BALLET
RISING AND FALLING
Premiere Nov 15, 2018, 6.30 PM
Jiří Myron Theatre
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RISING AND FALLING

Premiere Nov 15, 2018, 6.30 PM - Jiří Myron Theatre

The dance beyond the limits of dreams
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An evening of three unique choreographies will carry us through the dance beyond the limits of dreams.
 
For the first time, as the Czech première, we will present three noteworthy choreographies with a tinge of the existentialistic overtone. Útěk obra /Humpback Runner, Alice and Křídla z vosku / Wings of Wax, which are related through the fanciful world of dance. The choreography Křídla z vosku / Wings of Wax of the world-famous Czech choreographer Jiří Kylián is already the third choreography of this author which has been presented in the ballet repertory of NDM since 2013.
Útěk obra / Humpback Runner
Jiří Pokorný, the choreographer of the dance playHumpback Runner, is one of the most successful Czech dancers and in the recent years also one of the most successful choreographers coming from “the Kylian's hatchery”. He spent a long time in Nederlands Dans Theater, for several years he had been dancing in the dance company Kidd Pivot of the Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite and in the recent years, he has been more intensively dedicated to his own work.
Jiří has found the inspiration for his choreography Humpback Runner in the work of Hieronymus Bosch, a famous painter of the middle ages, whose fanciful vision of the hell and paradise has influenced spiritually oriented works for centuries.  Pokorný uses the visual inspiration as the opportunity to perform fanciful situations evoking critical moments of human destinies and their metamorphoses. 
The Humpback Runner (in the Czech language Útěk Obra) is the name of the dance play, which was created in 2016 for the junior company Nederlands Dans Theater 2, created by Jiří Kylián. Its performance is the unique opportunity to transfer the work created for the young and dynamic company NTD 2 to Ostrava. 
 
Choreography: Jiří Pokorný
Music Yukari Sawaki (original vocal composition for this choreography), Hayden Calnin, Joanna Newsom, Biosphere
 
Alice
The second choreography Alice has been prepared by the duo of young creators: Denis Untila from Moldavia and Michelle Yamamoto from Brasil. Both of them are former charges of the that time Mario Schröder's theatre and in the recent years, they have succeeded as the choreographers in Aalto Ballet Essen, Germany. In 2012, Denis Untila won Aalto Stage Prize for young artists.
Their joint choreography Alice uses authentic dance means to introduce us to the bizarre world of fantasy. The main heroine of the well known Lewis Carroll's story falls into a deformed fanciful world full of grotesque situations and peculiar, weird and at the same time beautiful adventures. She sinks into worries and even suspicions that the world around her went insane but after all, she embraces the idea that everything she meets are the necessary original effects of the human quest and the manifestation of the life which is always an adventurous way to the unknown. 
 
Choreography: Denis Untila & Michelle Yamamoto
Music Max Richter and original musical collages
 
Křídla z vosku / Wings of Wax
The height of the evening is the Kylián's choreography Wings of Wax based on the tragic story of Icarus and his father Daedalus. In the author's original interpretation, the classical story becomes a metaphor for the essence of virtuosic dance which, regardless to the technical preparation and the study of the piece, always bears the risks of a painful fall.  This provides the dance with an emotional attractiveness but also with an existential seriousness and depth and convincingly updates the classical work to an image of our current everyday struggles and endeavours. 
 
Choreography: Jiří Kylián
Music Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber, John Cage, Philip Glass, Johann Sebastian Bach
 
 
Národní divadlo moravskoslezské
logoProduction team
Choreography
Jiří Kylián
Denis Untila
Michelle Yamamoto
Jiří Pokorný
Set designer
Michael Simon
Denis Untila
Michelle Yamamoto
Jiří Pokorný
Costume designer
Joke Visser
Denis Untila
Michelle Yamamoto
Jiří Pokorný
Music
Heinrich von Biber
John Cage
Philip Glass
Johann Sebastian Bach
Max Richter
Thomas Newman
Lars Holmer
Jean - Marc Zelwer
Paul McCartney
Luigi Boccherini
Yukari Sawaki
Hayden Calnin
Joanna Newson
Assistant choreography
Cora Bos-Kroese
Stefan Żeromski
Aya Misaki
Nataša Novotná
Light designer
Michael Simon
Loes Schakenbos
Light realization
Kees Tjebbes
Jan Tranta
Repetitor
Lenka Dřímalová
Nataša Novotná
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Date Time Stage Type Detail Tickets
Nov 15, 20186.30 PMJiří Myron TheatrePremiereshow detail
Nov 17, 20186.30 PMJiří Myron Theatre2nd premiereshow detail
Nov 18, 20183.00 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Dec 13, 20186.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Dec 14, 20186.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Mar 26, 20196.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Mar 27, 20196.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Apr 5, 20196.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Apr 7, 20194.00 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Apr 30, 20197.00 PMDivadlo HyberniaRepetitionshow detail
Oct 17, 20196.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Oct 23, 20196.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Jan 7, 20206.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreRepetitionshow detail
Jan 8, 20206.30 PMJiří Myron TheatreDerniereshow detail

The play is no longer in our repertoire.

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KŘÍDLA Z VOSKU / WINGS OF WAX

Photo by: Anna Rasmussen
Stefano Pietragalla, Brittany Catalinas Haws
Photo by: Anna Rasmussen
Koki Nishioka, Shino Sakurado
Photo by: Anna Rasmussen
Stefano Pietragalla, Brittany Catalinas Haws
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Sergio Méndez Romero, Sawa Shiratsuki
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ALICE

Shino Sakurado
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ALICE

Shino Sakurado, Stefano Pietragalla
Photo by: Anna Rasmussen
ALICE

Shino Sakurado, Maria Araújo Martins
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ALICE

Rei Masatomi
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ALICE

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ÚTĚK OBRA

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Stefano Pietragalla, Natalia Adamska
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Stefano Pietragalla
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Réka Kiss
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Laura Moreno Gasulla, Natalia Adamska
Photo by: Anna Rasmussen
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