Daisy Buchanan: Anastasia Matvienko
Jay Gatsby: Denis Matvienko
Tom Buchanan: Maxim Zyuzin
Myrtle Wilson: Daria Pavlenko
Nick Carraway: Alexander Sergeyev
George Wilson: Sergei Sidorsky (Ukrainian National Opera)
Jordan Baker: Ekaterina Kalchenko (Odessa National Opera and Ballet Theatre)
Meyer Wolfsheim: Clifford Williams (Complexions Contemporary Ballet)
World premiere: 28 October 2014, Kiev (Ukraine)
Running time 2 hours
The performance has one interval
“The dance movements crafted by Dwight Rhoden are utterly enchanting thanks to the justification for and the beauty of each gesture, even in the eyes of those who just yesterday considered Marius Petipa’s Giselle a choreographic ideal. It forces the dancers to have a thorough knowledge of the possibilities of their each and every muscle and use them to the max...”
L’Officiel
“The first thing that surprises us in The Great Gatsby is the European quality of the ‘scene’. Brothers Igor and Alexander Stekolenko have produced a series of projections on a screen at the back of the stage in which the image comments on an event, argues with it and debunks it. Costume designer Dmitry Paradizov opted not to adorn the ‘age of jazz’ in garish colours, preferring black and white graphics (against the background of which a claret-coloured dress looks just like an explosion). The restraint in the colour palette and the furious tempo of the performance are ideally suited for one another: this ballet – in line with the plot of the novel – is a recollection somewhat effaced by the passage of time, yet it is also a memory about life lived at hellish speeds...”
Gazeta.ru
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