Press Release: Scottish Ballet announces Autumn Season 2015

[Jan McNulty]

SCOTTISH BALLET

 

AUTUMN SEASON 2015 ANNOUNCEMENT

 

 

Scottish Ballet is pleased to announce that Maze, a new work created by Company dancer Sophie Laplane, will be added to the bill for the upcoming Autumn Season.

 

Scottish Ballet is committed to helping develop new choreographers and offers regular opportunities for dancers who wish to grow their choreographic skills. Christopher Hampson, Scottish Ballet’s Artistic Director, has worked closely with Laplane over the past few years, nurturing her remarkable natural choreographic talent and giving her platforms to show her work.

 

Sophie Laplane’s Oxymore was showcased at the Edinburgh International Festival in 2013 as part of Scottish Ballet’s Dance Odysseys, was included in Scottish Ballet’s Up Close tour in 2014 and most recently was performed at the TEDx Glasgow event. Laplane created Sink In for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2014 and will debut a new work on Friday at the Independent:BALLET event as part of the Cottier Dance Project.

 

Maze has developed from being part of the Royal Ballet’s Draft Works programme for emerging choreographers and this will be Laplane’s first work to be performed in a large scale theatre. It will appear as part of Scottish Ballet’s exciting Autumn Season alongside Elsa Canasta by Javier de Frutos and Motion of Displacement, a world premiere from Bryan Arias.

 

“Sophie has been consistently developing her choreographic style and is ready for the next step. Ensuring that new work is developed for Scottish Ballet’s repertoire is essential to our growth and I’m delighted that we’re able to showcase a choreographer from within the Company alongside emerging choreographer, Bryan Arias and a master in his field, Javier de Frutos.”

Scottish Ballet Artistic Director and Acting Chief Executive Christopher Hampson

 

“I am so excited that my new work Maze is being included in Scottish Ballet’s Autumn Season. It is amazing news and I am just really thankful to Scottish Ballet for the opportunity to showcase my work.”

            Scottish Ballet dancer Sophie Laplane

 

Elsa Canasta, Motion of Displacement and Maze will be performed at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow, Festival Theatre in Edinburgh, Eden Court in Inverness and His Majesty’s Theatre in Aberdeen in September and October 2015.

 

 

EDITORS NOTES:

 

Sophie Laplane Biography

 

Sophie Laplane trained at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris, winning the Prize of the CNSMDP Mention Bien. Prior to this, she trained at the Paris Opera Ballet School. She danced with Le Ballet de Lorraine from 2003 to 2004 and was a member of The Junior Ballet Classique du Conservatoire de Paris between 2002 and 2003. She joined Scottish Ballet in winter 2004, and was promoted to Coryphée in July 2011. Significant roles have included playing Stella in Lopez’s Ochoa A Streetcar Named Desire and Juliet’s friend in Pastor’s Romeo and Juliet as well as performing in Matthew Bourne’s Highland Fling.

Reviews for previous work Oxymore

 

"Company member Sophie Laplane reveals a sharp, sussed instinct for eye-catching movement in Oxymore - so cool, it's hot."

The Herald, 2013

 

"If Darrell represented where Scottish Ballet started, then Sophie Laplane‘s duet, Oxymore, shows the cutting edge of a new generation within the company. (…) Electronic, repetitive, catchy are the sounds and so is the dance – dance of4AM Ibiza rather than ballet or contemporary (…). A chic 6-minute piece and where Laplane goes from here should be interesting."

Bruce Marriott, DanceTabs, 2013

 

 

LISTINGS

 

Scottish Ballet presents Elsa Canasta, Motion of Displacement and Maze

 

Theatre Royal, Glasgow

Thu 24 – Sat 26 Sep 2015 - 7.30pm

Free pre-show talks at 6.30pm on Fri 25 Sep with Artistic staff and Sat 26 with Music staff. Free post-show talk on Fri 25 Sep at 9.30pm.

Tickets from £14-£24.

Box office 0844 412 4300 (bkg fee)

 

Festival Theatre, Edinburgh 

Tue 29 – Wed 30 Sep 2015 – 7.30pm

Free pre-show talks at 6.30pm on Tue 29 Sep with Artistic staff and Wed 30 with Music staff. Free post-show talk on Tue29 at 9.30pm.

Tickets from £14.25-£27.25.

Box office 0131 529 6000 (bkg fee)

 

Eden Court Theatre, Inverness

Fri 2 – Sat 3 Oct 2015 – 7.30pm

Free pre-show talks at 6.30pm on Fri 2 Oct and free post-show talk on Fri 2 Oct at 9.30pm.

Tickets £22.

Box office 01463 234 234 (bkg fee) 

 

His Majesty’s Theatre, Aberdeen

Fri 9 – Sat 10 Oct - 7.30pm

Free pre-show talks at 6.30pm on Fri 9 Oct and free post-show talk on Fri 9 Oct at 9.30pm.

Tickets from £17-£23.

Box office 0844 412 4300 (bkg fee)