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Nutcracker Delights SPECIALLY CREATED FOR THIS FESTIVE SEASON DELIGHTS I A word from Tamara Rojo Welcome to Nutcracker Delights. I am And, finally, thank you to each of you joining us delighted that we are back on stage at the here for this festive celebration. We are so very This programme was designed for English London Coliseum and that we are once again happy to be able to share this space with you National Ballet’s planned season of Nutcracker able to share our work, live in performance, with again. I hope that you enjoy the performance. President Delights at the London Coliseum from you all. 17 December 2020 — 3 January 2021. Dame Beryl Grey DBE The extraordinary circumstances of 2020 have Chair As London moved into Tier 4 COVID-19 changed the way all of us work and live, and restrictions with the subsequent cancellation Sir Roger Carr I believe more strongly than ever in the power of all scheduled performances of Nutcracker Artistic Director of the arts to provide inspiration, shared Delights, the Company decided to film and Tamara Rojo CBE experience, hope, and solace. Tamara Rojo CBE share online, for free, a recording of this Artistic Director What a pleasure to mark our return to live specially adapted production as a gift to our Executive Director English National Ballet performance by continuing a Christmas fans at the close of our 70th Anniversary year. Patrick Harrison tradition we have held dear for 70 years. We have performed a version of Nutcracker Chief Operating Officer After a year that has been so difficult for so every year since the Company was founded, Grace Chan many, I am thrilled that we are able to bring and were determined to continue this much- Music Director some festive magic back to the stage. loved tradition. We hope you’ll enjoy seeing Gavin Sutherland I would like to thank our remarkable Company the performances of some of our incredible of dancers and wonderful orchestra, who ENB dancers and musicians. have resumed rehearsal and performance in challenging conditions after lockdown with NUTCRACKER DELIGHTS great enthusiasm and resilience. My heartfelt thanks also to our dedicated Artistic, Medical, Operational, and Technical teams, for the Choreography Wayne Eagling tremendous feat of facilitating our safe return Based on a concept by Toer van Schayk and Wayne Eagling to creating and performing work, and to every Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky member of the ENB team for their essential Reduced Orchestration Gavin Sutherland work behind the scenes. Thank you also to Design Peter Farmer our colleagues and friends at the London Coliseum, for working so collaboratively with Lighting David Richardson us to deliver this season. Nutcracker Delights adapted with kind permission of Wayne Eagling. We are deeply grateful for the ongoing support of our Patrons and Friends, whose generosity and belief in our work is invaluable. On behalf Nutcracker Delights is presented by English National Ballet Enterprises Limited. of all of us here at English National Ballet, I also offer our sincere thanks to HM Treasury, the Culture Secretary, DCMS, and Arts Council England, whose investment in the Company via the Culture Recovery Fund has allowed us to continue to work, create, and contribute to our sector’s recovery. Tamara Rojo © Karolina Kuras Front cover: Artists of English National Ballet as Snowflakes © Laurent Liotardo. Design by Dewynters Programme design: Gaëlle Löchner 3 A word from Martyn Wilson Art enriches, enlivens and inspires. At a time when the challenges of the everyday are keeping so many of us apart, we need art more than ever. With theatres closed and audiences unable to gather for much of this year, we wanted to find a way to share the creativity of the stage, so that art could still live and moments which have lifted spirits for generations, could still be shared. Bringing people together and offering them a chance to share in new experiences at this time is crucial and that’s why we at NatWest are delighted to be the English National Ballet’s first ever Principal Partner. Our aim is to work together to take ballet to a wider and more diverse audience and take its craft to new communities so that everyone can experience the joy of dance through ground-breaking performances. Great art should be available to all because it allows us to not just understand ourselves but to understand each other. It can benefit everyone and helps build a more inclusive society, something NatWest is determined to champion. I sincerely hope you enjoy tonight’s performance. Martyn Wilson Head of Sponsorship & Hospitality NatWest Group 4 5 70 YEARS OF NUTCRACKER NUTCRACKER DELIGHTS OVERVIEW English National Ballet has performed a version Tchaikovsky’s family; Deane’s gave it a An irresistible selection of ballet’s sweetest treats (and there have been many!) of Nutcracker modern setting complete with Barbie dolls every year since the Company was founded and Robocops; Hampson’s was a colourful Intro in 1950. The ballet has become a household cartoon fantasy with costume and set designs duction to the story — animated film name and is now seen