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Alonzo King LINES Ballet Aterballetto (IT) B.dANCE (TW) Ballet de l’Opéra (US) national du Rhin (FR) Pieces on tour: Pieces on tour: Pieces on tour: Pieces on tour: • Sutra • Don Giovanni • Floating Flowers • Swan Lake • Common Ground • Shechter / Kratz / Inger • Rage • Maria de Buenos Aires • Arctic piece • Dreamers • Chaplin • Creation 2019 with Jason • Sleeping Beauties Moran and Charles Lloyd © Gregory Batardon © Thierry du Bois © Helge Hansen © Pauline Le Goff

Ballet du Grand Théâtre BJM - Les Ballets Jazz Carte Blanche (NO) Compagnie Jean- de Genève (CH) de Montréal (CA) Claude Gallotta (FR) Pieces on tour: Piece on tour: Pieces on tour: Pieces on tour: • Wahada • Dance me - Léonard Cohen • Soufflette • My Ladies Rock • Fallen • Echo Flux • L’Homme à tête de chou • Minimal Maximal • Nororoca • Le Jour se rêve • Carmina Burana • Comme un trio • Une autre passion • The Nutcracker © Pippa Samaya © Franck Thibault © Olivier Houeix © M. Logvinov

Dancenorth IT Dansa (ES) Malandain Ballet Biarritz Yacobson Ballet (RU) Kyle Page (AU) (FR)

Pieces on tour: Pieces on tour: Pieces on tour: Pieces on tour: • Dust • The Prom • Marie-Antoinette • Don Quixote • Attractor • Kaash • Cinderella • The Queen of Spades • Songs of a Wayfarer • Rêverie Romantique / • Sleeping Beauty • Whim Sirènes • Tchaikovsky Gala • Pastoral

Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse (FR) Associated artists

• Jann Gallois on tour with the piece Samsara

Director / Choreographer Alonzo King 12 dancers

Combining a classical technique with personal intervention, Alonzo King lifts his performers to a nonstop dance becoming into a staggering articulation of bodies. ALONZO KING LINES BALLET

Alonzo King moved to San Francisco and, in 1982, founded LINES Ballet which is one of the most prestigious and exciting companies in North Season highlights America. Highly recognized in the United States and abroad, he is working regularly with opera, television and cinema. At the same time, he is invited LINES Ballet’s season will begin in October to work with the largest companies around the world. William Forsythe with the fall creation’s premiere in San stated that “Alonzo King is one of the few, true Ballet Masters of our times.”Admirer of Balanchine, he creates bridges between tradition and Francisco. For this new collaboration, modernity and develops an inventive, sensual and vibrant dance with Alonzo King has chosen to invite once again impeccable classically trained dancers. two great names from the Californian jazz scene: tenor saxophonist Charles Lloyd and Through his collaborations with artists from different disciplines and pianist Jason Moran. Both had previously cultures, he is proposing a work always new and fed by cultural diversity. As worked alongside the choreographer for a visionary choreographer, Alonzo King is renowned for his incredible ability the creation of Sand in 2016. This new to grip the audience with a real humanity and a deep sense of freedom. collaboration will also mark the return of internationally renowned visual artist Jim Campbell. Following the example of his “Alonzo King belongs to a unique vein: a twisted, swirling and asymmetrical previous work for Constellation in 2012, classical dance — on pointes for women — spiraling the body to the the artist will create a luminous installation fingertips.” for this new piece. Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde The company will then be on an international tour before presenting a second creation in “Alonzo King is a rare bird in the current American dance landscape. His April 2020 as part of the spring program. company LINES Ballet dances to a full house everywhere. It is easy to understand why: exceptional dancers, purity of movement, musicality of forms...” More information Philippe Noisette, Los Échos www.linesballet.org

Company tour calendar

October 2019 February 2020 01-06: San Francisco (US) – Autumn creation (Premiere) 18, 19: Wiesbaden (DE) – Händel / Common Ground 22: Lugano (CH) – Händel / Common Ground November 2019 27: Pordenone (IT) – Händel / Common Ground 12: Newport News (US) – Figures of Speech 29: Ravenna (IT) – Händel / Common Ground 15, 16: Durham (US) – Händel / Common Ground 20, 21: Echirolles (FR) – Händel / Common Ground March 2020 24: Morges (CH) – Händel / Common Ground 01: Ravenna (IT) – Händel / Common Ground 26, 27: Montpellier (FR) – Händel / Common Ground 03: Aix-en-Provence (FR) – Händel / Common Ground 30: Albi (FR) – Händel / Common Ground 06, 07: Créteil (FR) – Händel / Common Ground 10: Le Havre (FR) – Händel / Common Ground December 2019 12: Cholet (FR) – Händel / Common Ground 03: Fulda (DE) – Händel / Common Ground 06: Saint-Etienne (FR) – Händel / Common Ground April 2020 10-19: San Francisco (US) – Spring creation (Premiere) January 2020 16: Davie (US) – Figures of Speech May 2020 18: Cutler Bay (US) – Händel / Common Ground 06: Madison (US) – Figures of Speech 23: Richmond (US) – Figures of Speech 09: Overland Park (US) – Figures of Speech 25: Fairfax (US) – Figures of Speech ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

SUTRA

Choreography Alonzo King Music composed and performed Zakir Hussain and Sabir Khan VIDEO Created in 2018 – Duration 74 min

Zakir Hussain is a classical tabla virtuoso from India widely considered a founding member of the contemporary world music movement. His complex rhythmic systems naturally meets King’s choreography and celebrate the long-standing

Hardy continuity between transcendental Eastern thinking and Western ballet’s classical forms and techniques. For over twenty years these two masters of rhythm, vibration Chris and transformation have been pushing the boundaries of creative expression © together.

“A performance that would seem to define what the world should be aspiring to create: perfect harmony, warm encounters among all human and earthly species, and a feeling that it should never come to an end.” Alvina Ruprecht, Capital Critics’ Circle

Common Ground

Choreography Alonzo King VIDEO Music Arrangement Kronos Quartet Created in 2018 – Duration 45 min

Kronos Quartet and Alonzo King LINES Ballet, two of the most influent San Francisco’s cultural ambassadors, visionaries in their respective fields, celebrate together the union of music and dance in a piece reflecting their innovative art. Alonzo King has teamed up with the famous quartet to create this new piece, true Hardy hymn to the city of San Francisco and to everything that makes its beauty. In the

Chris piece, the musicians explore the string quartet as an ever-changing conversation © and accompany the dancers.

“This is a dance that shows the company’s ability to shift interpretive gears on a dime, as well as their impeccable musicality and the beauty of their neatly assorted physicalities. All that and gorgeous ballet-framed yet all-daring technique gives the real answer to what Common Ground at its best entails.” Janice Berman, San Francisco Classical Voice

Arctic Piece

Choreography Alonzo King Music Trey Spruance Set Design Robert Rosenwasser, Jamie Lyons and Pierre Roy-Camille Upcoming creation in 2020

Addressing the theme of global warming, the degradation of the Arctic continent and populations threatened by sea-level rise, Alonzo King’s upcoming creation brings together many artists. The scenography, based on photos and videos shot on the Arctic continent by Robert Rosenwasser and Jamie Lyons, is completed by the paintings and sketches of Pierre Roy-Camille - contemporary painter. Trey Spruance’s musical creation, with whom the company has already collaborated for Common Ground, integrates traditional and indigenous songs and music from peoples threatened by the rising waters around the world. A sensitive piece that echoes the deep meaning of humanity and freedom that is characteristic of Alonzo King’s work.

Le Trait d’Union Other piece on tour PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 Fall Creation – Choreography Alonzo King, music Jason Moran, Charles Lloyd [email protected] www.ltddanse.com Aterballetto

Fondazione Nazionale della Danza Managing Director Gigi Cristoforetti Company Director Sveva Berti 16 dancers

Founded in 1977 as Compagnia di Balletto dei Teatri dell’Emilia - Romagna and directed by Vittorio Biagi, the company has been known since 1979 as Aterballetto. Composed of 16 soloist dancers who are able to grasp in depth the most diverse dance styles, Aterballetto has gained wide recognition in Italy and on the international scene thanks to Season highlights the high quality of its interpreters. It is now recognized as the leading contemporary dance company in Italy and the first permanent ballet- The Italian company Aterballetto’s season producing organization apart from Opera House companies. will start on a high note, with the premiere of With the arrival of Gigi Cristoforetti as Managing Director in 2017, Dreamers in September 2019 as part of the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza / Aterballetto is opening up the Festival Oriente Occidente in Rovereto, to choreographic productions from diverse artistic universes and Italy. It will be the opportunity to discover renewing its artistic mission. By creating a dialogue with the visual arts, this triple bill composed of the pieces music, theatre and education, Aterballetto initiates multidisciplinary cloud|materia by German choreographer collaborative projects. This way, it deepens its relationship with the music world and opens up to new audiences (young people, people with Philippe Kratz, Traces by young Japanese disabilities or in precarious situations) and infuses its creations and choreographer Rihoko Sato as well as productions with a unique sensitivity. the piece Secus initially created by Ohad Naharin for the Batsheva Dance Company in 2005. “When the curtain falls, the pleasure of having rediscovered in France a beautiful company composed of young dancers animated by a beautiful The company will then be on European tour energy keeps going.” and will end its season in June 2020 with Chroniquesdedanse.com the creation of the piece Don Giovanni by choreographer Johan Inger as part of “A new and imaginative dance that brings together the enthusiasts and the general public. It’s the miracle of Aterballetto.” the Ravenna Festival. A simultaneously Sara Cerrato, La Provincia traditional and contemporary piece on Christoph Willibald von Gluck’s and “Well deserved applause for the company, a mosaic of heterogeneous Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s scores. individualities.” Valeria Crippa, Corriere della Sera More information www.aterballetto.it Company tour calendar

September 2019 February 2020 06: Rovereto (IT) – Dreamers (Premiere) 01: Tilburg (NL) – Wolf / “O” / Bliss 29: Bari (IT) – Dreamers OctobER 2019 11: Reggio Emilia (IT) – Lost in / “O” / La Stella Nascosta MarCH 2020 29: Mantova (IT) – La Stella Nascosta 04: Morges (CH) – Wolf / “O” / Bliss 12: Scandiano (IT) – Lost in / “O” / Rain Dogs NovembER 2019 20: Cesena (IT) – Dreamers 08: Pesaro (IT) –Wolf / Secus 26-29: Prato (IT) – Tempesta 10: Ancona (IT) – Dreamers 30: Catania (IT) – “O” APril 2020 02: Como (IT) – La Stella Nascosta DEcembER 2019 16-19: Venezia (IT) –Tempesta 01: Catania (IT) – “O” 25: Leverkusen (DE) – Dreamers 04, 05: Chambéry (FR) – Dreamers MaY 2020 JanUARY 2020 13: Draguignan (FR) – Bach Project 11: Reggio Emilia (IT) – Dreamers 29, 30: Den Haag (NL) – Wolf / “O” / Bliss June 2020 20, 21: Ravenna (IT) – Don Giovanni (Premiere) ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

Don Juan Choreography Johan Inger Music Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Creation in June 2020

For this new collaboration with the company Aterballetto, Johan Inger grabs Don Juan’s paradigmatic myth, a masterpiece that is both traditional and contemporary. It is this subtle paradox that the choreographer wishes to explore. The neutrality of the sets will also allow psychoanalytical reading of this resolutely tragic character, while the © Nadir Bonazzi costumes carry within them the fleeting evocation of the past. Johan Inger will highlight the perpetual interplay between the self and the other, which affects our attitude in our environment and in the society. The choreographer’s creativity will be at the service of the recurring themes of his works: loss, change and its consequences.

