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Sydney House presents a Sadler’s Wells production ​ ​ with

27 – 31 AUGUST Drama Theatre 1 Welcome

Louise Herron AM Olivia Ansell Chief Executive Officer Head of Contemporary Performance Sydney Opera House Sydney Opera House Welcome to the Australian premiere of Pure Dance What makes a great dancer? Artistry. And Natalia by one of the most distinctive ballerinas of our Osipova has it in spades. time, Royal principal . This Contemporary Performance at Sydney Opera House breathtaking program showcases not only her champions modern storytellers and the mavericks artistic versatility and exquisite technique, but who reinvent classic art forms. Following on from also her expertise as a curator. Contemporary Performance’s season of LEV Dance Pure Dance features six pieces – including four Company’s Love Cycle earlier this year, Pure Dance newly commissioned works – and reunites starring Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg Osipova with David Hallberg, an American Ballet with guest artists Jonathan Goddard and Jason Theatre principal and resident guest artist with Kittelberger straddles the perfect balance of classical . and contemporary choreography featuring work by some of the world’s most exciting dance makers. I would like to acknowledge Sadler’s Wells in , and the Opera House’s commitment to From Roy Assaf’s Six Years Later and Flutter by continuing our long-standing collaboration to Spanish choreographer Iván Pérez through to present works by the world’s most celebrated Valse Triste by former Bolshoi Artistic Director and choreographers. choreographer , this mixed bill of works also features Thanks also to our visionary philanthropic group a new solo by emerging Japanese choreographer The Greats and our Major Partner Etihad Airways and former soloist Yuka Oishi. This for their invaluable support in making this season month, in keeping with the theme of showcasing possible, including bringing artists from around the women in dance, Sydney Opera House are also world to Sydney, among them on this occasion the proud to partner with Dance Australia and the marvellous Natalia Osipova. Australian Ballet to offer a choreographic residency I hope you enjoy the performance. for Australian choreographer Amelia Drummond, formerly of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. This new initiative was formed to nurture professional opportunities for female choreographers wishing to create work with classically trained dancers. Osipova and Hallberg – whose collective credits

Cover photo credit: Johan Persson include starring roles with The , and the American Ballet Theatre – is a truly magical pairing that we hope you enjoy.

2 3 A note from Natalia

I am so pleased to have been asked to develop this programme, Pure Dance, produced by Sadler’s Wells following our first collaboration in 2016. I want to offer the audience works that will demonstrate the power of dance to move, emote and inspire. These pieces are all created by choreographers that I greatly admire, including established icons like Tudor, contemporary artists such as Ratmansky, and emerging choreographers, whose work shows so much promise and makes the future of dance very exciting. I feel deeply honoured that David Hallberg has graciously agreed to join me on stage for this programme. He is one of the greatest artists of his generation, and will be able to flawlessly convey the essence and precious qualities of the work he performs. Dance is an amazing language, whether classical or contemporary or any other style. I really enjoy dancing and working with amazing choreographers and partners who deeply inspire me. The works in this programme reflect my personal taste, hopes and dreams for the future of the art form I hold so dear.

Natalia Osipova Artistic Director and Dancer Photo credit: Rick Guest. Stylist credit: Olivia Pomp

4 5 Program of Works

The Leaves are Fading Flutter In Absentia Six Years Later

Choreographer: Antony Tudor Choreographer: Iván Pérez Choreographer: Kim Brandstrup Choreographer: Roy Assaf World Premiere: 1975, American Ballet Theatre World Premiere: 2018, Sadler’s Wells World Premiere: 2018, Sadler’s Wells World Premiere: 2011, Suzanne Dellal Centre, Israel Dancers: Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg Dancers: Natalia Osipova and Jonathan Goddard Dancers: David Hallberg Dancers: Natalia Osipova and Jason Kittelberger Composer: Antonín Dvořák, from string quartet Composer: , Mothertongue (I. Archive II. Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer: Deefly,Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig van Cypresses and other chamber music for strings Shower IV. Monster) By arrangement with Chester Music in D-minor, part 1 Beethoven, Reflections of my life by Marmalade Limited acting on behalf of itself and St Rose Music Music Editing: Reut Yehudai

