardo Cervera* THE CONCERT All performances Ballerina Lauren Cuthbertson * Wife Laura Morera* Husband Bennet Gartside* Shy Boy James Wilkie* *Debut performance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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