Triple Bill

Wolf “O” Bliss Choreography and music Choreography Philippe Kratz Choreography Johan Inger Hofesh Shechter Music Mark Pritchard and The Music Keith Jarrett created in 2017 - Duration 30 min Field created in 2016 - Duration 27 min created in 2018 - Duration 12 min The visceral energy of the Johan Inger has chosen to choreographer and his Addressing the theme place the music of Keith music flows through the of eternity, the duo “O” Jarrett’s The Köln Concert, dancers in this wild work. presents two human beings considered legendary in The overall composition or two robots celebrating the jazz history, at the very © Nikolay Krusser leads us in a totally original state of transcendence and core of his creation. From and animal universe. emotional fulfilment, both this encounter between the moving to the never-ending choreographer, the dancers beat of their unstoppable and this emblematic music hearts. emerges an ode to joy and dance.

Dreamers #1

Bliss Traces Secus Choreography Johan Inger Choreography and music Rihoko Sato Choreography Ohad Naharin Music Keith Jarrett Created in 2019 - Duration 20 min Music Chari Chari, Kid 606 + Rayon, created in 2016 - Duration 27 min AGF, Chronomad, Fennesz, Kaho Naa Rihoko Sato, young Japanese Pyar Hai, Seefeel, The Beach Boys Johan Inger has chosen to place the choreographer, offers with Created in 2019 - Duration 30 min music of Keith Jarrett’s The Köln Aterballetto her first creation for a Concert, considered legendary in jazz group, after a remarkable career The master of the movement Gaga history, at the very core of his creation. as a dancer notably alongside offers us an adventurously eclectic From this encounter between the Saburo Teshigawara. With Traces, musical collage used as a fitting choreographer, the dancers and this she explores this feeling of being a backdrop for the audaciously quirky emblematic music emerges an ode to stranger in our own reality, like a ghost choreography. With Secus, it is a true joy and dance. In 2016, the piece was who leaves no trace, and our need human alphabet which through joy, awarded the honorary title of “Best Italian to try to live in the present moment vulnerability, fear, innocence, confusion Production” at the Danza&Danza Award. despite everything. and anger, weaves a harmonic and dynamic canvas that oscillates between delicacy and exaggeration.

Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 [email protected] www.ltddanse.com B.Dance

Choreographer Po-Cheng Tsai 8 dancers © Olivier Houeix

Founded in 2014 and led by 31-year-old Taiwanese choreographer Po- Cheng Tsai, B.DANCE is now one of the emerging contemporary dance companies on the international scene. In five seasons, B.DANCE has already performed in Germany, the Czech Republic, Spain, Israel, Denmark, Italy, Switzerland, China, Hong Kong, the United Kingdom and France, where the company recently distinguished itself at the Avignon Festival. Several times awarded in international choreographic competitions, Po- Season highlights Cheng Tsai has also choreographed for renowned dance companies such as Introdans, Tanz Luzerner Theatre, Gauthier Dance, Cloud Gate 2, Bern Tanzcompagnie and recently La Veronal. The upcoming season marks the entry of the company B.DANCE into Le Trait The Taiwanese choreographer develops a unique choreographic language d’Union repertoire. Accustomed to and style that combines traditional Asian movements, martial arts and international tours, the Taiwanese contemporary dance. He pushes the boundaries to achieve an aesthetic company made a remarkable appearance that incorporates oriental mysticism and fantasy into theatrical, physical in Europe this summer: first with Rage at and moving plays that are accessible and inspiring to all audiences. Tsai the Hivernales as part of the Festival was awarded Choreographer of the Year 2018 by the German magazine d’Avignon, then with Floating Flowers at Tanz. In 2019, B.DANCE received the Mervyn Stutter “Spirit of the Fringe” the Dance Base of Edinburgh as part of Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. the Festival Fringe. In December 2019, the company will “This is a great discovery of this Avignon festival, a real success of the Hivernales. present a new piece entitled INNERMOST. We will have to follow closely, with his independent company B.Dance, this This piece, premiered in Taiwan, is an Taiwanese choreographer.” adaptation for 8 dancers of an eponymous Jean Couturier, Danser Canal Historique duet created by Po-Cheng Tsai in 2016. The music will be an original creation by “It is a remarkable experience to watch dance at this level in the intimate Ming-Chieh Li who had previously worked space of Dance Base’s Studio 1, where every small movement can be fully on Floating Flowers. appreciated, and where the dancers really have nowhere to hide. Luckily, these dancers have no need to hide: if there are imperfections in their dancing, they More information must be rare and scattered.” www.bdance.com.tw Robert Dow, The Wee Review “We are experiencing the dance of the world, which has spanned the entire history of mankind. The dancers’ involvement is fascinating, on a stretched rope from the first to the last second. And when the show stops, when the storm is over, we start breathing again.” Laurence Houot, Franceinfo

European tour calendar

July 2019 10-20: Avignon (FR) (Les Hivernales - CDCN d’Avignon) – Rage August 2019 2-4, 6-11, 13-18, 20-25: Edinburgh (UK) (Festival Fringe) – Floating Flowers October 2019 02, 03: Nantes (FR) – Floating Flowers 05: Alençon (FR) – Floating Flowers 09: Madrid (ES) – Rage / Melting Neon May / June 2020 Germany - Luxembourg Tour (TBC) ON TOUR SEASON 20 21 © Ren Haur Liu © Chang-Chih Chen

Floating Flowers RAGE

Choreography Po-Cheng Tsai Choreography Po-Cheng Tsai Set & lightning Otto Chang Lightning Otto Chang Music composition Ming-Chieh Li Musics Ezio Bosso, Emmit Fenn, Keaton Henson, Yoga Lin Visual artists Po-Chih Chang and Yon-Yun Deng Created in 2018 - Duration 45 min Set design assistant Pei-Chun Pan Created in 2015 - Duration 60 min Freely inspired by a Japanese psychological thriller by Yoshida Shuichi, adapted into a film by director Lee Floating Flowers is inspired by a traditional Taiwanese Sang-il in 2016, Po-Cheng Tsai’s piece Rage explores religious celebration that takes place at the Ghost through dance the depths of the human soul. The Festival, one of the most beautiful and popular Buddhist choreographer uses images from the novel and film ceremonies in the country. Floating lanterns placed as part of his long-standing reflection on the effects on water are meant to worship deities, to send away of every single major social event. In a society where bad luck and bring happiness. They are also intended feelings of loneliness, sadness and frustration are to convey wishes and pay tribute to the deceased. In omnipresent, people are led into an inner struggle Po-Cheng Tsai’s childhood, it was tradition for his father against themselves. In a society craving for empathy, to take him to the festival to write his wishes on the seemingly indifferent to sufferings, Tsai wonders the lanterns, to set them adrift and to watch them being possibility of breaking this cycle of chaos, liberating carried away by the flow of the river. Since his father’s this unexpressed rage in order to find back an inner passing, Tsai lost faith in the ritual of his childhood, but peace that has long been lost. However, this feeling was inspired to create Floating Flowers to honour his is not against society, it’s a rage towards our inability father and free himself from memories that haunted to react. On a stage immersed in an almost darkness, him. He thus proposes a refreshing and optimistic under a minimalist lighting, he makes the bodies piece where the dancers, wrapped in vaporous muslin, move, sometimes in great complexity, sometimes as seem to float gracefully above the water. if they were alienated, to express the indifference and antagonisms inherent in human relations. “Magnificent dancers, wrapped in steamy muslin, images and “The fluidity and grace of these dancers are exceptional. It’s lights reminiscent of mysterious landscapes, this is Floating not even a question of talent at that point anymore. They do Flowers, a Taiwanese choreography made of pure beauty.” not dance, they inhabit the movement even through their Agnès Izrine, La Terrasse eyes... It is the kind of stunning beauty that grabs your heart.”

