6 Premieres Of The Dance Open Festival, For Which You Need To Go To St. Petersburg

From 14 to 27 April, the 19th season of the International Dance Open Ballet Festival will take place in St. Petersburg. The program traditionally covers the most diverse areas of contemporary dance. We tell you about the main premieres, tickets for which should be taken care of in advance.

A dream in a summer night

When: April 14

Where: Alexandrinsky Theater

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The Dance Open opens with a Shakespearean phantasmagoria performed by the Dortmund Ballet. Choreographer Alexander Ekman is an absurdist, a lover of complex technical solutions and a connoisseur of entertainment. On his Swan Lake, the Norwegian opera stage was drowned in tons of water, and during the ballet The Game, sparkling plastic balls poured onto the audience. What to expect from the fabulous "Dream"? Flying beds, a giant altar, outlandish inhabitants of the underwater world and new choreography - due to the difficulties that, for obvious reasons, are associated with the tour of the production, Ekman always changes something in the performance.

Danza Estilizada

When: April 16

Where: Alexandrinsky Theater

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Passionate flamenco and bolero from the dancers of the Spanish National Ballet. Traditional dances will be shown in versions by three choreographers: teacher and choreographer Mario Maya, Antonio Najarro, who combines classical dance with jazz and choreographs Olympic performances for figure skaters, and artistic director of the National Ballet of Spain Ruben Olmo.

Miniatures of the Netherlands Dance Theater

When: April 18 and 19

Where: Alexandrinsky Theater

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The Netherlands Dance Theater (NDT) is a brand in the world of avant-garde choreography. The program of the evenings includes three miniatures: SH-BOOM! Paul Lightfoot and Sol Leon, created in 1994, Signing off to the music of Philip Glass's Violin Concerto and Wir sagen uns Dunkles by Marco Goecke, in which Schubert, Schnittke and Placebo meet.

Sleeping Beauty

When: April 22

Where: Alexandrinsky Theater

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An interpretation of a children's tale by the Belgian choreographer Jeroen Verbruggen, composed especially for the Leipzig Ballet. Since both versions of the text are taken as the basis, as presented by the Brothers Grimm and La belle au bois dormant Charles Perrault, get ready to see a psychedelic revelry of fantasy on the stage: here people-mattresses - inhabitants of an enchanted castle, and aggressive fairy-sorceresses, and the prince as from Japanese manga, and emphatically eroticized wolves - in these images Verbruggen materializes Aurora's long and confused dream.

Dutch National

When: April 24 and 25

Where: Alexandrinsky Theater

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The main aesthetes and "collectors" of talented dancers, the national ballet of the Netherlands, are bringing their program of the new season to St. Petersburg. The performances will be presented by geniuses of plotless choreography George Balanchine, Hans van Manen and William Forsyth. Observe carefully how movement and music illustrate each other in their work.

Lobby

When: April 26

Where: State Theater of Musical Comedy

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The Tie Break team from Lyon prepared the burlesque Lobby - a mixture of street acrobatics, jazz musicals, satirical pantomime and circus shows. The troupe was one of the first to prove that street dance is worthy of the academic stage, and now the best theaters in the world are ready to host shows, on which the stage turns into a hotel lobby.