Michael Clark launches three-year Stravinsky project
(November 2005)
The Michael Clark Dance Company has embarked on an ambitious three year Stravinsky project in association with the BITE season at the Barbican in London. The first instalment was a new version of Clark’s O, his ballet based around Stravinsky’s Apollo. This autumn will bring a reworking of Mmm… set to The Rite of Spring and in 2007 a brand new piece based on Les Noces followed by a tour of all three danceworks.
"There are oblique references to Balanchine’s famous 1928 ballet, but Clark has stamped his personal style all over O. Shaped by his love of the classical technique, it’s a love letter to the building blocks of its language. Balances hang in the air like unfinished sentences; the line of dance is etched with the precision of a master draughtsman. The confident calm of the writing conjures a shimmering serenity."
The Guardian
Kim Bandstrup is choreographing a new version of Pulcinella for Birmingham Royal Ballet opening on 3 May as part of the city’s continuing IgorFest. It will be presented in an all-Stravinsky triple bill with Balanchine’s Apollo and Fokine’s The Firebird.
A new BBC2 TV drama Riot at the Rite, due for telecast in the UK on 18 February, portrays the historic premiere of The Rite of Spring in Paris in 1913. Adam Garcia and Alex Jennings star as Nijinsky and Diaghilev, and the complete performance within the film features the Finnish National Ballet and the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Osmo Vänskä.
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