a Master's touch
Introduction
11 July 2012 is the 80th birthday of the greatest choreographer of the Netherlands, Hans van Manen. His significance for dance in general and for the Dutch National Ballet in particular should not be underestimated.
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New choreographic gems still flow from his ‘pen’ one after the other, and he still demonstrates all the steps himself in the rehearsal studio. Following a one-off gala just before his birthday on 4 July, the Dutch National Ballet’s 2012-2013 season will kick off with a special Van Manen programme, consisting of four highlights from his oeuvre.
After its premiere in 1971, the earliest work in the programme, Grosse Fuge, was declared ‘the most important European ballet of the decade’. ‘Brilliant and delightful’ and ‘a single piece of clenched energy’ wrote the papers about recent performances of this sultry double quartet, which is still danced all over the world and is now being performed again in The Amsterdam Music Theatre for the first time in a long while.
Four years after Grosse Fuge, Van Manen created Four Schumann Pieces for The Royal Ballet, in England. The elegant, melancholy choreography highlights the qualities of an exceptional male soloist (at the time, star dancer Anthony Dowell). The five couples surrounding him seem to give substance to his romantic musings and fantasies.
Two Pieces for HET was originally Three Pieces for HET, the ballet with which Van Manen made his successful comeback with the Dutch National Ballet in 1997, after an absence of ten years. The work in two parts – the first nervous and energetic, and the second subdued – now stands alone, and is one of the highlights of Van Manen’s highly acclaimed series of ‘ballets for two’.
And finally, as part of the Benjamin Britten year, the Dutch National Ballet is dancing Frank Bridge Variations, to the music of almost the same name by the English composer. Nine contrasting miniatures – from sharp to flowing, and from heated to melancholic – together form a unity that is as natural as it is astonishing. The ballet marked Van Manen’s return to the Dutch National Ballet as a resident choreographer in 2005, and is now being performed again for the first time since then.
Grosse Fuge
Music Ludwig von Beethoven
Four Schumann Pieces
Music Robert Schumann
Two Pieces for HET
Music Erkki-Sven Tüür, Arvo Pärt
Frank Bridge Variations
Music Benjamin Britten
Schedule
Pricing starts from € 15.00 to € 48.00
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Premium |
€ 48.00 | € 41.00* |
€ 48.00 | € 41.00* |
Rank 1 |
€ 43.00 | € 38.00* |
€ 43.00 | € 38.00* |
Rank 2 |
€ 34.00 | € 30.00* |
€ 34.00 | € 30.00* |
Rank 3 |
€ 26.00 | € 22.00* |
€ 26.00 | € 22.00* |
Rank 4 |
€ 18.00 | € 15.00* |
€ 18.00 | € 15.00* |
* with stadspas, CJP or below 16
Prices include € 2,- reservation costs
The duration of the show is approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes, including two intermissions
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fri 21 sep 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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sat 22 sep 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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wed 26 sep 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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thu 27 sep 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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sat 29 sep 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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sun 30 sep 2012 |
14.00 uur |
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tue 2 oct 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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thu 4 oct 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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fri 5 oct 2012 |
20.15 uur |
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