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2 2 O SEASON O of dance The Royal New Zealand Ballet sincerely thanks the creative partners who have assisted in bringing this vision of our 2020 season to life: Photography / Ross Brown – rossbrownphotographer.com Creative / Homegrown Creative – homegrowncreative.co.nz Makeup / Assisted by Mackenzie Boddington and Kelly Smither for M.A.C Jewellery / Partridge Jewellers – partridgejewellers.com Cover Image / RNZB Principal Nadia Yanowsky – 2O2O Vision Look to the future. Our vision for 2020 shines a bright light into Venus Rising 25 theatres throughout Aotearoa, bringing new Four celestial ballets... works and new discoveries that will inspire you to see ballet with fresh eyes. Our aim is always to bring you dance that delights Dangerous Liaisons you, moves you, starts conversations and brings Lovers beware… people together. 2020 brings you ballets with bite: crisp and The Sleeping Beauty delectable, to feed the mind and nourish the soul. Once upon a time… See a new year of ballet with 20:20 vision – clear, sharp and focused on the future of dance. Join us today! WWW.RNZB.ORG.NZ/SUBSCRIBE E A S Y ENJOY SHARE ONLINE THE WITH BOOKING BENEFITS OTHERS Vodafone is proud to keep the Royal New Zealand Ballet connected, whether we’re in Wellington or out on the road. In December 2019, Vodafone will be launching the next generation of mobile technology – 5G. To learn more about this means for you and your business visit vodafone.co.nz/5G. Dancer / Laurynas Vėjalis 1 From our From the Minister Artistic Director Kia ora koutou, In addition to our 2020 subscription season, Tutus on Tour returns for a fourth Tēnā koutou katoa, 2020 for me is all about vision: that moment successive season, this year expanded to It is my pleasure to when everything comes into perfect focus 14 venues. RNZB Education will continue welcome you to the and you can see clearly, right to the horizon. its vital, visionary work, working with Our 2020 programme has occupied my Royal New Zealand schools, dance students and teachers and thoughts for many years and has taken Ballet’s 2020 season. in your community. We are committed time to come into focus – I feel I have been to sharing the joy of dance – moving and working towards this moment for more than being moved – with everyone. a decade – but now that it is here, I couldn’t be more excited to share it with you. I invite you to share in this vision, looking out beyond the horizon to a new year of I am delighted that New Zealanders of all I believe that choreographers are born, but dance. Please support us by subscribing, ages continue to have the opportunity to it is up to ballet companies to nurture and contributing to our membership and experience their national ballet company support them and give them space for their philanthropy programmes, and by talking, performing in their home towns, which vision to become a reality. As an Artistic sharing and bringing your friends. We look this year will encompass the country, from Director, both here at the Royal New Zealand forward to seeing you at the ballet. Kerikeri to Invercargill. RNZB Education Ballet and in my previous roles, I have always will travel throughout Aotearoa, reaching looked for choreographers with the potential Let’s make every day a dance day. schools and diverse communities to share to create ballets that dancers and audiences the joy of dance. will fall in love with, that will illuminate our darkest spaces, that will provoke thought, Patricia Barker / Artistic Director As ever, I am thrilled to see New Zealand conversation, laughter and tears: our companies breaking new ground on the humanity on stage. world stage. My warmest congratulations go to Patricia Barker, Lester McGrath 2020 will bring ten ballets by eight of these and the Royal New Zealand Ballet, for visionary choreographers to theatres the great year of performances and throughout New Zealand. Between our events that they have put together, and subscription season and Tutus on Tour we particularly for the vision and inspiration have 78 performances. Our choreographers behind the choice of choreographers. come from Aotearoa, from Australia, from South Africa, the USA, Colombia (via The Hon Carmel Sepuloni / Netherlands) and Canada. And, although their visions and works for the Royal New Zealand Associate Minister for Arts, Ballet couldn’t be more different, they have a Culture and Heritage common bond. I believe that we are the first ballet company, anywhere in the world, to present an entire year of repertoire created only by women. 3 Four celestial ballets where stars 29 May to of dance shine in southern skies 5 Jul Venus Rising TWYLA THARP, ALICE TOPP, ANDREA SCHERMOLY AND SARAH FOSTER-SPROULL Dancers / Left: Nadia Yanowsky, Sara Garbowski. 