in its many iterations by cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe. by thousands of people in the UK every year. Nutcracker doll and Clara pas de deux Nutcracker is arguably unique in its potential Nutcracker was not, however, frequently for both timelessness and reinvention — Snowflakes performed in its entirety in the UK until London a trait mirrored in English National Ballet’s Hot air balloon adventure Festival Ballet, as we were then known, staged seven-decade history as a company. Nutcracker, Clara and Drosselmeyer pas de trois it in full in October 1950 for the Company’s first London season at the Stoll Theatre. In the After a challenging 2020, more than 70 years Spanish dance after the Southsea audience were treated to 70 years that have followed, the Company has Russian dance performed a further eight different productions the Kingdom of Sweets, Nutcracker Delights Chinese dance in full of Nutcracker, including the much-loved offers a joyful ride through many of the ballet’s Wayne Eagling choreography of our current most beloved scenes. Long-time Nutcracker Flowers fans will instantly recognise the Sugar Plum repertoire. pas de deux, Snowflakes, Flowers, Spanish Sugar Plum Fairy and Prince pas de deux Nutcracker Delights is a special adaptation and Russian dances, and more. Let our Coda for 2020: it comprises a sparkling selection dancers and musicians transport you to the of divertissements from Eagling’s festive glittering Land of Snow and the vibrant Puppet Finale favourite, all set to Tchaikovsky’s sublime Theatre. We are delighted to be able to share score, in a new orchestration by Gavin this magical world with you again. Sutherland. Fittingly for our 70th anniversary year, it is, in some ways, a return to our beginnings: the Company’s first official performance in August 1950 at the Kings Theatre in Southsea concluded with a performance of Nutcracker’s final act – theKingdom of Sweets! Our star and founder Alicia Markova was known for her portrayal of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Along with co-Founder Anton Dolin, and with Grace Cone and Nicholas Beriozoff, she then created a new, complete staging of Nutcracker ‘after Lev Ivanov’, which premiered in London in October of that year. English National Ballet’s subsequent Nutcrackers were choreographed by David Lichine (1957); Jack Carter with André Howard, Vassilie Trunoff and others (1965); Ronald Hynd (1976); Peter Schaufuss (1986); Ben Stevenson (1991); Derek Deane (1997); and Christopher Hampson (2002). We first performed Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker in 2010. Schaufuss’s Erina Takahashi as Clara and Skyler Martin as the Nutcracker Rina Kanehara as Clara/Sugar Plum Fairy and Jeffrey Cirio as Nephew/ production reframed the story as a study of in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker in 2019 © Laurent Liotardo Prince in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker in 2018 © Laurent Liotardo 6 7 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR CREATIVES Tamara Rojo CBE Wayne Eagling Peter Farmer Choreography Designer Tamara Rojo was appointed Artistic Director of Tamara has been repeatedly recognised for Birthplace Birthplace English National Ballet in 2012. She combines her artistic excellence. Her awards include: Montreal, Canada Luton, UK (1941–2017) this role with her dancing career, performing the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Best as Lead Principal with the Company. New Dance Production; Spain’s three highest Training Previous affiliations Honours, The Prince of Asturias Award, the Patricia Ramsey The Kirov Ballet, Tamara trained in Madrid at the Victor Ullate Gold Medal of Fine Arts and Encomienda de School of Dance Arts, Vienna State Ballet, School. She won a Gold Medal at the Paris Número de Isabel la Católica; the Benois de la California Royal Ballet The Australian Ballet, International Dance Competition and a Special Danse Award; Critics’ Circle National Dance School Hong Kong Ballet, Jury Award unanimously given by a judging Award; Barclay’s Outstanding Achievement Birmingham Royal Ballet, The Royal Ballet, Previous companies panel led by Natalia Makarova, Vladimir Vasiliev in Dance Award; Positano Dance Award; Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne, Berlin and Rome The Royal Ballet 1969–1991; Dutch National and Galina Samsova, who asked her to join Leonide Massine Premio al Valore; the Italian Opera Houses, London Contemporary Dance Ballet, Artistic Director 1991–2003; Scottish Ballet. Critic’s Award; and from the City of Madrid, Theatre, Rambert Dance Theatre and London English National Ballet, Artistic Director both the International Medal of the Arts City Ballet. 2005–2012 Within six months of joining English National and the Interpretation Award. Created work Ballet, Tamara was promoted to Principal, English National Ballet Designs for the Company included Night and went on to dance the full range of the She is a member of the Board of the Creative Created Resolution (2008), nominated for Best Shadow, Coppélia, Cinderella, Bourée Company’s principal roles.
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