“Floating Flowers: the choreographic upsurge of a young Mélina Hoffman, l’info tout court Taiwanese in Avignon... A show full of rare energy served by impressive dancers. The choreography is by Po-Cheng “An elegant and structured piece...” Tsai, a young 29-year-old Taiwanese choreographer who is Parisart particularly inspired.” Laurence Houot, Culturebox

Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME The piece Rage will be completed by a second one in order to compose a Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 program for a complete evening. [email protected] www.ltddanse.com Ballet de l’opéra national du Rhin

Centre Chorégraphique National Artistic director Bruno Bouché 32 dancers

Founded in 1972, the Ballet de l’Opéra National du Rhin is a company whose expertise and quality are unanimously acclaimed. It is one of the rare French companies to defend a rich and eclectic repertoire from baroque to modern and from classical to contemporary styles, so that every type of dance can be best appreciated. It is supported by a dance troupe of 32 permanent dancers from all over the world, Season highlights who, in addition to their solid academic training, are able to consider and explore in depth a broad variety of styles. The company tours in Beautiful tours await the company this season, France and abroad and is strongly committed to the choreographic including a series of performances at the Royal development of Strasbourg, Mulhouse and Colmar and the entire region Opera House in London in November 2019 in order to educate the audience to open up to all styles and languages. and at the Cannes Dance Festival in December 2019. Since September 2017, Bruno Bouché took the helm of the company with the firm intention of anchoring it as a European Ballet in the 21st The season will also be marked by numerous century. In the same vein as the work initiated by Bertrand d’At, his new creations. Bruno Bouché will continue audacious artistic vision leads the ballet towards contemporary and his “Music & Dance cycle” and in November demanding pieces, offering an aesthetic and a dramaturgy of great 2019 will create the program Dancing rigour. Schostakovitch, Tchaikovsky ... in collaboration with choreographers Mattia Russo, Antonio de Rosa and Hélène Blackburn. “Virtuosity — especially in the speed of execution — is present within the In February 2020, the ballet will collaborate dancers of Ballet du Rhin.” with choreographer Gil Harush to present Ariane Dollfus, Dancing Yours, Virginia inspired by the personality and “[...] its dancers give the image of a company inhabited by a new energy work of the English novelist and essayist Virginia and perfect gestures that elevate the company to the highest level. And Woolf. what a level!” This season will be concluded in June/July by the Jacqueline Thuilleux, ConcertClassic.com #2 focus of “Spectres d’Europe” with a creation “It can’t be said enough: diversity is a guarantee of richness. The Ballet by Bruno Bouché, Encore and the entrance to de l’Opéra national du Rhin is its divine proof.” the repertoire of Enemy in the figure by Williams Isabelle Glorifet, L’Alsace Forsythe. More information Company tour calendar www.operanationaldurhin.eu

September 2019 January 2020 03, 04: Strasbourg (FR) – La Gran Partita 01, 02: Rennes (FR) – Maria de Buenos Aires 25, 26: Strasbourg (FR) – Prélude ! 28: Mulhouse (FR) – Prélude ! february 2020 28: Fribourg (CH) – Maria de Buenos Aires 06-09: Mulhouse (FR) – Yours, Virginia (Premiere) 18-21: Strasbourg (FR) – Yours, Virginia october 2019 04: Compiègne (FR) – Maria de Buenos Aires March 2020 25, 26: Mulhouse (FR) – Dancing Schostakovitch, Tchaikovsky… (Pre- 21-27: Strasbourg (FR) – Until the lions - echoes of the Mahabharata miere) (Premiere) 27, 28: Mulhouse (FR) – Le Joueur de flûte (Premiere) November 2019 03: Colmar (FR) – Dancing Schostakovitch, Tchaikovsky… April 2020 09-13: Strasbourg (FR) – Dancing Schostakovitch, Tchaikovsky… 02, 03: Nancy (FR) – Yours, Virginia 21-24: Londres (UK) (Royal Opera House) – Sleeping Beauties 05, 07: Mulhouse (FR) – Until the lions - echoes of the Mahabharata 23, 24: Reims (FR) – Maria de Buenos Aires may 2020 26: Tarbes (FR) – Maria de Buenos Aires 13-17: Lyon (FR) (Maison de la danse de Lyon)– Chaplin December 2019 June 2020 04, 05: Angoulême (FR) – Swan Lake 20, 21: Mulhouse (FR) – Spectres d’Europe #2 (Premiere) 07, 08: Limoges (FR) – Swan Lake 25-27: Strasbourg (FR) – Le Joueur de flûte 10: Voiron (FR) – Swan Lake 14: Cannes (FR) – Swan Lake July 2020 30, 31: Rennes (FR) – Maria de Buenos Aires 02-05: Strasbourg (FR) – Spectres d’Europe #2 ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

Swan Lake

Choreography Radhouane El Meddeb VIDEO Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Created in 2019 - Duration 90 min

Radhouane El Meddeb proposes his own vision of Swan Lake for which he decides to fully use the academic language; and to address it to the contemporary world. Its version succinctly restores the quintessence of the account of Odette and Siegfried’s thwarted loves, and does not break down into acts or paintings separated from each other. All the performers are constantly present on the set and the characters are drawn from their specific features. But all are sucked into the intoxicated rise of metamorphosis. © Agathe Poupeney © Agathe “El Meddeb pays tribute to the original work [...] The white tutu gives way to skirts fluttering on legs without tights. [...] To dance this, the artists throw away their ballet slippers. They jump, lace undone, from academic to contemporary style to let explode, barefoot, the tug-of-war that overwhelms them. Beautiful.” Emmanuelle Bouchez, Télérama

CHAPLIN

Choreography Mario Schröder Musics Charlie Chaplin, John Adams, Ruggero Leoncavallo, Alfred VIDEO Schnittke, Kurt Schwertsik, Peteris Vasks, Colin Matthews, Johannes Brahms, Hans Werner Henze, Charles Ives, Richard Wagner, Benjamin Britten, Samuel Barber Created in 2018 – Duration 90 min Mario Schröder has been fascinated by his idol Charlie Chaplin since childhood. Indeed, the London-born actor was the reason that Schröder began dancing: he remembers thinking how very dance-like Chaplin’s movements and gestures were. Schröder developed his ballet in chronological order – beginning with Charles’s early life. He

© Agathe Poupeney © Agathe depicts the striking and sad moments of his childhood. The choreographer then explores the duality between the private person that he was and the tramp he interpreted. The two characters merge as the ballet progresses until the private person is inseparable from the artist. During one hour and a half, Paul Zoller’s scenery combine to the choice of music provide the ideal framework for this Chaplin biography in dance to give the impression to the audiences that they are transported back to the days of early cinema at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Maria de Buenos Aires

Choreography Matias Tripodi Libretto Horacio Ferrer VIDEO Music Astor Piazzolla Created in 2019 – Duration 90 min

Composed in 1967 after Horacio Ferrer’s libretto, Maria de Buenos Aires is the only Astor Piazzolla’s opera. Passionate tango expert, the Argentinian choreographer Matias Tripodi restages this tango opera which had a profound impact on Argentinian culture and had promoted it throughout the world. Today, Matias Tripodi takes © Agathe Poupeney © Agathe up the choreographic challenge of placing tango on stage by rethinking its internal mechanisms, and leaving aside its clichés. In this restaging, musicians, actor and singers will accompany the dancers of the Ballet de l’Opéra national du Rhin on stage, in sixteen tableaux, unfolding the story of tango through an early 20th-century urban legend: Maria’s story, independent and free women who gives herself with no limit to the city, poetry, dance and men.

Le Trait d’Union Other piece on tour PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 Sleeping Beauties – Choreography, set design, costumes Hélène Blackburn, [email protected] musical creation Martin Tétreault www.ltddanse.com Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève

Director Philippe Cohen 22 dancers

Since its creation in 1962, Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève has been exploring various styles of dance from the 20th century. Today, under Philippe Cohen’s dynamic leadership, the company is following the same artistic direction invested in choreographic creation while keeping close the founding principles of dance.

The numerous rewriting of repertoire pieces by some of the most Season highlights exciting and breakthrough choreographers are part of its current prestige. Composed of 22 classically trained dancers, the company The Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève will is currently one of the leading dance companies on the international open its season from November 10th to scene. Its specificity lays within Philippe Cohen’s well-suited choices of the 17th, 2019 with the new production dancers and his artistic vision’s high standard, leading the company of Minimal Maximal. This program will and guest choreographers on a clearly defined path. be composed of choreographies by three dance references, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (Fall), Andonis Foniadakis (Paron) and Two pieces are created each year for its Genevan season. However, Ioannis Mandafounis (Fearful Symmetries). as a touring company, it is around the world that the company mostly In December 2019, the opera and ballet of performs its diverse programs. The Ballet received the “Grand prix de the Grand Théâtre will join forces to present la critique” in 2016 for Tristan and Isolde. the ballet opera Les Indes Galantes. For the last creation of the season in June 2020, Philippe Cohen offers to the young choreographer Jérémy Tran the “Philippe Cohen seems to have a taste for understated choreographic opportunity to work with the company modernists and for zanily but unobtrusively individual performers, all of thanks to the creation of Ce qu’il nous them exceptionally supple ballet-trained dancers. [...] May they soon return.” reste. Jérémy Tran’s cinematographic gaze Jennifer Dunning, The New York Times imagines a multiple, decompartmentalized piece in which moving bodies come to life “Without doubt one of the best European companies, which fits just as well with elaborate music, animated images in the neoclassical register as with the contemporary.” and tableaux vivants. An incursion into the Paris Capitale unconscious of its audience. More information www.gtg.ch

Company tour calendar

NovembER 2019 15, 16: Cagliari (IT) – Carmina Burana 10-17: Geneva (CH) – Minimal Maximal (Premiere) 20, 21: Ludwigsburg (DE) – Tristan & Isolde 26-28: Nîmes (FR) – Wahada DEcembeR 2019 13-29: Geneva (CH) – Les Indes Galantes (Premiere) MarCH 2020 03: Le Perreux-sur-Marne (FR) – Carmina Burana JanUARY 2020 19, 20: La Rochelle (FR) – Fall / Fallen 21, 22: Échirolles (FR) – Wahada 25: Modena (IT) – Tristan & Isolde 25: Bastia (FR) – Carmina Burana 27: Pavia (IT) – Wahada 28: Saint-Germain-en-Laye (FR) – Carmina Burana 30: Mons (BE) – Wahada APril 2020 29: Gijon (ES) – Romeo & Juliet FEBRUARY 2020 01: Neuilly-sur-Seine (FR) – Carmina Burana MaY 2020 04: Fulda (DE) – Fallen / Glory 01, 02: Bilbao (ES) – Romeo & Juliet 07: Montrouge (FR) – Carmina Burana JunE 2020 13: Sassari (IT) – Carmina Burana 06 - 14: Geneva (CH) – Ce qu’il nous reste (Premiere) ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

wahada

Choreography Abou Lagraa

Music Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart VIDEO Created in 2018 - Duration 60 min

The dancing of Abou Lagraa has within it a subtle mixture of classicism, urban energy and contemporary expressiveness. Supported majestically by the Mass in C minor, the choreographer develops here a dance balancing between classical and contemporary. This High Mass, inspired by love, by the encounter, exudes sensuality linked to desire and the possibility of meeting each other. Wahada is the promise of a mutual inhaling

“[...] the group moments mix perfectly with the music, knowing how to use the power of the score while not making the dance simply figurative, and knowing how to make it exist for itself and to charge it with intentions.” Amélie Bertrand, Danse avec la Plume

Fallen

Choreography Andrew Skeels

Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Robert Schumann VIDEO Created in 2018 – Duration 35 min