This performance of the main pas de deux from Flutter is a vibrant dance with a simple metaphor: The ‘absence’ of the title has two very different What event preceded this encounter? the ballet The Leaves are Fading, choreographed a jump into the abyss, stepping into the unknown. resonances. Firstly, it is a treasured moment in The knowing that a certain past eventually caused by Antony Tudor, is presented by arrangement with When Natalia invited me to create this piece for the creative process when a dancer has learnt the new encounter, will transport you between the The Antony Tudor Ballet Trust. It salutes the artistry, her and Jonathan, I felt the urge to question our a new piece. Withdrawing into himself, he is obvious present and the presumed past. vision and enduring relevance of Tudor’s work. relationship to the unknown and our desire to temporarily ‘absent,’ his stillness registering his This delicately nuanced pas de deux explores the discover new territories. I was immediately inspired intense concentration, totally absorbed in the music, We don’t know if they met, or loved, or if they reminiscence of love and the bittersweet beauty of by the exhilarating music of the composer Nico charting the movements of the choreography. hoped for more encounters. We can understand the passing of life. As summer drifts into autumn we Muhly, Mothertongue. Here, a soundscape of what happened during the six years preceding this A yet more mysterious sense of ‘absence’ emerged are reminded of the many seasons of our own lives, female voices is formed by digits extracted from moment only by what they have decided to share when we were working in the studio. Even when and how the melancholic beauty of falling blossoms addresses where Nico had lived. A kind of archive with us now. the violin filled the empty rehearsal room with and fading leaves can be seen as a greater metaphor of reminiscent memories, carrying the emotional sound, it somehow made the space seem vast and A quiet meeting, embarrassed, hushed. Perhaps of the infinite nature of life itself. resonance of his personal journey. Natalia’s desire desolate. The music intensified a sense of solitude they remember each other, maybe they are trying to to create a new work in which she may discover – The Antony Tudor Ballet Trust surrounding David: he seemed alone, wrapped in an prove that these six years were not in vain. something new about herself, through the encounter uncanny sense of something or somebody no longer of a new movement language, has been a great As their gestures are passing in front of our eyes, being there, having left, departed, gone… inspiration for this piece and for my life. each flicker of movement will either confirm what – Kim Brandstrup, September 2018 we thought or shatter our assumptions. – Iván Pérez, September 2018 – Amir Kliger

6 Photo credit: Johan Persson 7 Ave Maria Valse Triste

Choreographer: Yuka Oishi Choreographer: Alexei Ratmansky World Premiere: 2018, Sadler’s Wells World Premiere: 2018, Sadler’s Wells Dancers: Natalia Osipova Dancers: Natalia Osipova and David Hallberg Composer: Franz Schubert, Ave Maria, Composer: Jean Sibelius, Valse Triste Ellens Gesang III, D. 839 Barbara Bonney & Geoffrey Parsons

Despite the music, this is not a religious piece. I have known Natalia from her early days at the Ave Maria is about a woman with a strength of Bolshoi when I was artistic director, and since then love and sensibility. at American Ballet Theatre, where I also worked with David Hallberg. They are both very special When I started to pick a theme, intuition told me artists, dear to my heart, and I am delighted that the to work with Natalia‘s feminine side. I had an image three of us have been reunited to work on this piece. of her dancing to a powerful yet beautiful song in a simple white dress to reflect this. Valse Triste is a short work. This “sad waltz” is by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. It’s music that I believe that dance is a language which we are only I have always wanted to dance to myself, and so able to feel. Working with Natalia, I thought I might has a very personal meaning to me. And now it is be able to find a new way of phrasing a sentence or significant in a new way because it forms part of even finding a new language together. Natalia’s own project, with a name that I like very – Yuka Oishi, September 2018 much. It says it all: Pure Dance. – Alexei Ratmansky, September 2018 Photo: Alistair Muir

