Nasjonalballetten's Master Evening

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Nasjonalballetten's Master Evening

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- music on pointe Three works, three expressions, one master evening Nasjonalballetten comes to us this spring with three central works from its repertoire: Swan Lake Act 2, A Bólero and Diamonds - sweeping, magnificent ballet music played live by TSO. This will be a full-evening performance packed with glittering stage pictures, powerful modern dance and the most iconic moments in the history of ballet. The audience will experience three works spanning more than a hundred years: from the elegant classical heritage of Swan Lake, via Samantha Lynch's pulsating contemporary expression, to Balanchine's brilliant neoclassicism. Swan Lake's most iconic act The evening begins white and beautiful with Act 2 of Swan Lake, to Tchaikovsky's unique music. The second act is the swan act itself - the most iconic part of the ballet of all. The version you will see was created by Anna-Marie Holmes after Petipa and Ivanov's original choreography from 1895. Here the beauty of classical ballet is expressed in its purest, most timeless form. Fierce Ravel Samantha Lynch is a soloist with Nasjonalballetten - and also a sought-after choreographer. In recent years, several of the world's leading ballet companies have commissioned works from her. For the tour we bring out her first work created for the Opera's main stage: A Boléro, set to Ravel's famous piece from 1928, in which the same musical motif is repeated and repeated - fiercer and more powerful each time. Audiences and critics loved A Boléro after its premiere in 2021. This is what ballet of our time can look like! Sparkling on pointe Can you make a ballet about jewels? The master choreographer George Balanchine did just that in the three-part ballet Jewels. Now Nasjonalballetten dances the final part, Diamonds, where the expression, colours and choice of music are inspired by diamonds. Movement and music are two sides of the same coin, Balanchine believed. Here the dancing is to large parts of Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 3 in D major. Programme: Pjotr Tsjajkovskij / Swan Lake, Act 2 Maurice Ravel / A Boléro Pjotr Tsjajkovskij / Symphony No. 3 in D major (Jewels: Diamonds)