Andrew Skeels signs a new dreamlike program on the music of Tchaikovsky and Schumann, carefully selected to accompany the dancers. He plays with them on the notion of falling and above all questions their way of recovering from it. In the fear of falling lies the anguish of a mental and physical inbalance. For the scenography and costumes, the choreographer chose the Parisian fashion house “On aura tout vu,” which had left its mark on the audience by dressing The Nutcracker (choreography by Jeroen Verbruggen). © Gregory Batardon “Thanks to the classical training of the Grand Ballet de Genève’s dancers, the choreographer has been able to create dance images with ample and fluid movements, both gentle and delicate, while removing the sense of gravity. [...] Rather than simply following each tableau of this piece, Fallen’s key of understanding must be sought in Andrew Skeels’ ability to give us a set of images that can reproduce a unique and intense atmosphere that speaks to the audience’s souls.” Antonella Poli, Chroniques de Danse

Minimal Maximal Upcoming creation in November 2019

FEARFUL SYMMETRIES Paron Fall Choreography Ioannis Mandafounis Choreography Andonis Foniadakis Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui Music John Adams Music Philip Glass Music Arvo Pärt

For his first creation for the Ballet Andonis Foniadakis draws inspiration This piece is the first creation that Sidi du Grand Théâtre, the choreographer for his creation from Philip Glass’ first Larbi Cherkaoui had created for the wonders how to find the intimate violin concerto. Building upon the three- Flanders Ballet after being nominated within a group. In this search for movement structure of the piece, he as its director. Fall places the individual dialogue between the individual and works on the notions of group and in the cycles of nature. Here the the community, Ioannis relies on John individual. In his piece, the energy movements and interactions of the Adams’ work, whose tone of voice mixes generated by the group expands and dancers create the image of autumn the weight and bravura of a big band tightens, like a whirlwind that alternately leaves stirred in the wind. In this with the glittering, synthetic sheen of excludes and concentrates, engraving perpetual movement, it is the poetry techno pop and the facility and finesse emotion into the movement. of the bodies and the virtuosity of the of a symphony orchestra. performers that shines through.

Other pieces on tour Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME The Nutcracker– Choreography Jeroen Verbruggen Music P. I. Tchaikovsky Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 Une autre passion – Choreography Pontus Lidberg, Music J.S Bach [email protected] Carmina Burana – Choreography Claude Brumachon, Music Carl Orff www.ltddanse.com

BJM – LES BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTRÉAL

Artistic Director Louis Robitaille 14 dancers

Major player on the international dance landscape, BJM – Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal has been constantly growing with all the vitality and open- mindedness characterizing this company since its creation in 1972. Since Louis Robitaille’s appointment as artistic director in 1998, the company has opened itself up to more contemporary artistic currents and updated its artistic mission. Once immersed in modern jazz’s innovative spirit, they open up to classical, jazz and contemporary dance techniques as well as Season highlights other art fields as theater, circus, visual arts or modern music. The success encountered by the piece The artists are involved in the creation process. Resident choreographers Dance Me from the work of Léonard are invited to develop their own research with the company. While bringing Cohen is incontestable. Continuing their own dance culture without losing sight of creating a piece true to the its incredible international tours, this company’s spirit, they all contribute to developing a specific repertoire to program will be presented in September BJM. 2019 in Brazil, where the company had not performed for almost 10 years. Through his artistic direction, Louis Robitaille wants to pay tribute to the During the season, Dance Me will also be art of the movement, its infinite diversity and beauty, and the potential that programmed in several major American lies in the body to influence the human soul. It’s a matter of entertainment, cities and will be present on European not as an obstacle to think about our own nothingness, but rather like stages for more than 3 months. During something which will momentarily divert us from the essential things in life this tour, the BJM will perform a and then, allow us to reach them. remarkable series of shows in November 2019 at the Maison de la Danse in Lyon and at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées “BJM didn’t disappoint, delivering a solidly entertaining and impeccably in December 2019. danced program.” In May 2020, a two-week tour for the Steve Sucato, Dance Tabs very first time in Israel will constitute a strong symbol for this ballet tribute to “We rarely have the privilege to witness such a display of excellence. Les Leonard Cohen. Ballets Jazz de Montreal, credited to have some of the best dancers in the world, truly lived up to its reputation.” More Information M. P., Le Midi Libre www.bjmdanse.ca Company tour calendar

September 2019 26: Monthey (CH) – Dance Me Soul / O Balcao de Amor 01: Sao Paulo (BR) – Dance Me 28: Bonn (DE) – Dance Me 04: Curitiba (BR) – Dance Me 30: Gütersloh (DE) – Dance Me 22: Noisy-le-Grand (FR) – Dance Me 07, 08: Rio de Janeiro (BR) – Dance Me 24-26: Winterthur (CH) – Dance Me December 2019 24: Wiles-Barres (US) – Dance Me 28: Thonon-les-Bains (FR) –Casualties of 01: Gütersloh (DE) – Dance Me 26-28: Philadelphia (US) – Dance Me 05: Rueil-Malmaison (FR) – Dance Me Memory / Soul / O Balcao de Amor October 2019 07, 08: Sénart (FR) – Dance Me April 2020 02-05: Montreal (CA) – O Balcao de Amor / 10: Arcachon (FR) – Dance Me 01-03: Brest (FR) – Dance Me Soul / Casualties of Memory 16-18: Paris (FR) – Dance Me 05, 06: La Roche-sur-Yon (FR) – Dance Me 08: Sherbrooke (CA) – O Balcao de Amor / 21, 22: Ludwigshafen (DE) – Dance Me 16: Vicenza (IT) – Dance Me Soul / Casualties of Memory February 2020 18: Udine (IT) – Dance Me 12, 13: New York (US) – Dance Me (Extracts) 14, 15: Santa Monica (US) – Dance Me 21: Pavia (IT) – Dance Me 25, 26: Boston (US) – Dance Me 19: Kitchener (CA) – Dance Me 24: Murcia (ES) – Dance Me 21: Burlington (CA) – Dance Me 26: Sant Cugat (ES) – Dance Me November 2019 29: Alcobendas (ES) – Dance Me 02: Vitoria (ES) – Casualties of Memory / 23: Saint-Catharines (CA) – Dance Me Soul / O Balcao de Amor 25: Kingston (CA) – Dance Me May 2020 05-14: Lyon (FR) (Maison de la Danse) – 27: Mississauga (CA) – Dance Me 19-23: Hertzeliya (IL) – Dance Me Dance Me March 2020 25: Jerusalem (IL) – Dance Me 17: Avignon (FR) – Dance Me 13: Pamplona (ES) – Casualties of Memory / 26: Beer Sheva (IL) – Dance Me 19, 20: Alès (FR) – Dance Me Soul / O Balcao de Amor 27: Kiryat Haim (IL) – Dance Me 23: Vichy (FR) – Dance Me 15: Logroño (ES) – Casualties of Memory / 28: Ashdod (IL) – Dance Me ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

Dance Me Music of Léonard COHEN

Artistic direction Louis Robitaille Choreography Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa, Ihsan Rustem Dramaturgy and Stage Direction Eric Jean Music Direction Martin Léon Set and accessories Pierre-Étienne Locas Lighting design Cédric Delorme-Bouchard and Simon Beetschen Video design Hub Studio - Gonzalo Soldi, Thomas Payette and Jeremy Fassio Costume design Philippe Dubuc Costume production Anne-Marie Veevaete Created in 2017 - Duration 80 min

Dance Me is an exclusive creation inspired by the rich and profound work of the Montreal-based poet, artist and songwriter, Leonard Cohen.

Approved by Cohen during his lifetime, and under the artistic direction of Louis Robitaille and the strong, bold dramaturgy of Eric Jean, this riveting homage to the famed artist evokes the grand cycles of existence in five seasons, as described in deeply reflective Cohen’s music and poems.

The choreographic writing of this evening has been entrusted to three international choreographers with complementary hallmarks and personalities: Andonis Foniadakis, Annabelle Lopez Ochoa and Ihsan Rustem. Their powerful and profound choreographic world reflective of Cohen’s singular work is brought to life by 14 BJM performing artists.

Surrounded by a team of celebrated designers, Dance Me combines scenic, visual, musical, dramaturgical and choreographic writing to pay tribute to Montreal’s greatest ambassador. Dance, music, lighting, scenography and videography all come together in this unforgettable show, for which BJM has been granted exclusive dance rights for five years.

“Three international choreographers […] fourteen extraordinary dancers, an amazing stage production by Eric Jean beautifully illuminated, videos and thousands of spectacular special effects […] An inventive and sophisticated dramaturgy which creates a complex and altered piece, a feast for the eyes and a delight to listen.” Sophie Jama, Huffingtonpost

“The artistic performance proposed by fourteen artists from BJM is breathtaking. Regardless the scenes, individually, in couples or in groups, BJM’s dancers impress with their mastery of precise gesture, their strength and their harmony. The way their movements fill the whole space reveals an astonishing collaboration between different actors for the realization of this creative masterpiece.” Hortense Leclercq-Olhagaray, Lepolyscope © Photos Thierry du Bois - Cosmos Image

Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 [email protected] www.ltddanse.com CARTE BLANCHE

The Norwegian national company of contemporary dance Artistic Director Annabelle Bonnéry 14 dancers

Established in Bergen in 1989 and with its home base in Studio Bergen, the company tours and develops its artistic activities both in Norway and internationally throughout the year. The ensemble consists of 14 dancers of several nationalities, a company solidly supported by the high quality and creative openness of its dancers, who can rise to the challenge of interpreting different Season highlights aesthetics sustaining this way a wide repertoire. This reputation allows it to be an enviable partner to both renowned choreographers The company’s season will be punctuated and a new generation of talents. by many creations. The year 2020 will open up with the presentation of Nororoca in Under the new artistic direction of the French choreographer January, choreographed by Lia Rodrigues. Annabelle Bonnéry, the company commissions choreographers The dancers immersed themselves in the involved in social questions expressing themselves through dance choreographer’s environment in order to better understand her universe and offer and artists concerned about the encounter between different art us a piece tinged with the fury of life. fields. New creations are produced every season as the older ones It is then up to Carte Blanche dancer, are restaged. This is how the Norwegian national company creates Ole Martin Meland, to take the role of a an exciting and unique repertoire of high quality, underpinning the choreographer and present ØY in March. company’s goal to be an innovative forerunner, presenting and In collaboration with the Norwegian duo developing contemporary dance in Norway and abroad. Smerz, he takes a closer look at anti- productive laziness and disillusioned vandalism. In May, Frederick Gravel will create a new piece for the company to be presented at “The dance that offers us the company Carte Blanche is at the same the Bergen International Festival. Fréderick time delightful and astonishing.” Gravel challenges the structures of Janine Parker, Boston Globe choreographic art and integrates various elements related to rock and performance. In this creation, he will work with polyphonic “A company of excellence... Particularly impressive” movements and play with a creative world of Claudia La Rocco, The New York Times organized chaos. More information www.carteblanche.no