8 Photo credit: Johan Persson 9 Dancers

Natalia Osipova David Hallberg Artistic Director and Dancer Dancer Russian dancer Natalia Osipova is a principal of Born in South Dakota, David Hallberg trained at The Royal Ballet. Born in Moscow, she began the Arizona Ballet School and the dancing at the age of five, and at age eight joined School before joining American Ballet Theatre in the Mikhail Lavrosky Ballet School. From 1995 to 2001. He became a in 2005. 2004 she trained at the Moscow State Academy of Hallberg made history in 2011 when he became the Choreography. After graduating, she entered the first American to join the Bolshoi Ballet under the corps of the Bolshoi Ballet, where she was promoted title Premier Dancer. He danced the Prince in The to principal in 2010. Her repertory at the Bolshoi Sleeping Beauty for the opening of the renovated included Kitri (), , Nikiya and , and later appeared in a live cinema Gamzatti (La Bayadère), , Esmerelda, broadcast of the performance streamed globally. Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty) and Swanilda (Coppélia). In 2011, she left the Bolshoi to join the With American Ballet Theatre, his repertoire Mikhailovsky Ballet as a principal. includes leading roles in all the major classical . He dances a range of works by George Osipova has appeared as a guest artist with Balanchine, , Kurt Jooss, Antony companies around the world. In March 2012 Tudor, Mark Morris, , Lar Lubovitch, she became a principal of American Ballet Jiří Kylián, and William Forsythe, Theatre, where she created the title role in Alexei along with roles he created in seven of Alexei Ratmansky’s . Ratmansky’s world premieres. She joined The Royal Ballet as a principal in autumn Hallberg danced at the , 2013, after appearing as a guest artist the previous a nationally telecast performance celebrating the season as Odette () with . career of , attended by President Her roles with the company include Giselle, Kitri and Mrs Obama. (Don Quixote), Sugar Plum Fairy (), Hallberg has been a guest artist with Mariinsky Princess Aurora (The Sleeping Beauty), Lise (La Ballet, Paris Opera Ballet, , The Royal Fille mal gardée), Titania (), Marguerite Ballet, Teatro Colon, Kiev Ballet, Royal Swedish (), Juliet, Tatiana (Onegin), Ballet, Opera di Roma, Georgian State Ballet and Manon, Mary Vetsera (), Natalia Petrovna The Australian Ballet. His memoir, A Body of Work, (A Month in the Country), Anastasia and roles in chronicles his triumphant return to the stage after Rhapsody, , and DGV: Danse à grande a near career-ending injury. vitesse. His recognitions include the Benois de la Danse Her role creations include Amélie Gautreau Prize, the Princess Grace Fellowship, the Rising (’s Strapless), Wayne Star Award from the Georgian State Ballet, the Bell McGregor’s Tetractys and Woolf Works, and Family Foundation Emerging Artist Award from Alastair Marriott’s Connectome. Americans for the Arts, and the Chris Hellman Her awards include Golden Masks for her Dance Award and its Statue Award. performances in In the Upper Room (2008) and The David Hallberg Scholarship was created to La Sylphide (2009), Critics’ Circle National Dance mentor a young aspiring male student for a career Awards (Best Female Dancer, 2007, 2010 and 2014) in dance at the JKO School of American Ballet and a Benois de la Danse Award (Best Female Theatre. He has also created the ABT Incubator, Dancer, 2008). facilitating a platform for emerging choreographers. Osipova has curated two programmes of works for In 2017, The Australian Ballet named Hallberg Sadler’s Wells: Natalia Osipova in 2016 and Pure resident guest artist, the first dancer to hold that Dance in 2018. Her most recent work includes title. Hallberg serves as a board member with New The Mother by the choreographer Arthur Pita, York City Center and PERFORMA in . which premiered in Edinburgh (2018), was shown in Moscow (2019) and at the Southbank Centre London (2019). A documentary film about Osipova called Force of Nature Natalia, made by the BAFTA director Gerry Fox, was in cinemas around the UK in June 2019.

10 11 Jonathan Goddard Dancer Jonathan is a professional dance artist, movement director and choreographer who has worked for many major British dance companies, including Rambert. He is a founding member of New Movement Collective, and has been a tutor at the Architectural Association in London. Jonathan was nominated for a Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award in 2007, an Olivier Award for outstanding achievement in dance in 2008, and a Critics Circle National Dance Award for best male dancer in 2011 and 2012. He has won the Critics Circle Award for best male dancer twice, in 2008 and 2014, as well as outstanding male performance (modern) in 2014. His choreographer credits include Company Chameleon’s Pictures We Make (Linbury Studio Theatre), and as a movement director: Strange Interlude, Man and Superman, Beaux Stratagem, As You Like It, Sunset at the Villa Thalia (National Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Roundabout Theatre Broadway); Two Gentlemen of Verona (Royal Shakespeare Company) and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal Drury Lane, West End, London.)

