by FAB Admin | Apr 7, 2021 | Australian Ballet, Ballet, Dress Rehearsals
New York Dialects Final Dress Rehearsal | Monday 5 April | Cast List
SERENADE
Amber Scott Ako Kondo Nicola Curry
Ty King-Wall Jarryd Madden
Yuumi Yamada Corey Herbert Imogen Chapman Jill Ogai
Artists of The Australian Ballet
WATERMARK
Shaun Andrews
Nathan Brook
Daniel Bryne
Imogen Chapman
Timothy Coleman
Adam Elmes
Rohan Furnell
Thomas Gannon
Benjamin Garrett
Drew Hedditch
Alain Juelg
Brodie James
Callum Linnane
Luke Marchant
Coco Mathieson
George-Murray Nightingale
Jill Ogai
Lucien Xu
THE FOUR TEMPERAMENTS
Theme
Jacqueline Clark and Luke Marchant
Ingrid Gow and Joseph Romancewicz
Robyn Hendricks and Adam Bull
First Variation: Melancholic
Chengwu Guo
Yuumi Yamada Aya Watanabe
Jasmin Durham Lisa Craig Sophie Morgan Evie Ferris
Second Variation: Sanguinic
Benedicte Bemet and Brett Chynoweth
Lilla Harvery Lilly Maskery Karina Arimura Montana Rubin
Third Variation: Phlegmatic
Callum Linnane
Larissa Kiyoto-Ward Belle Urwin Katherine Sonnekus Sara Andrlon
Fourth Variation: Choleric
Amy Harris
With artists of The Australian Ballet
by FAB Admin | Mar 10, 2021 | Australian Ballet, Ballet, Dress Rehearsals, FAB Events
With New York Dialects now on sale here are 5 reasons why you should be buying tickets to The Australian Ballet’s 2021 return to the Sydney Opera House.
#1 – First performance back in Sydney
New York Dialects will be the Ballet’s first season in Sydney in over a year and a half! The last time The Australian Ballet was in town was December 2019 with perennial favourite The Nutcracker: The Story of Clara. After so long away from the city, it is going to be truly extraordinary to be watching the dancers take to the stage at the Opera House.
#2 – David Hallberg’s first program as Artist Director
As well as being the Company’s first performance back in Sydney, New York Dialects will also be the city’s first introduction to David Hallberg as Artistic Director.
This triple bill is his first program to be staged in Sydney and will set out his vision for the future of the Company. New York Dialects also features David Hallberg’s first commissioned work for The Australian Ballet – Pam Tanowitz’s New Work.
#3 – Pam Tanowitz
Pam Tanowitz is a critically acclaimed New York choreographer. She has created work for The Royal Ballet, New York City Ballet and American Ballet Theatre. Pam’s work is known for its abstract treatment of classical and contemporary movement ideas and structures as she encourages the viewer to see through to the heart of dance.
As David Hallberg says,‘she is one of our generation’s most intelligent creators: focused, insightful and original, just as Balachine was.’
#4 – The Company
After being off the stage for 11 months, New York Dialects is a program that will let the all the dancers of the Company shine. With the beauty and elegance of the female corps de ballet in Balanchine’s Serenade perfectly complimenting Tanowitz’s New Work which has been created specifically for the male dancers of the Company.
#5 – The music
New York Dialects is a program for music–lovers. The simplicity and purity of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C will open the program. While Paul Hindemith’s composition for The Four Temperaments perfectly explores the moods Balanchine wanted to affect, the Watermark concerto from Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw extends Tanowitz’s New Work.
Tickets for The Friends of The Australian Ballet New York Dialects Dress Rehearsal are on sale now
by FAB Admin | Mar 3, 2021
New York Dialects
The final dress rehearsal for New York Dialects, The Australian Ballet’s return to the stage in 2021.
This triple bill is David Hallberg’s first program as Artistic Director and features two revered classics from George Balanchine, the great game-changer of ballet, with a brand-new creation from a 21st-century innovator.
Serenade
Balanchine’s deeply rooted knowledge of Russian classicism grounded his inspired deviations from it, which galvanised modern dance. Serenade, considered one of the greatest works of the 20th century, was the first work he made on American dancers. The poetry of women in long ice-blue tutus moving in unison to Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings in C has a simplicity and purity still breathtaking today.
The Four Temperaments
If Serenade is Balanchine at his most lyrical, The Four Temperaments is the epitome of his stark neo-classical style: dancers in black and white leotards and tights performing stripped-back ballet steps skewed in unexpected directions. The score, which Balanchine commissioned from Paul Hindemith, was inspired by the medieval notion that four ‘humours’ govern personality type; it is both sparse and luscious as it explores each of those temperaments.
Watermark
Pam Tanowitz, from a contemporary dance background, has created work for major ballet companies, including New York City Ballet and The Royal Ballet, as well as for the hallowed modern-dance companies of Martha Graham and Paul Taylor. She will bring her vision for ensemble choreography and her fresh approach to gender roles to a work using the male dancers of The Australian Ballet. The Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw will extend her concerto Watermark as a partner to Tanowitz’s exciting creative vision.
Tickets on sale from Thursday 4 March. For more information, please click here
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