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A Company That Boasts the Best Dance-Actors in the World’ Dance Europe production sponsors ‘A star Company’ Sunday Express ‘A Company that boasts the best dance-actors in the world’ Dance Europe world première david nixon’s beauty & t h e b e a s t TV Media Partner Tour programme Leeds 2011 Photo Jonathan Taylor Take your business to the ballet Located in the heart of West Yorkshire and the cultural hub of Leeds, Northern Ballet’s new award-winning home offers conference, performance, event and exhibition space over 6 floors in a stunning glass-fronted building. Our city centre location is easily accessed by rail and road, with parking available nearby. We offer: • Superb conference facilities • Free WiFi throughout • Latest AV technology and presentation facilities with expert technical support • Team building days and energiser sessions • In-house catering • Special rates available for charity organisations For a tour of the building or information on rates and availability contact Shaun Daniels, Operations Manager on 0113 220 8000 or email [email protected] or visit northernballet.com 02 beauty & t h e b e a s t Martha Leebolt as Beauty and Ashley Dixon as the Beast Photo Jason Tozer. 03 The international dance magazine is now available in a digital page turning format as well as in the traditional printed paper version. Back issues and subscriptions at www.danceeurope.net Martha Leebolt and Tobias Batley in David Nixon’s Cleopatra 04 Photo: E. Kauldhar/Dance Europe Welcome It is with great excitement that I welcome our home audience to the world première of our new Beauty & the Beast this holiday season. It has been an exciting year for the Company with two world premières after an overly long hiatus without new work. Cleopatra, which premièred in February, received wonderful support from audiences in Leeds and now our new telling of a timeless fairytale for the whole family arrives just in time for Christmas. Beauty & the Beast is a new addition to our holiday repertoire, which includes A Christmas Carol, Peter Pan and The Nutcracker. I wanted to find a way of telling this story that was new and magical without losing its charm and its Photo Richard Moran important message. I chose Duncan Hayler to design the sets as he has an incredible imagination and sense of fantasy, as I am thrilled that Ballet Master Daniel De Andrade has demonstrated by his sets for our production of A Midsummer been awarded a dance fellowship on the Clore Leadership Night’s Dream. I wanted to involve Julie Anderson – one of our programme. This is great recognition of his talent and main costume makers – more closely in the design process, great recognition of our Company. I am also pleased that which she agreed to, bringing her cleverness and creativity Tobias Batley has been nominated for the second time as to the project. As is explained on page 14, we decided with Outstanding Male Performance (Classical) in the Critics’ Circle both the sets and the costumes, not to be limited by a Dance Awards. period but to be led by the story and characters and to be as imaginative as possible. I asked Tim Mitchell once again During these challenging times for all, we are very to bring his brilliant lighting to the production. Finally, John appreciative of your continued support, through attending Longstaff has orchestrated some challenging music within performances and the many other ways you can and do our compilation of mainly French composers for our small but support us. You may have noted that we are currently trying brilliant orchestra. to ensure that we can continue to perform the ballets we love and keep our full complement of dancers through our Our new building at Quarry Hill, which has just won a NationalSponsor a Dancer campaign. Please help us keep our dancers Lottery Award in the category of Best Arts Project, continues by donating in any way you can. Nothing is too small and to offer us new possibilities. In June we held our first details can be found on the postcard in the programme. choreographic workshop collaboration with Phoenix Dance Theatre and we will perform the first mixed bill in our studio Once more thank you, have a great holiday season and may theatre in February. This is an opportunity to see great dance we wish you health and good tidings for the New Year. in a very intimate setting. David Nixon OBE December 2011 Northern Ballet Royal Patron HRH the Earl of Wessex KG GCVO 05 Martha Leebolt as Beauty Photo Jason Tozer. 