Jason Kittelberger Rehearsal Director and Dancer Jason Kittelberger hails from Rochester, New York. He began training and performing at Performance Plus, Draper School of Dance, and School of the Arts, studying dance, acting, musical theatre, and production design. He continued his dance education at the North Carolina School of the Arts. Kittelberger has performed with Rochester City Ballet, , Hubbard Street II under Julie Nakagawa and Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet under Benoit-Swan Pouffer, where he appeared in works by Ohad Naharin, Crystal Pite, Hofesh Shechter, Didy Veldman, Jo Stromgren, Jacopo Godani, Jill Johnson, Emanuel Gat and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. Interest in commercial work has inspired Kittelberger to train actors such as Emily Blunt and Benedict Cumberbatch, as well as appear in films such as Adjustment Bureau, MA, A Float, and Looking Glass. Recently he worked as associate choreographer on Jagged Little Pill. Kittelberger has worked alongside Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui as assistant choreographer, rehearsal director, and a dancer in Cherkaoui’s Photo credit: Johan Persson productions Fractus V, Pluto, Shell Shock, Firebird with , Milonga, Puzzle, Icon, Harbor Me with LA Dance Project, Satyagraha, and Qutb. 12 13 Choreographers

Roy Assaf Yuka Oishi Six Years Later Ave Maria Roy Assaf was born in Israel in 1982. He has been Yuka Oishi is a dancer and a choreographer with dancing and creating as long as he can remember. projects globally. She started to dance at the age of He began formal training at the age of sixteen, when three and joined the Hamburg Ballet in 2002. She he joined a dance group led by Regba Gilboa at the became the company’s first Japanese female soloist community centre in Kiryat Gat. Two years later, in 2010. She choreographed RENKU together with Assaf was drafted into the Israel Defence Forces. Orkan Dann for the Hamburg Ballet in 2012, receiving the Rolf Mares Prize. Since August 2015 she has In 2003 he met the internationally recognised worked as a freelance artist, choreographing for the choreographer Emanuel Gat, with whom he Takarazuka Revue Theater, The World Ballet Festival, collaborated closely as both performer and Etoiles Gala and Tokyu Silvester Concert. She has choreographic assistant from 2004-2009. Since 2010, created a full-length piece for Origen Festival Cultural he has been developing his own works independently in Riom, Switzerland every year since 2014. Her and has received commissions from renowned recent works include Ku for Béjart Ballet Lausanne; companies including Benjamin Millepied’s L.A Dance Sacré, a solo danced by to Stravinsky’s Project, the , the Batsheva Dance at the Origen Festival Cultural; and Company, the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company, Leaf, a solo for Gil Roman performed at The World The Juilliard School, and TanzMainz. His work has Ballet Festival Gala in Japan. been performed in such renowned venues and festivals as the Théâtre National de Chaillot, Jacob’s Pillow, ADF, Bolzano Danza, Pavillon Noir, and La Biennale De Lyon.

Iván Pérez Kim Brandstrup Flutter In Absentia Born in Spain in 1983, Iván Pérez began his career as Kim Brandstrup studied in Denmark and at London a dancer with the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT). Contemporary Dance School. He was the winner of He fully committed himself to choreography after his the 2017 Critics Award for Rambert’s Transfigured debut work for the NDT2, Flesh (2011). Internationally, Night, the 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Dance he has created works for BalletBoyz, Ballet Moscow, Creation for Goldberg: The Rojo/Brandstrup Project Compañía Nacional de Danza, Dance Forum Taipei, (The Royal Ballet) and the 1990 Olivier for Orfeo amongst others. As an associate choreographer of the (London Contemporary Dance Theatre). Dutch production house Korzo, he created Kick the Bucket, Hide And Seek, Exhausting Space and Waiting Notable engagements include Life is A Dream for the Barbarians. In 2016, the feature filmYoung (Rambert); Billy Budd (Teatro Real, Madrid); Eugene Men premiered on BBC Two/Arte, based on the stage Onegin (); Rystet Spejl (Royal work created for BalletBoyz at Sadler’s Wells, Danish Ballet); Jeux (, 2015); winner of the Rose D’Or and the Golden Prague Transfigured Night (Rambert); Leda and the Swan awards. Since 2016, he has created works with his film for the Deloitte Ignitte Festival (The Royal Ballet, own company INNE, including The Inhabitants 2014); and Metamorphosis – Titian, (his first site-specific work), ISLAND and Becoming. co-choreographed with Wayne McGregor (The Royal Ballet). Direction and choreography credits In May 2018 his creation The Male Dancer for include Seven Deadly Sins (Greek National Opera), the Paris Opera Ballet premiered at Palais Garnier. The Hour They Knew Nothing of Each Other Currently, he is the artistic director of Dance Theatre (Malmo), Dybukk (Saarländisches Staatstheatre) Heidelberg at Theatre und Orchester Heidelberg, and La Traviata (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées). where he created his latest work Impression.

