Ballet
Souvenir
Description
Age category: 12+
Duration: 25 minutes
Number of intermissions: 0
One-act ballet to Bryars’ Les Fiançailles
The ballet was first staged in Perm in 2011. Running time: 25 minutes
Douglas Lee, a product of the British school of ballet, composed Souvenir while wandering along the corridors of the Perm Opera and Ballet Theatre, inspired by its profound history. The choreography is staged to music by the British minimalist composer Gavin Bryars and is full of nostalgic allusions — to the ballets of past masters like Frederick Ashton and Kenneth MacMillan, to the age of cinema goddesses, and to his own professional past: Douglas Lee composed this ballet when he finished his career as a soloist in the Stuttgarter Ballett. The ballet features various calligraphic supports and networks twisted around the main character, danced by the theatre’s prima ballerina Natalia Moiseeva.
directors
Conductor:
Valentin Uryupin
Choreographer: Douglas Lee
Set Designer: Ines Alda
Lighting Designer: Sergey Martynov
Set Designer: Ines Alda
Lighting Designer: Sergey Martynov
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