Company tour calendar

September 2019 07, 08: Sevilla (ES) – Soufflette 12-15: Oslo (NO) – Echo Flux March 2020 19: Sandnes (NO) – Echo Flux 06, 07: Bergen (NO) – ØY (Premiere) 21: Rotterdam (NL) – Know Hows 11-14: Oslo (NO) – Nororoca 25: Kristiansand (NO) – Echo Flux 18-21: Paris (FR) (Chaillot, Théâtre national de la Danse) – October 2019 Nororoca 18, 19: Trondheim (NO) – Echo Flux 24: Vitry-sur-Seine (FR) – Nororoca 25, 26: Bergen (NO) – Know Hows April 2020 November 2019 01: Dijon (FR) – Soufflette 18: Caen (FR) – Echo Flux 30: Tromsø (NO) – Nororoca (TBC) 20: Caen (FR) – Soufflette May 2020 January 2020 21-30: Bergen (NO) – Frederick Gravel’s creation (Premiere) 23-31: Bergen (NO) – Nororoca (Premiere) June 2020 February 2020 30: Amsterdam (NL) – Soufflette (TBC) 01: Bergen (NO) – Nororoca ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

SOUFFLETTE

Choreography and conception François Chaignaud

Music and arrangement Jostein Gundersen VIDEO Created in 2018 – Duration 60 min

Created in collaboration with costume designer Romain Brau and composer Jostein Gundersen from the Grieg Academy, Soufflette reunites dance and song on stage in a musical journey that breathes new life into medieval traditions. As an intoxicating midsummer party celebration full of life, dancers throw themselves

© Helge Hansen into rhythmic rituals and polyphonic songs, stumble, stand on their heads. Thanks to their voice, feet, body and dreams, dancers create their own folk made of songs, corporal percussions, ghosted dances, and never-ending mutations. Their bodies become holy flourished altars from an ageless cult.

Nororoca

Choreography Lia Rodrigues Choreography Assistant Amália Lima Upcoming creation in 2020 - Estimated time 60 min

In her home town of Rio de Janeiro, the award-winning Brazilian dance artist Lia Rodrigues is an active, cultural force. She is particularly active in the heart of the favela de Mare in which she founded the Centro de Artes da Maré - an artistic and cultural centre. Carte Blanche dancers met the choreographer and from this

© Helge Hansen cultural exchange came a mutual understanding that forms the basis for Nororoca. This creation is directly inspired by Rodrigues’ production Pororoca from 2009. The word “pororoca” stems from the Tupian word “poro’rog,’ which is a powerful tidal phenomenon that occurs where salt water meets fresh water at the mouth of the Amazon River.

ECHO FLUX This meeting between dance and music proposes to highlight how these two art forms can merge or extend towards each other and how the diffusion and processing of sounds create an echo in the public.

THE DEPARTED HEART PRIMAL Choreography Alban Richard Choreography Ayelen Parolin Music Sebastian Rivas Music Ezra

The dancers’ movements and breaths combine to the In Primal, the choreographer Ayelen Parolin collaborates sounds of ancient instruments create a stretched with the French beatboxer Ezra to return to the raw musical universe between tradition and modernity for essence of humanity gone for too long, forgotten, or the departed Heart. Choreographer Alban Richard denied. Dancers relive the primal and animal state of and composer Sebastian Rivas have been inspired by, mankind, forget the hierarchies in order to recover their among other things, the book Anatomy Melancholy by voices and senses atrophied by an excess of civilization, Robert Burton from 1621, the aesthetic of Vanitas, education and uniformalizing institutionalization. A way to decay and death to pursue the company’s five dancers reactivate the healing rituals and open oneself up to the as an invisible force. unknown.

“The two choreographies complement each other well, and both explore the physical language of human beings, the organic sphere and the conflict between the collective and individuality.” Julie Rongved Amundsen, Scenekunst

Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 [email protected] www.ltddanse.com COMPAGNIE JEAN-CLAUDE GALLOTTA

Director / Choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta Up to 12 dancers

Since the early 1980s, the choreographer Jean-Claude Gallotta has imposed himself as a pioneer of the so-called New French Dance and created with Mathilde Altaraz the Groupe Émile Dubois in Grenoble. Gallotta is at the origin of the first Centre Chorégraphique National, “National Choreographic Center,” of which he was the head of from 1984 to 2015. He invents a playful and energetic dance, with a rich and complex construction, allowing its dancers to show their talent of improvisation and Season highlights their quality of execution. His first main piece, in 1981, Ulysses, a ballet Blanc now emblematic, playing with the codes of classical dance, brought This season, the Jean-Claude Gallotta him international recognition. His repertoire is currently offering eighty company met a great success with the choreographies including major works some becoming references: Daphnis restage of L’Homme à tête de chou é Chloé, Hommage à Yves P, Mammame, Docteur Labus, Trois Générations, presented at the Printemps de Bourges The Rite of Spring, Cabbage Head Man, My Rock. Literature is often too for Festival in April 2019. the choreographer a source of inspiration with: Les Larmes de Marco Polo, In the fall of 2020, a new creation will Presque Don Quichotte, The Stranger, Comme un trio, based on Bonjour be added to the company’s repertoire Tristesse... in collaboration with musician Rodolphe Burger and visual artist Dominique Since 2015, he has been an associated author with the Théâtre du Rond Gonzalez-Foerster. With the piece le Jour Point, Paris. The Groupe Émile Dubois is hosted by MC 2: Grenoble. se rêve, Jean-Claude Gallotta will return to his characteristic movement, playful abstraction. “As a breath of fresh air, Gallotta’s dance gallops and grasps sensations always flying by quicker than itself.” His choreographic work will also be Rosita Boisseau, Le Monde celebrated in January 2020 at the Centre national de la danse where the first complete “The impulse of a dance in which pas de deux and ensembles succeed each other transcription of one of his most emblematic in a comforting vital pulsion. Revitalized for a large part, Gallotta’s group gives pieces, Ulysses, will be presented. everything, through their diversity of bodies and origins.” More Information Laurence Liban, L’Express www.gallotta-danse.com

Company tour calendar

September 2019 January 2020 08: Saarbrücken (DE) – My Ladies Rock 17-29: Paris (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 09: St Jean de Vedas (FR) – L’Homme à tête de 17: Les Sables-d’Olonne (FR) – My Rock chou 20: Sallanches (FR) – My Ladies Rock October 2019 14: Toulon (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 28: Seignosse (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 09: Saint-Martin-d’Hères (FR) – My Rock 17: Évreux (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 31: Périgueux (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 15: Vesoul (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 19: Sablé-sur-Sarthe (FR) – My Ladies Rock 19: Calais (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou April 2020 24: Noisy-le-Sec (FR) – My Ladies Rock 02: Oloron-Sainte-Marie (FR) – My Ladies Rock November 2019 25: Beynes (FR) – Comme un trio 04: Calais (FR) – Comme un trio 07: Martigues (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 30: Vevey (CH) – L’Homme à tête de chou 17: Sassari (IT) – My Ladies Rock December 2019 February 2020 18, 19: Cagliari (IT) – My Ladies Rock 01: Saint-Lô (FR) – My Ladies Rock 05, 06: La Rochelle (FR) – My Ladies Rock 23: Ajaccio (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 03, 04: Cherbourg (FR) – My Rock 11-14: Lyon (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 28: Lannion (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 06: Villejuif (FR) – My Ladies Rock 28: Worms (DE) – My Ladies Rock May 2020 06: Cherbourg (FR) – Comme un trio March 2020 06, 07: Caen (FR) – Comme un trio 07: Conflans (FR) – My Ladies Rock 01: Bonn (DE) – My Ladies Rock 26: Dunkerque (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou 10-12: Blagnac (FR) – My Ladies Rock 03: Esch-sur-Alzette (LU) – L’Homme à tête 17-19: Grenoble (FR) – L’Homme à tête de chou June 2020 de chou 02: Dinan (FR) – My Ladies Rock 06: Clermont-Ferrand (FR) – L’Homme à tête 03: Dinan (FR) – Comme un trio (excerpts) de chou ON TOUR SEASON 20 21 © Guy Delahaye © Nicolas Pianfetti

My LADIES ROCK Le Jour se rêve

Choreography Jean-Claude Gallotta Choreography Jean-Claude Gallotta Musics Wanda Jackson, Brenda Lee, Marianne Faithfull, Music Rodolphe Burger Siouxsie and the Banshees, Aretha Franklin, Nico, Lizzy Choreography Assistant Mathilde Altaraz Mercier Descloux, Laurie Anderson, Janis Joplin, Joan Dramaturgy Claude-Henri Buffard Baez, Nina Hagen, Betty Davis, Patti Smith, Tina Turner Visual Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster Created in 2017 – Duration 65 min Lighting Manuel Bernard 11 dancers Upcoming creation of autumn 2020 10 dancers If History is written by the victors, rock is no exception. In this case, it concerns men, holders of an ancestral For Le jour se rêve, Jean-Claude Gallotta met the power they struggle to share. As a result, in order to musician Rudolph Burger. Explorer of new sound kick down Rock’s doors, female pioneers had no choice scapes, his work combines rock to philosophy and but to dare and shatter the image they were restricted flirts with Beckett and Johnny Cash, Büchner and Lou to. Brenda Lee, Aretha Franklin, Janis Joplin, Patti Reed, to create the beautiful alchemy between the elite Smith and their heiresses, gave themselves the right and the popular. The choreographer invited as well to be who they want, capable of excess, with their own Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, the multifaceted plastic voice, their own bodies, their way of living, even playing artist, to intervene in this creation. She will explore the on genders. links between the arts, and put on lights and costumes Women in Rock have done much more than simply to the dancers, helping “clearing the awareness of the renew the stage, they shook western societies with present time.” rage and courage. My Ladies Rock narrates a rock less Composed of three “events” of 20 minutes each, exposed to glory than men’s, but as much fertile, if not interspersed with two solos of the choreographer, more thrilling as it is linked with the current fight for Le Jour se rêve aims to be the choreography of “the women’s rights which is far from being over. present without impatience.” C.-H.B. There is, and there will always be in the choreographies of Jean-Claude Gallotta deep sense, narration, “In a sensitive and enveloping way, the portrayals, acting or irony, all these elements rightly choreographer gives us an intimate narration measured to come disturbing the scene’s rhythmical of rock, whereas his dancers keep composing order. These breakaways will cross Le Jour se rêve. explosive and poetic tableaux in duets, trios This is where the singularities of Jean-Claude Gallotta’s and sextets. (...) we delightedly recover the work nest, at the root of a movement which he is the energy and elegant dance, and the delicate sole representative. and sensual dancing steps of Compagnie VIDEO Jean-Claude Gallotta.” C.-H.B. Delphine Baffour, La Terrasse

