Wayne McGregor - Steve Reich / Massimiliano Volpini - Marjan Nečak DYAD 1929 / Light through the fingers 80 min

DYAD 1929 / Light through the fingers

Creative team - DYAD 1929

Concept, Direction and Choreography

Wayne McGregor

Music

Steve Reich (Double Sextet) Uz dozvolu Boosey / Hawkes Publishers Limited.

Set Design

Wayne McGregor & Lucy Carter

Costume Design

Moritz Junge

Lighting Design

Lucy Carter

Staged by

Davide di Pretoro

Principal Coaching

Antoine Vereecken

Design Associate

Catherine Smith

Lighting Associate

John-Paul Percox

Costume Assistant to Design Associate

Mia Rejc Prajninger

Ballet Masters

Milka Bartolović, Mihaela Devald Roksandić

Head of Music

Ljudmila Šumarova

Music Accompanists

Ljudmila Šumarova, Teo Visintin

Stage Manager

Ana Vnučec

Comissioned for the Australian Ballet.

Dyad 1929 was first performed by The Australian Ballet at the State Theatre, Melbourne, Australia on 21 August 2009.

Creative team - Light through the Fingers

Choreography and Concept

Massimiliano Volpini

Music

Marjan Nečak

Set and Costume design

Erika Carretta

Light design

Milan Kovačević

Video author

Massimiliano Volpini

Costume design assitant

Mia Rejc Prajninger

Ballet masters

Iva Višak, Pavla Pećušak

Head of Music

Ljudmila Šumarova

Répétiteur

Teo Visintin

Stage manager

Ana Vnučec

ENSEMBLE - DYAD 1929

First cast

Adam Harris, Anamarija Marković, Andrea Podda, Atina Tanović, Giovanni Messeri, Guilherme Gameiro Alves, Mutsumi Matsuhisa, Natalia Kosovac, Saya Ikegami, Takuya Sumitomo, Valentina Štrok, Yuho Yoshioka

Second cast

Arnau Velazquez Rodriguez, Balint Rauscher, Cristiana Rotolo, Elizabeth Anderson, Helena Troha, Hinako Shinzaki, Lucija Radić Palinko, Mario Diligente, Mattia Baccon, Miruna Miciu, Pavel Savin, Takahiro Tamagawa

Understudies

Agnese Stancanelli, Anna Letizia Joly, Asuka Maruo, Diana Montes Mota, Helena Troha, Justin Mihai Popa, Leda Šeparović, Makeely Georgia Foster, Mattia Baccon, Raphael Trioli, Seth Bromley Clark, Simon Yoshida, Taiguara Goulart

Ensemble - Light through the fingers

A woman

Natalia Kosovac / Rieka Suzuki Sumitomo

A man

Pavel Savin / Takuya Sumitomo

Shadows

Lucija Radić Palinko, Atina Tanović, Dora Blaić, Ozana Mirković Blokar, Lada Rora Taiguara Goulart, Mattia Baccon, Raphael Trioli, Vid Vugrinec, Mario Diligente, Yuho Yoshioka, Arnau Velazquez Rodriguez (Estrella Cebrino Torres, Dora Kovač, Marta Sironić, Leda Šeparović, Paulina Žanetić, Samuele Berbenni, Giovanni Messeri)

Premiere

15.03.2024

Double bill of two ballet artists Wayne McGregor and Massimiliano Volpini will be premiered in the new season, uniting two choreographers of different artistic expressions. Wayne McGregor is the author of Dyad 1929 that relates to the famous ballet company Ballet Russes, their artistic leader and patron Serge Diaghilev and their contribution to art in a wider context. Ballets Russes that was active between 1909 and 1929 marked the first three decades of the 20th century and introduced a revolution in the comprehension of ballet. Although this is not a narrative ballet, the movements, sets and music by Steve Reich contain traces of the style and spirit of Ballet Russes that has been inspiring artists all over the world for decades.

Massimiliano Volpini, Italian choreographer and director of the Ballet of the CNT in Zagreb, in his work titled Primordium will, through contemporary dance language, present primordial human actions and instinctive reactions to various life situations that are embedded into our daily life in which we encounter artificial intelligence and one entirely new world. A question arises whether we can restore a balance between our fundamental human nature and the new social development, respectively, the new evolution that awaits us. The music for this ballet will be composed by the Macedonian composer Marjan Nečak.

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