On 30 December at the new stage of the Mariinsky Theatre there will be the first ballet premiere of the season – Symphony in Three Movements to music by Stravinsky with choreography by Radu Poklitaru.
Radu Poklitaru, who choreographed one of the most vivid ballet projects of the early 2000s, the ballet Romeo and Juliet (2003) and the recent premiere of Hamlet (2014) at the Bolshoi Theatre, founder of the Kiev Modern Ballet Theatre, choreographer of the opening and closing ceremonies of the Sochi Olympic Games and a jury member of TV dance shows, is staging a ballet for the first time at the Mariinsky Theatre. His Symphony in Three Movements to music by Stravinsky has been created especially for dancers of the Mariinsky Ballet.
The first and most famous choreographic version of Stravinsky’s score Symphony in Three Movements was created in 1972 by the master of plot-less symphonic dance, George Balanchine. Radu Poklitaru offers a different reading of Stravinsky’s music. “This production represents my thoughts about the price a man must pay for the right to be an individual,” the choreographer says and stresses that the imagery of his opus is to a great extent conditioned by stories of the composer about Symphony in Three Movements. Rejecting a programme for his work, written in 1945, Stravinsky nevertheless wrote that “each episode in the symphony was linked in his imagination with a specific impression of war.”
The sets and costumes of the new production have been designed by Anna Matison, known to Mariinsky Theatre audiences from last season’s premieres – she was the author of the libretto and the designer of the ballets Bambi to music by Golovin and In the Jungle to music by Lokshin as well as being stage director, production designer and costume designer of Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Golden Cockerel.
The lead roles in the production are being rehearsed by Nadezhda Gonchar, Svetlana Ivanova, Alexandra Iosifidi, Daria Pavlenko, Tatiana Tkachenko, Irina Tolchilshchikova, Svetlana Tychina, Yekaterina Chebykina, Alexander Sergeyev and Yuri Smekalov.
The premiere will be conducted by Valery Gergiev.
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