Other pieces on tour

Comme un Trio, from Françoise Sagan’s Bonjour Tristesse – Choreography Jean-Claude Gallotta, music Strigall L’Homme à tête de chou – Choreography Jean-Claude Gallotta, music Serge Le Trait d’Union Gainsbourg performed by Alain Bashung PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME My Rock – Choreography Jean-Claude Gallotta, music Elvis, The Rolling Stones, Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 Bob Dylan, The Who, The Velvet Underground and Lou Reed, Nick Drake, Iggy [email protected] Pop and the Stooges, The Clash, Leonard Cohen, Nirvana, Patti Smith and Wilson Pickett www.ltddanse.com Dancenorth - Kyle Page

Artistic director / Choreographer Kyle Page Associated Artistic Director Amber Haines Up to 16 dancers

With the artistic direction of choreographer Kyle Page and his partner Amber Haines, Dancenorth is part of the Australian dance landscape and significantly contributes to the sector by actively participating in the public’s sensitization on contemporary dance. Season highlights

Known as a major actor for the arts in the North Queensland region, After having presented its works in more the company empowers and supports artists by providing a creative than 35 festivals and venues in Australia hub for many artistic voices, and thus offers a moment of encounter and around the world, Dancenorth will and expression for many artistic voices such as choreographers, guest perform in June 2020 at the Théâtre collaborators, artists in residence and dancers. national de la Danse de Chaillot in Paris Dancenorth achieves a balance between a dynamic regional presence the piece Dust. and its commitment to create a captivating contemporary dance that Following the presentation of NOISE, travels around the world with creative, bold, and insightful collaborations. created in collaboration with the The artistic approach developed by Kyle Page and Amber Haines Townsville percussion community and embodies the notions of ethics, sharing and collective consciousness. presented in August 2019 in Townsville Their work gives a central place to the body/mind relationship, in order (AU), the company will begin its season to develop in equal parts technical virtuosity and the ability to think. with the creation of the piece Communal Table. This choreographic work by Kyle Page and Amber Haines will be presented from September 18th to the “Dancenorth has unleashed something new and profound in contemporary 21th, 2019 in Bisbane (AU). Communal dance.” Table highlights fundamental human David O’Brien, The Barefoot Review desires through a collective work of art and a co-created choreography for eight artists and 88 guests.

More information www.dancenorth.com.au ON TOUR SEASON 20 21 © Pippa Samaya © Gregory Lorenzutti

Dust Attractor

Choreography Kyle Page and Amber Haines Direction and Choreography Gideon Obarzanek and Lucy Set Design Liminal Spaces/Elvio Brianese and Peta Guerin Heffernan Music Senwaya - Rully Shabara and Wukir Suryadi Lightning Niklas Pajanti Lighting creation Ben Bosco Shaw Musical composition Jessica Moss Lighting operator Sam Doyle Sound design Alisdair Macindoe Audio system creation Nick Roux Costumes Harriet Oxley Sound operator Jonny Duncan Dramaturgy Gideon Obarzanek Costumes Harriet Oxley Duration 70 min Created in 2017 - Duration 60 min

Dust is a collaboration between Dancenorth’s Artistic Indonesian music duo Senyawa and Melbourne’s Director Kyle Page and Associate Artistic Director choreographers Lucy Guerin and Gideon Obarzanek join Amber Haines. For this creation, they choose the forces with two of Australia’s leading dance companies, Canadian violinist Jessica Moss and the award-winning Lucy Guerin Inc and Dancenorth to create Attractor. Liminal Spaces which create for them an audacious Together, they take us on a unique music and dance architecturally designed set. ritual. The piece takes a deep and daring dive into how, Senyawa reinterprets the Javanese tradition of through the lottery of birth, we inherit the architecture entering trance through dance and music as a powerful, of restriction and opportunity. In Dust, the dancers secular, present-day ritual. As the performance unfolds, attempt to agitate and illuminate the engineering of their Senyawa’s unique fusion of handmade electrified own existence. Kyle Page and Amber Haines examine stringed instruments with operatic melodies and heavy personal, social, cultural and political inheritance and metal vocals slowly builds to a euphoric pitch while the the way we question and respond to that which has dancers are propelled into wild physical abandonment come before us. How can we scrutinize the past in and ecstatic release, creating a visceral, empathic order to shape the future? experience for the audience. In this piece, selected members of the audience will be called on stage to joining the dancers, dissolving the “Dust is an exquisite work; a powerful demarcation between dancer and non-dancer, audience piece of contemporary dance that flirts and performer, professional and the amateur in a cross- with potentially heavy-handed imagery cultural, shared ritual. but never succumbs to the obvious or the banal. Cohesive and fluid, it integrates

movement and design beautifully.” VIDEO “Attending to this performance is an Richard Watts, ArtsHub electrifying experience. This collaboration between Australian and international artists is incredibly harmonious and rich.” Jordan Beth Vincent, The Age VIDEO

Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 [email protected] www.ltddanse.com IT DANSA

Artistic Director Catherine Allard 18 dancers

IT Dansa is a young dance company within the Theatre Institute’s postgraduate dance course in Barcelona and composed of 18 young and highly talented dancers. Selected during auditions, they receive a two-year grant where they work with some of the best teachers and choreographers and perform throughout a vast network of theatres and festivals. Season highlights This training program is an exceptional springboard allowing for With a renewed workforce of half, as it does most of these young dancers to directly join the ranks of professional every year, IT Dansa is preparing for an dance companies. So far, IT Dansa has premiered over thirty pieces eventful season. This will be marked by its from emerging talents and from renowned choreographers such as first presence in Bucharest, Romania, as Jirí Kylián, Ohad Naharin, Nacho Duato, Rui Horta, Alexander Ekman, part of the JTI Encounter Festival. and Ramon Oller, to name but a few. Then, it will be on a European tour from After a career in dance at the Nederlands Dans Theater, the Nacho January 2020 especially with the creations Duato’s long-time muse, Catherine Allard directs the company since presented during the Greek Festival 2018 in its foundation in 1997. She focuses on developing the personality Barcelona: The Prom, by Lorena Nogal and of the dancers, mastering the movement and giving an alternative Kaash, by Akram Khan. During this tour, the dimension to their body in space. company will participate for the first time in During their first European tour in 2015, IT Dansa had a resounding the Swiss dance festival STEPS. success among audiences and professionals. In February 2020, IT Dansa will be at the Teatre Auditori Sant Cugat in Barcelona, as part of the educational cycle of the “Petit “Fun, exciting, diversified. IT Dansa embodies in every gesture, every step Liceu.’ On this occasion, the company will what Picasso called ‘the Andalusian eye.” Pure eroticism.” have the opportunity to perform the duet Richard Peter, Schaumburger Zeitung A Picture of you falling by choreographer “The result lives up to the promises of the company with a typical Crystal Pite. A piece that will also be European choreographic technique, very smooth, even during presented in Schaffhausen as part of energetic moments where we can feel a restraint on the physique. STEPS. At the arrival, you get a natural academic trend for an astonishing ensemble.” More information www.institutdelteatre.cat L'Alsace

Company tour calendar

NovembER 2019 04: Provins (FR) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 28: Bucharest (RO) – The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 07: Compiègne (FR) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim January 2020 09: Hannover (DE) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 26: Avignon (FR) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 27: Berne (CH) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 28: Le Creusot (FR) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 29: Schaffhouse (CH) – Wad Ras / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 30: Dieppe (FR) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 30: Schaffhouse (CH) – Wad Ras / A Picture of you falling / In Memoriam / Whim February 2020 18-20: Barcelona (ES) – Wad Ras / A Picture of you falling / The MaY 2020 Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 02: Chiasso (CH) – Wad Ras / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 05: Neuchâtel (CH) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim March 2020 08: Coire (CH) – Wad Ras / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 11-13: Sant Cugat (ES) – Kaash / The Prom / Whim 10: Zoug (CH) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 14: Sant Cugat (ES) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 11: Zoug (CH) – Wad Ras / A Picture of you falling / In Memoriam / Whim 22: Suresnes (FR) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim 13: Zurich (CH) – Wad Ras / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim April 2020 02: Maubeuge (FR) – Kaash / The Prom / In Memoriam / Whim ON TOUR SEASON 20 21 © Franck Thibault © Franck Thibault

Kaash The prom Choreography Akram Khan Choreography Lorena Nogal Music Nitin Sawhney Music Petern Skellern, Hans-Peter Lindstrøm, Stage scenography Anish Kapoor Perfume Genius Light design Aideen Malone Musical composition Manuel Rodríguez Costume design Kimie Nakano Light creation Victor Cuenca Costume maker Paca Naharro Costumes creation Manuel Rodríguez and Lorena Choreography assistance Eulàlia Ayguadé Farro, Nogal Nicola Monaco Created in 2018 - Duration 21 min Adapted by IT Dansa in 2018 - Duration 25 min

Created in 2002, Kaash («if only» in Hindi) is one Taking the form of a dynamic and colourful prom, of the main pieces by Akram Khan. Considered as Lorena Nogal explores the states in which we find a plastic shock by observers, the piece was the ourselves during parties that we do not wish to starting point of the choreographer’s international attend. Here, she is signing her first creation for IT recognition. His collaboration with Anish Kapoor Dansa company that she used to belong to. for the stage design, as well as the chiselled Through surprising and jovial encounters, self- musical score by the composer Nitin Sawhney are improvement, and nostalgic winks at her two far from being stranger to this success... Kaash years in the company, the choreographer depicts is a sublime evocation of the world’s origin. Hindi the tableau of her parties’ aversion with humour gods, black holes, Indian time cycles, creation and and benevolence. destruction are the starting points of this piece. Until the end, both the audience and the dancers “I have used the excuse to avoid them. I decided to will live in unison with chaos. Between shadow and change my habits. And I wonder: are people aware of light, Kaash defies time and embodies perfectly the number of small actions that, without realizing it, the will that Akram has to build bridges between are able to change our lives? I enter and say to myself: contemporary and Indian kathak dances. Thanks to these small actions, you become who you are or would like to be. I have not yet removed my coat that I already regret to have come.” “With this piece in which the choreographer combined, not Lorena Nogal without strength, Indian Kathak dance and contemporary one, he imposed an urgent style, with a high accuracy, which clear and sharp beauty was mesmerizing.” Rosita Boisseau, Télérama This program will be completed during the season with a third piece that is currently being confirmed.

