Alors on danse… !
Choreography Gil Roman
Music John Zorn, Citypercussion, Bob Dylan
Dancers:
Solo
Jasmine Cammarota
Primo ensemble
Solène Burel, Jasmine Cammarota, Min Kyung Lee, Chiara Posca, Clara Boitet, Antoine Le Moal, Vito Pansini, Masayoshi Onuki, Hideo Kishimoto, Kwinten Guilliams
Pas de quatre
Elisabet Ros, Valerija Frank, Dorian Browne, Jeronimas Krivickas
Pas de deux
Min Kyung Lee, Masayoshi Onuki
Pas de quatre
Solène Burel, Kateryna Chebykina, Dorian Browne, Oscar Frame
Pas de deux
Jasmine Cammarota, Antoine Le Moal
Pas de six
Bianca Stoicheciu, Clara Boitet, Chiara Posca, Hideo Kishimoto, Angelo Perfido, Daniel Aguado Ramsay
Pas de deux
Kwinten Guilliams, Masayoshi Onuki
Pas de trois
Mari Ohashi, Hideo Kishimoto, Cyprien Bouvier
Final
Compagnia
Liebe und Tod
Choreography Maurice Béjart
Music Gustav Mahler
Dancers
Kathleen Thielhelm, Oscar Eduardo Chacón
7 danses grecques
Choreography Maurice Béjart
Music Mikis Theodorakis
Dancers:
Introduction
Compagnia
Pas de deux
Hideo Kishimoto, Angelo Perfido
Ensemble female
Compagnia femminile
Ensemble male
Compagnia maschile
Pas de deux
Chiara Posca, Kwinten Guilliams, Floriane Bigeon, Denovane Victoire
Pas de deux with six men
Solène Burel, Oscar Frame, Hideo Kishimoto, Angelo Perfido, Konosuke Takeoka, Denovane Victoire, Cyprien Bouvier, Liam Morris
Theme and variations, Solo
Alessandro Cavallo
Pas de cinq
Solène Burel, Valerija Frank, Kateryna Chebykina, Chiara Posca, Min Kyung Lee
Final
Compagnia
Costumes Henri Davila
LightingDominique Roman
The performance of the Béjart Ballet Lausanne, in Nervi on its only Italian date with this programme, will see the ballet company perform three choreographies.
Alors on danse… !, by Gil Roman, with music by John Zorn, Citypercussion and Bob Dylan was first performed at the Lausanne Opera House on 11 February 2022. Roman’s work, dedicated to the dancer Patrick Dupond, aims to create a choreographic sequence inspired by classical ballet that celebrates the pure pleasure of dance in a light atmosphere. This is followed by Liebe und Tod, composed of two pas de deux by Maurice Béjart from the early 2000s, to music from Gustav Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Liebe und Tod brings together a choreography created earlier, on the Lid Wo die schönen Trompeten blasen, and a second choreography dedicated to Gil Roman on the Lid Der Tamboursg’sell. The programme ends with 7 danses grecques, created by Maurice Béjart in 1983 to music by Mikis Theodorakis and inspired by Greek folklore. Béjart’s research is oriented towards a direct and sincere expression of the Greek popular spirit.
Since its inception in 1987, the Béjart Ballet Lausanne has been a reference point in the dance world. Since Maurice Béjart’s death in 2007, the company has been maintaining its artistic excellence. Maurice Béjart always wanted to open up the world of ballet to a wider audience. Animated by the same spirit, the BBL dancers perform all over the world. The Béjart Ballet Lausanne is one of the very few companies capable of filling such immense spaces as the NHK Hall in Tokyo, the Kremlin State Palace in Moscow, the Herodes Atticus Odeon in Athens, the Palais des congrès in Paris, the Forest National in Brussels or the Patinoire in Malley-Lausanne.
Since 2007, under its artistic direction, the Ballet Béjart de Lausanne has maintained and developed a vast repertoire, at the heart of which remains the work of Maurice Béjart, with emblematic choreographies such as Le Sacre du Printemps, Boléro, The Ninth Symphony o Ballet for Life. Choreographers such as Alonzo King, Tony Fabre, Christophe Garcia, Giorgio Madia, Yuka Oishi or Julio Arozarena have contributed to the creative development of the Béjart Ballet. The Company remains faithful to its vocation: to preserve the work of Maurice Béjart while remaining a space for creation.
Photo credits: Béjart Ballet Lausanne – Gregory Batardon, Vito Lorusso, Stéphan Renaud