14 15 Alexei Ratmansky Valse Triste Alexei Ratmansky was born in St. Petersburg and trained at the Bolshoi Ballet School, performing with the Ukranian National Ballet, the and the . He was named artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet in 2004. Under his direction, it was named best foreign company in 2005 and 2007 by The Critics’ Circle in London. In 2007, he won a Golden Mask Award for best choreographer for his production of Jeu de Cartes. Ratmansky joined American Ballet Theatre as artist in residence in 2009. Since then he has choreographed a new Don Quixote and premiered Souvenir for the Het National Ballet, staged his version of Jeu de Carte for , Romeo and Juliet for The National Ballet of Canada, for The Australian Ballet (2013), Aida for The Metropolitan Opera (2010), Prince Igor (2014), Firebird for ABT (2012), Shostakovich Trilogy for ABT, Symphonic Dances for Miami City Ballet (2012) and The Golden Cockerel for The Royal Danish Ballet (2013). Reproductions of his works are part of ballet companies’ repertories around the world.

Antony Tudor The Leaves are Fading Antony Tudor is a titan of 20th century ballet. His early study was with Marie Rambert in England, who encouraged his development as a choreographer. At the start of the Second World War, he was invited to become a founding choreographer for American Ballet Theatre, and he maintained a nearly 50-year association with the company: his ballets, including The Leaves Are Fading, are considered its artistic “conscience.” Today, The Antony Tudor Ballet Trust champions and protects his legacy, shepherding his ballets around the world. Photo credit: Johan Persson

16 17 Credits

A Sadler’s Wells London Production THE LEAVES ARE FADING Co-produced with New York City Center Costume Design: Patricia Zipprodt In association with The Round Company Costume Maker: Amanda Barrow Costume Dyer: Sheila White Relighter: Adam Carrée Artistic Director and Dancer Natalia Osipova Repetiteurs: John Gardner, Dancers Jonathan Goddard, David Hallberg, Amanda McKerrow Jason Kittelberger

FLUTTER For Sadler’s Wells Choreographer‘s Assistant: Chief Executive & Artistic Director Christopher Tandy Alistair Spalding CBE Costume Design: Christina Cunningham Executive Producer Suzanne Walker Costume Supervisor: Peter Todd Head of Producing & Touring Bia Oliveira Costume Maker: Amanda Barrow Senior Producer Ghislaine Granger Lighting Design: Nigel Edwards Tour Producer Aristea Charalampidou Assistant Producer Lani Huens Marketing Manager Daniel King IN ABSENTIA Press Officer Charlotte Constable Costume Design: Christina Cunningham Lighting Design: Jean Kalman

Technical Team Production Manager & Relighter SIX YEARS LATER Adam Carrée Choreographer’s Assistant: Madison Hoke Company Stage Manager Emma Basilico Seamstress: Haya Geiman Sound Engineer Mark Webber Lighting Design: Omer Sheizaf Costume Supervisor for creation Roxanne Armstrong AVE MARIA Rehearsal Director Jason Kittelberger Costume Design: Stewart J. Charlesworth Costume Maker: Kingsley Hall With thanks to: Tobias Round, Tatiana Lighting Design: Adam Carrée Tokareva, Dianna Mesion, Jane Hermann, Kevin O’Hare, New York City Center, Steph

Webb, Emi del Bene, Georgia Kersh, Dutch VALSE TRISTE Costume Design: Moritz Junge National Opera, Arlene Shuler, Stanford Costume Makers: For Natalia Osipova, Makishi and Sonja Kostich Suzanne Parkinson from Parkinson Gill / For David Hallberg, Amanda Barrow Artist photographers: Rick Smith, Koen Costume Dyer: Nicola Killeen Broos, Henrik Bjerregrav, Volker Beinhorn, Lighting Design: Adam Carrée Fabrizio Ferri Photo credit: Johan Persson

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