Other piece on tour Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Whim – Choreography Alexander Ekman, musics Antonio Vivaldi, Marcelle Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 de Lacour, Edmundo Ros, Nina Simone [email protected] www.ltddanse.com MALANDAIN BALLET BIARRITZ

Created in 1998, the Centre Chorégraphique National Malandain Ballet Biarritz quickly became one of the most important companies of the French choreographic landscape. The company is composed of 22 permanent dancers and performs each year more than 100 representations on French, European and international stages acquiring a solid reputation. Season highlights

With more than 80 choreographies to his credit, Thierry Malandain Following the opening of a section has developed a repertoire where priority is given to the dancing body, dedicated to choreographic art, Thierry its power, its virtuosity, its humanity and its sensuality. Through his Malandain was named to the French creations, he strives to develop his own writing in search of a harmony Academy of Fine Arts in April 2019, between modern and classical, history and current events. Every alongside Blanca Li and Angelin Preljocaj. interpreter of the company is experienced in the technique of classical They are the first choreographers th dance, which translates and expresses itself throughout the prism of elected on this 9 artistic section of this French institution. Thierry Malandain’s Thierry Malandain’s work. installation at the Academy is to follow. In December 2019, Thierry Malandain will create Pastoral in Chaillot - Théâtre “Thierry Malandain is one of the rare choreographers of our time who dares national de la Danse (Paris). Then he will to create such finely tuned movements, like a bridge between classical and present it at the Theater Bonn (Germany) modern dance.” th Philippe Noisette, Les Échos to mark the 250 anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven and at the invitation of the Bonn Opera, the “One of Thierry Malandain’s virtue is honesty. It comes out of his work where composer’s hometown. This new ballet everything indicates a search for accuracy and eloquence, in order to avoid will combine the 6th Symphony, of course, the banality and arduousness, as much as possible, of a narrative ballet.” the Cantata op. 112 and some motifs Raphaël de Gubernatis, Le Nouvel Observateur from the Ruins of Athens. More information www.malandainballet.com Company tour calendar

October 2019 12: Saint-Michel-sur-Orge (FR) – Nocturnes / 26, 27: Saint-Étienne (FR) – Marie-Antoinette 21: Tarbes (FR) – Pastoral (preview) Estro / Boléro April 2020 14: Puteaux (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro November 2019 02: Saint-Louis (FR) – Pastoral 16: Friedrichshaffen (DE) – Pastoral 05: Mont-de-Marsan (FR) – Pastoral (preview) 05: Vicenza (IT) – Marie-Antoinette 20: Aschaffenburg (DE) – Noah 08: Oloron-Sainte-Marie (FR) – Pastoral (preview) 08: Mérignac (FR) – Beauty and the Beast 22: Neuss (DE) – Noah 13-15: Madrid (ES) – Marie-Antoinette 12: Cannes (FR) – Marie-Antoinette 23: Coesfeld (DE) – Beauty and the Beast 19, 20: Vannes (FR) – Pastoral (previews) 21, 22: Viersen (DE) – Pastoral 28: Carquefou (FR) – Beauty and the Beast 23: Périgueux (FR) – Pastoral (preview) 24-26: Sceaux (FR) – Pastoral 26: Malaga (ES) – Marie-Antoinette February 2020 May 2020 30: Brescia (IT) – Beauty and the Beast 04: Val-de-Reuil (FR) – Cinderella 02, 03: Biarritz (FR) – Pastoral 07, 08: Dallas (US) – Cinderella December 2019 04, 05: Biarritz (FR) – Sirènes 13: Des Moines (US) – Cinderella 01: Brescia (IT) – Beauty and the Beast 09: Gijon (ES) – Marie-Antoinette 15: Detroit (US) – Nocturnes / Estro / Boléro 04: Neuilly-sur-Seine (FR) – Marie-Antoinette 16: Murcia (ES) – Marie-Antoinette 06: Lanester (FR) – Marie-Antoinette March 2020 24: Sant Cugat (ES) – Marie-Antoinette 13-19: Paris (FR) (Chaillot, Théâtre national de la 03: Béziers (FR) – Marie-Antoinette 30, 31: Reims (FR) – Pastoral Danse) – Pastoral (Premiere) 04: Vicenza (IT) – Marie-Antoinette June 2020 22, 23: Bonn (DE) – Pastoral 06-08: Blagnac (FR) – Noah 04-07: Versailles (FR) – Marie-Antoinette 28, 29: Biarritz (FR) – Pastoral 10: Chartres (FR) – Pastoral 20, 21: Anvers (BE) – Pastoral 13, 14: Martigues (FR) – Marie-Antoinette January 2020 17: Fréjus (FR) – Marie-Antoinette 07, 08: Bourges (FR) – Nocturnes / Estro 20, 21: Aix-en-Provence (FR) – Marie-Antoinette 10, 11: Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (FR) – Nocturnes 24: Pordenone (IT) – Pastoral / Estro ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

Marie-Antoinette

Choreography Thierry Malandain

Music Joseph Haydn VIDEO Created in 2019 – Duration 80 min

Following Laurent Brunner’s invitation, director of Château de Versailles Spectacles, Thierry Malandain creates Marie-Antoinette accompanied by Joseph Haydn’s symphonies. After Cinderella (2013) and Beauty and the Beast (2015) also created on the Versailles Royal Opera’s initiative, Thierry Malandain stages his interpretation of another persona, part of the collective imagination, sometimes caricatured. She is remembered as “the Austrian” or even under the resonant nickname of “Madam Deficit”. Using this foundation where drama is central, Thierry Malandain continues exploring his favorite subjects that punctuate his entire repertoire.

“It is elegant and sober, and allows this equally refined dance to breathe. […] As always with Thierry Malandain, the dance is beautiful with pure lines, lyrical musings and calibrated overall movements. For the ball scenes, the choreographer drew inspiration on the gestures of baroque dance in the composition of some scenes. It’s cleverly done.” Claudine Colozzi, Danses avec la plume

Pastoral

Choreography Thierry Malandain Music Ludwig van Beethoven Upcoming creation in December 2019 - Duration 70 min

For this new ballet created on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of Ludwig van Beethoven’s birth and entitled Pastoral, music is, as often, Thierry Malandain’s main source of inspiration. The choreography ensues directly from the composer’s intentions, emotions and feelings felt while listening to the music. In doing so, Malandain

© Photos Olivier Houeix makes it a point of honor to remain as faithful as possible to the musical scores and its structure, limiting the use of artifice. The scenography will be sober as usual to give priority to this timeless choreographic writing that seeks to exalt the power of the dancing body, the sensuality and humanity of the company’s twenty-two dancers.

Rêverie romantique Sirènes

Choreography Thierry Malandain Choreography Martin Harriague

Music Frédéric Chopin VIDEO Musics Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, VIDEO Created in 2018 - Duration 30 min Francesco Araia & Hermann Raupach Created in 2018 - Duration 40 min Under the moonlight, white sylphs, both men and women, all in tutu, flutter around a poet in search of the ideal. This Drawing from the changing traits of legendary mermaids, is how Thierry Malandain captured this series of dances Martin Harriague overlaps and distorts myths to tell us called Les Sylphides and immersed himself in the recurring what is important to him deep down. First of all, the ocean, themes of Romanticism. Because for him “escape, rapture fascinating, threatening and threatened, with which he through dreams, self-reflection, human soul’s passions maintains a close relationship since childhood. Between and vulnerability, the disenchantment of the world – all humour and seriousness, his choreographic odyssey the things that have been constituting the Sickness of the reveals humanity grasped by the mermaids of “progress” in Century are not fatal, far from it.” an adventure that it cannot control.

“His shimmering writing responds seamlessly to the score and the “The choreography is interesting: Harriague has a personal language, dancers serve it with the cheerful virtuosity that is Ballet Biarritz’s the one of a strong dance, with a gestural style willingly angular and happy trademark.” jerky, using slamming feet, domino effect, discrepancies and he Raphaël de Gubernatis, Toute la Culture knows how to give the ensemble their effectiveness.” Ariane Bavelier, Le Figaro

Other piece on tour Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Cinderella – Choreography Thierry Malandain, music Sergueï Prokofiev Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 [email protected] www.ltddanse.com

YACOBSON BALLET

Saint Petersburg State Academic Theatre Artistic Director Andrian Fadeev 70 dancers

Yacobson Ballet was created in 1969 by Leonid Yacobson, a Ballet master and a famous choreographer. It was the first independent Russian company – not related to an Opera – and it quickly caused a sensation within the Russian ballet landscape, even nicknamed “Miniature Company” referring to the short length pieces created by its founder. Throughout his 7 years at the head of the company, Leonid Yacobson committed himself to the development of dance in Russia and has collaborated with renowned dancers such as Natalia Makarova, Alla Osipenko, Maya Season highlights Plisetskaya, Mikhail Baryshnikov, among others. After a substantial series of performances Since 2011, the Yacobson Ballet is directed by Andrian Fadeev, ex- at the Mariinsky Theatre and then at the principal dancer of the Mariinsky Ballet. Thanks to his passion and hard Tovstonogov Bolshoï Drama Theater from work, Andrian raises the company – composed of 70 dancers and soloists July 22 to August 31, 2019, the company with astonishing technique and strong personalities – to an international continues to establish itself as one of the level. He rejuvenates ballet from the classical repertoire. While preserving major companies on the international scene the tradition, he commissions new stage productions and renews costume thanks to its significant touring activities. This designs. Cutting the lengthy parts in order to keep the essential, he gives season, the company’s dancers will perform spirit and rhythm to those historical pieces, modernizing them. A beautiful in St. Petersburg, as well as in Japan, France, way to rediscover the ballet repertoire, performed elegantly and with brio Morocco, Italy, Israel and Germany. by excellent dancers. In December 2019, choreographer Iñaki Urlezaga will create a new ballet inspired by “Mind-blowing soloists are carried by the perfection of the corps de ballet. [...] The Queen of Spades, an opera emblematic A magnificent show, interpreters are glamorized by luminous costumes and of Russian culture, itself inspired by Alexandre give a dazzling performance.” Pushkin’s short story. With sets designed by Cerise Rochet, La Tribune – Le Progrès Ezio Frigerio, this creation will be presented on December 5 at the Tovstonogov Bolshoi “Yacobson Ballet of Saint Petersburg delivered a sumptuous performance. The Drama Theater in St. Petersburg. accuracy of the ballet is due not only to the tremendous talent of the dancers The season will end with the restage of but also to the attention to detail.” John Cranko’s famous piece Onegin, which Manon Costantini, Essonne info premieres is scheduled for December 2020. More Information www.yacobsonballet.ru