06 07 08 Creative team Duncan Hayler has worked with: Rudolf Demon (Sheffield Crucible);The Three Nureyev, David Pountney, David Nixon, Musketeers (Rose Theatre); The Cherry Nicola Raab, David Freeman, Gotz Orchard (Birmingham Rep); Dirty Friedrich, Craig Revel Horwood, Kay Dancing (West End & International Kuntze, Ansgar Weigner, Waut Koeken, productions); Master Class, Tell Me on Steven Edwards, Emmanuelle Bastet a Sunday, The History Boys (Tours); and Henry Akina. Filumena, Becky Shaw, The Knot of the Heart (Almeida). Duncan has designed numerous world premières from composers ranging International productions include: The David Nixon OBE from H. Gorecki (Warsaw Opera) to Secret Garden (Edinburgh/Toronto); Choreography, Direction, Isidora Zebeljan (Bregenz Festival) to Sleeping Beauty (New York/Barbican/ Costume Design. See page 27 the recent internationally acclaimed Young Vic); Henry IV Parts I & II world première of William Ward Murta’s (Washington Shakespeare); Hamlet musical The Birds of Alfred Hitchcock, (Japan/Sadler’s Wells); The Play What I Theater Bielefeld. Wrote (Broadway/West End). After David Nixon’s A Midsummer Tim also works extensively for the Night’s Dream this is his second design Royal Shakespeare Company and is an work for Northern Ballet. associate at Chichester Festival Theatre, where he has lit numerous productions His most recent work includes the including Sir Trevor Nunn’s Cyrano De musical Chess for Theater Bielefeld and Bergerac. Lucia di Lammermoor for State Theater Bern (première 28 Jan 2012). Duncan Hayler Set Design Child soloist Glyndebourne Opera The Cunning Little Vixen, Rattle/Miller 1977. Member of The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain. Degree in Theatre Set and Costume Design, Wimbledon School of Art. Winner Thames TV Design Bursary. Engagements include amongst others: State Opera Berlin, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Wielki Opera Warsaw, State Opera Prague, State Theatre Tim Mitchell Munich, Polish State Opera, Deutsche Lighting Design Opera Berlin and “The Ring” tour to Tokyo, Yokohama, Washington DC Tim has previously lit Cleopatra, and London. Krakow Opera, Vienna Hamlet and Dracula for Northern Ballet; Chamber Opera, Berlin Chamber other dance and opera credits include Opera, Musikwerkstatt Vienna, productions for Sadler’s Wells, Royal Friedrichstadtpalast Berlin, Vienna Opera House, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Volksoper, VBW Raimund Theatre Mariinsky Theatre and Welsh National Vienna (musical Romeo und Julia), Opera. BEMUS Festival Belgrade, Opera North, Recent theatre includes: Crazy For Theater Gera and Altenburg, Nantes You, Singin’ In The Rain, Rosencrantz Opera, State Opera Luxembourg, and Guildenstern are Dead, Lend Me a Bregenz Festival, Opera Sao Carlos Tenor, Yes Prime Minister (West End); Lisbon, Garsington Opera, Northern Earthquakes in London (Headlong Ballet (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Theatre); Smash (Menier); Racing State Theater Bielefeld. 09 Production Credits Wardrobe Supervisor Kim Brassley In-house Making Team Carley Marsh Paula Grosvernor Leonie Willett Assisted by Mikhaila Pye Jessica Wood Freya Crowley-Bennett Julie Anderson John Longstaff Lorna Clayton Costume Design Assistant / Music Arranger Costume Production Work Placement Students, Born Lancashire. Huddersfield University Julie trained at Loughborough College Education Girton College, Cambridge; Natalie Lawson of Art and Design and Wimbledon Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Karen Sellers College of Art and Design. Companies/Organisations Kiel Opera Jessica Bull House, Germany (conductor and Dyeing & Painting For 25 years Julie ran a successful rehearsal pianist); Northern Ballet Kim Brassley bridal shop while also working (conductor and rehearsal pianist); freelance on ballet, film, theatre and Wigs / Make-up supervisor Sheffield Symphony Orchestra (artistic opera. For the past two years she has Helen Russell director); Leeds College of Music (opera concentrated solely on her career in Wigs made by conductor), English National Ballet costume work with Northern Ballet Cath Newton (guest conductor The Nutcracker and and Northern School of Contemporary Goblin Masks and Headwear Giselle). Dance. Helen Russell Previous Work Romeo & Juliet, Swan Assisted by Previous film work includes Spielberg’s Lake, Giselle, Don Quixote, Carmen, Jessica Wood Back to the Future, Elizabeth R, Ken Great Expectations, Madame Butterfly, Russell’s Rainbow, Disney’s Jungle I Got Rhythm, Beauty and the Beast, A Pointe shoes made by FREED of Book. TV includes Fat Friends, My Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Traviata, London and The Suffolk Pointe Shoe Mother’s an Alien, Emmerdale and The Three Musketeers, The Nutcracker, Company Limited. The Body Farm. Opera work includes Cleopatra for Northern Ballet. Other Production Manager Cameron Mackintosh’s Carmen at ballet scores and arrangements include Andy Waddington Earl’s Court, Showboat, The Merry Dorian, La Sylphide, Eugene Onegin, CAD Drawing Widow and Carmen for Opera North. Hansel and Gretel (chamber versions), Steve Wilkins Julie’s work on dance includes Michael The Coronation of Poppaea. Set Construction
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