5 Right: Kirby Selchow, Laurynas Vėjalis. Lovers beware… Dangerous 20 Aug to 19 Sep Liaisons Rich, idle and cruel, the Vicomte de Valmont and the Marquise de Merteuil delight in the Dangerous corruption of virtue. For them, there is no love, only malicious pleasure in crushing Liaisons youthful dreams of romance and humiliating the innocent in a corrupt and wicked game. With players such as these, lovers beware! Dancers / Left: Caroline Wiley. Right: Allister Madin, Sara Garbowski. 7 Caroline and Sara are wearing a selection of South Sea Pearls from Partridge Jewellers. THE RYMAN HEALTHCARE The SEASON OF Sleeping Beauty 29 Oct to 12 Dec … in an enchanted kingdom, a princess was born. Blessed by fairies, Aurora grew into a beautiful young woman, protected by everyone who loved her from the evil beyond the castle walls. On her 16th birthday, Aurora’s world was shattered by the malevolent Carabosse, but, saved from certain death by the kindly Lilac Fairy, she and her kingdom slept for a hundred years, until woken by a brave and handsome prince. Restored to life and health, Aurora and her prince ruled over the kingdom with wisdom and kindness, in a happy golden age of love and beauty. Once upon a time… upon Once Dancers / Katherine Minor, Mayu Tanigaito, Kirby Selchow. 9 E A O T A Tutus on Tour PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH RYMAN HEALTHCARE R O Ka-piti Nelson Whangarei Blenheim Kerikeri Hamilton Queenstown Ka-piti Performing Arts Centre Theatre Royal Capitaine Bougainville Theatre ASB Theatre Marlborough Turner Centre Clarence Street Theatre Memorial Centre 29 February 1-2 March 3 March 4 March 4 March 6/7 March 7 March Wanaka Taupo- Gore New Plymouth Oamaru Ashburton Whanganui Lake Wanaka Centre Great Lake Centre St James Theatre TSB Showplace Opera House Ashburton Trust Events Centre Royal Wanganui Opera House 8 March 10 March 11 March 12 March 13 March 14 March 14 March Dancers / Left to right: Kaya Weight, Teagan Tank, Nathan Mennis, Rhiannon Fairless, 11 Wan Bin Yuan, Ella Chambers, Luke Cooper, Clare Schellenberg, Calum Gray, Lara Flannery. A BOOK TWO or MORE Become 2020 SHOWS NEVER FLEXI- N O to become an RNZB subscriber and MISS PAYMENT EXTRA receive exclusive discounts and other A SHOW OPTION FEES an RNZB special benefits. Our subscription packages are designed to suit any budget or schedule, and are the easiest way to Season enjoy the finest ballet all year round. Subscribing is easy. Plan a great year of Subscribers can Subscribers pay one $6 Head to page 36 to find out how. ballet by subscribing choose to pay for their service fee that includes Subscriber and locking dates in subscription in two easy postage. your calendar. instalments. There are no credit card fees, Choose to pay $100 now, additional booking fees or any and the remainder will be other hidden charges. We keep charged to your credit card it simple and up-front. on 30 March 2020 B E S T E A S Y DESIGN SEATS FREE ONLINE SAVE YOUR TICKET IN THE PROGRAMMES BOOKING MONEY OWN EXCHANGE HOUSE You can now book Subscribers save up to Subscribers are seated Choose the ballet you Work, travel, family commitments Our programmes are jam packed your subscription 20% on regular ticket first, so you’ll be love and build a – sometimes life gets in the way. with images, interviews and background information to help package quickly prices with a special guaranteed the best subscription package At the RNZB we offer you get the most of your evening and easily online. package price! seats in the theatre that suits you with our subscribers full exchanges at the ballet Multi City Package Just head to rnzb.org.nz Plus, as a subscriber you – and the earlier you book (free!) to another ballet in – subscribers receive free and choose which ballets save an extra 15% on any your subscription, the better option. our season, or in another programme vouchers to and which dates. additional single tickets your seats. Special access city, if your plans change. throughout the year for requirements? We can help. redeem at the venue. your friends and family. 13 29 May Venus Rising to 5 Jul TWYLA THARP, ALICE TOPP, ANDREA SCHERMOLY AND SARAH FOSTER-SPROULL Four celestial ballets, by inspirational and internationally renowned WATERBABY BAGATELLES choreographers, capture the spirit and power of Venus Rising – the Choreography / Twyla Tharp brightest of stars and herald of the dusk and of the dawn. Staging / Shelley Washington Twyla Tharp is one of the world’s greatest living choreographers, whose Music / Anton Webern, Astor Piazzolla, John Adams, Kevin works for ballet companies around the world, for Hollywood (Hair, Amadeus, Volans, Mickey Hart, David Lang, White Nights) and for Broadway (Singin’ in the Rain, Movin’ Out) have John Lurie transfixed a global audience of dance lovers for more than four decades.
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