Tour schedule with our agency

January 2020 11: Fréjus (FR) – The Nutcracker 14-22: Lyon (FR) (Maison de la Danse) – The Nutcracker 24, 25: Ludwigsburg (DE) – The Nutcracker 28: Soissons (FR) – Tchaikovsky Gala 29: Thionville (FR) – Tchaikovsky Gala 31: Reims (FR) – The Nutcracker February 2020 01, 02: Reims (FR) – The Nutcracker 04: Les Herbiers (FR) – Tchaikovsky Gala 06: Montaigu (FR) – The Nutcracker 08: Mérignac (FR) – Tchaikovsky Gala 14-16: Aix-en-Provence (FR) – The Nutcracker 19-23: Moroccan tour (MO) – Swan Lake ON TOUR SEASON 20 21

Don Quixote

Choreography Johan Kobborg from Marius Petipa Music Ludwig Minkus VIDEO Duration 120 min + two intermissions

The Yacobson company asked Johan Kobborg to create a new version of the Don Quixote ballet. With a new eye, he brings it up to date while respecting the traditional version’s essence. The stage set production and costumes drawn and made by Jérôme Kaplan are exceptionally delicate and enhances this masterpiece. The ballet relates Kitri and Basilio’s thwarted loves, who use stratagems to get reunited despite Kitri father’s resistance. It’s finally Don Quixote who brings the © M.Logvinov happy ending. Our idealistic and reckless stargazer met in dream Cupid, his dear Dulcinea and the Dryades Queen in a fantastic scene. Our hero realizes that he has to speak in favour of the two lovers and this way allows their union.

“Kobborg has deconstructed the work; mixing up the narrative’s building blocks before reassembling them in a masterpiece of balance that remains recognizably traditional but is also refreshingly new.” Graham Watts, Dance Tabs

Sleeping Beauty

Choreography Jean-Guillaume Bart from Marius Petipa Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky VIDEO Duration 140 min + two intermissions

Sleeping Beauty is Leonid Yacobson Theatre’s first-ever collaboration with Jean- Guillaume Bart, a world-famous French dance teacher and choreographer who also performs at the Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris. When he came to Saint Petersburg, he chose to stage Sleeping Beauty, a piece he was particularly familiar with since he earned the honorary title of Danseur Etoile at the Opéra de Paris for playing the part of Prince Désiré in this very same ballet. Jean- © Nikolai Krusser Guillaume Bart’s ambition is to revive the spectacular production of the past, in a way that would speak to the modern public, notably with a pre-prolog that sheds light on the origin of Carabosse’s hatred.

“Jean-Guillaume Bart wanted to strip the story. To make it more lively, more expressive and all this through the dance’s eloquence. This is the strength of its production.” Ariane Bavelier, Le Figaro

The Queen of Spades Choreography Iñaki Urlezaga Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Head Decorator Ezio Frigerio Upcoming creation in December 2019

Created in 1890 and inspired by Alexander Pushkin’s short story, the opera The Queen of Spades is the ultimate Russian work. The libretto is signed by Modest Ilyitch Tchaikovsky, youngest brother of Pyotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky who composes its music. It is on the Opus 68, lyrical masterpiece of the famous composer, that the Argentinian choreographer Iñaki Urlezaga will create this new ballet for the Yacobson on the occasion of the 220th anniversary of Pushkin’s birth. The original libretto, romantic and sensitive with a pinch of fantastic and a hero defying the odds, will take the spectator into the streets, the balls and the hovels of Saint Petersburg and the shores of the Neva. Undoubtedly, this universe will be magnified by the sets of the master Ezio Frigerio and the costumes of Franca Squarciapino.

Other programs on tour Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Tchaikovsky Gala – Choreography Marius Petipa, Lev Ivanov, Vasily Vainonen Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 and Jean-Guillaume Bart Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky [email protected] Mixed program –Pieces to be defined www.ltddanse.com

CHAILLOT – THÉÂTRE NATIONAL DE LA DANSE

ASSOCIated ARTISTS Direction Didier Deschamps

The Théâtre national de Chaillot is one of the five French National Theatres (public institutions whose missions are defined by the State) and the only one to have a project built around and based on dance. By becoming the emblematic “National Theater for Dance” in 2016, Chaillot has reasserted its commitment to support choreographic creation and the More information diversification audiences for dance. Under the leadership of its director www.theatre-chaillot.fr Didier Deschamps, the institution has also consolidated its position as a creative house through various initiatives, including the presence of associated artists. This presence is seen as a continuous multi-annual, broader collaboration than a usual show’s presentation or a co-production. This collaboration is based on creations and artistic support as well as the theatre’s production or co-production. In 2018, the Théâtre national de la danse of Chaillot chose to collaborate with the Trait d’Union for the international diffusion of the productions coming from this program, strengthening the project’s dynamic.

Artists represented by the agency in this project

JANN GALLOIS

Since the season 2017/2018 Jann Gallois is an associated artist of Chaillot - Théâtre national de la danse. By means of this collaboration, Chaillot asserts its will to establish new writing and promote the contemporary dance generation. Coming from hip-hop background and yet unique and hardly comparable, Jann Gallois pushes the boundaries of forms, dancers and public expectations.

TOUR Calendar November 2019 March 2020 April 2020 06-09, 12-17: Paris (FR) (Chaillot, 03: Angers (FR) – Samsara 01, 02: Créteil (FR) – Samsara Théâtre national de la Danse) – 06: Dreux (FR) – Samsara 09: Limoges (FR) – Samsara Samsara (Premiere) 10: Bayonne (FR) – Samsara 21: Bezons (FR) – Samsara 12: Tarbes (FR) – Samsara 20: Châtillon (FR) – Samsara January 2020 31: Créteil (FR) – Samsara 15: Rungis (FR) – Samsara

Damien Jalet

Chaillot welcomed Damien Jalet for the first time in January 2019 with Skid, a performance created for the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani. Four shows in which the dancers defied the laws of gravity on a sloping surface of 34° in front of a packed auditorium. A promising start which motivated Chaillot to propose this choreographer a lasting collaboration. Already an associated artist at the Théâtre National de Bretagne (TNB) since 2017, Damien Jalet will be an associated artist at Chaillot – Théâtre national de la Danse, from September 2019 onwards, for a period of 3 years. This season, the theatre is going to present the piece Vessel from March 6th to March 13th, 2020. ON TOUR SEASON 20 21 © Agathe Poupeney © DR

Samsara Planet JANN GALLOIS Damien Jalet

Choreography Jann Gallois Choreography Damien Jalet Music Charles Amblard Set Design Kohei Nawa Upcoming creation in 2019 Upcoming creation in 2020

With her next creation Samsara, the choreographer Fascinated by the scientific rigour and the mythological Jann Gallois starts from this Sanskrit word meaning world contained in the works of the Japanese sculptor “wandering” or “transmigration” in Tibetan. It designates Kohei Nawa, Damien Jalet created with him Vessel. This the cycle of rebirth in which are entangled in the non- piece will be presented in March 2020 in Chaillot. After enlightened beings. Chained to samsara, from which their first opus, they pursue their research in a mutual they cannot escape, human beings are born, die and way to fuse, cross and transcend their respective arise from the dead continually in this infinite cycle, as mediums. Between moving sculpture and sculptural long as the light of consciousness doesn’t awaken them. performance, Planet is responding and echoing to Ignorance and attachment to our uncontrolled desires Vessel like the second part of a diptych. In the wake of are the principal causes keeping us from lifting this last piece, Planet is performed in a middle ground, ourselves up spiritually. The intention of Jann Gallois between science and mythology, creating another world consists of making this vision of the world and life visible out of the anatomy of the dancers. While Vessel was by symbolizing it with an entanglement of long ropes in depicting in abstract ways the two levels of the Kojiki which the dancers are intertwined, attached to each (the oldest Japanese books narrating the creation of other and submitted to a “machine” they cannot grasp, the world: Yomi (The Underworld) and Takamaga-hara which is overhanging them and incessantly kick-starting (The Plain of High Heavens), Planet takes place in the a new cycle of life. The choreographic writing will third and last level: Ashihara-no-Nakatsukuni, literally articulate itself around one central scenographic object, “The Central Land of The Reeds” (which refers to the a giant “spider web” in which bodies are imprisoned. world we inhabit). This constrained creative process is Jann Gallois’ habit. The reeds are humans, referring to the famous This time, she wants to materialize it, in order to provide Blaise Pascal quote, oscillating in a fragile balance a counterpoint for this reality invisible to the eye. For between power and vulnerability, harmony and survival, her, “There is no unique and limited shape for this truth, destruction and evolution. In Planet, a dry landscape of everyone has his or her own way of interpreting the shiny black sand, as a contemporary reinterpretation of human condition and reconnecting with one’s spirituality, the Kyoto Zen gardens, is transformed radically during the dramaturgical challenge is to succeed in finding the the piece through the actions of the dancers. From the codes of this incredible enigma of life, in order to cast human body being the continuity of a landscape to the off the chains of suffering and free the human beings.” landscape perceived as a continuity of the human body, Planet sets in motion the visceral and tragic love tale between humans and the planet they are bound to.

Le Trait d’Union PARIS - BERLIN - MADRID - ANGOULÊME Main office : +33 5 45 94 75 95 [email protected] www.ltddanse.com