BRITISH BALLET CHARITY GALA HELD AT ROYAL ALBERT HALL on Thursday Evening, June 3rd, 2021 with the ROYAL BALLET SINFONIA The Orchestra of Birmingham Royal Ballet Principal Conductor: Mr. Paul Murphy, Leader: Mr. Robert Gibbs hosted by DAME DARCEY BUSSELL and MR. ORE ODUBA SCOTTISH BALLET NEW ADVENTURES DEXTERA SPITFIRE Choreography: Sophie Laplane Choreography: Matthew Bourne Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Gran Partita and Eine kleine Nachtmusik Music: Excerpts from Don Quixote and La Bayadère by Léon Minkus; Dancers: Javier Andreu, Thomas Edwards, Grace Horler, Evan Loudon, Sophie and The Seasons, Op. 67 by Alexander Glazunov Martin, Rimbaud Patron, Claire Souet, Kayla-Maree Tarantolo, Aarón Venegas, Dancers: Harrison Dowzell, Paris Fitzpatrick, Glenn Graham, Andrew Anna Williams Monaghan, Dominic North, Danny Reubens Community Dance Company (CDC): Scottish Ballet Youth Exchange – CDC: Dance United Yorkshire – Artistic Director: Helen Linsell Director of Engagement: Catherine Cassidy ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET BALLET BLACK SENSELESS KINDNESS Choreography: Yuri Possokhov THEN OR NOW Music: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 8 by Dmitri Shostakovich, by kind permission Choreography: Will Tuckett of Boosey and Hawkes. Recorded by musicians from English National Music: Daniel Pioro and Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber – Passacaglia for solo Ballet Philharmonic, conducted by Gavin Sutherland. violin, featuring the voices of Natasha Gordon, Hafsah Bashir and Michael Dancers: Emma Hawes, Francesco Gabriele Frola, Alison McWhinney, Schae!er, and the poetry of Adrienne Rich Isaac Hernández Dancers: José Alves, Isabela Coracy, Alexander Fadayiro, Sayaka Ichikawa, CDC: Corali Dance Company – Artistic Director: Sarah Archdeacon Marie Astrid Mence, Mthuthuzeli November, Cira Robinson, Ebony Thomas CDC: Artistry Youth Dance – Artistic Director: Kamara Gray RAMBERT2 SAMA NORTHERN BALLET Choreography: Andrea Miller 1984 (DUET, ACT I) Music: ‘John the Revelator’ by Nicolás Jaar Choreography: Jonathan Watkins Dancers: Loïc Ayme, Pierre-Antoine Bardot, Caití Carpenter, D’Angelo Castro, Comfort Kondehson, Judy Luo, Emma Spinosi, Jonathan Wade, Music: Alex Baranowski Archie White, Seren Williams, Verity Wright Dancers: Abigail Prudames, Joseph Taylor CDC: Theatre Peckham – Director: Suzann McLean BITTER EARTH Choreography: Kenneth Tindall Music: Max Richter / Dinah Washington – On the Nature of Daylight / This THE ROYAL BALLET Bitter Earth Dancers: Minju Kang, Kevin Poeung, Lorenzo Trossello SCHERZO CDC: RJC Dance – Director: Kathy Williams Choreography: Valentino Zucchetti Music: Sergey Rachmanino! – 2nd Symphony, 2nd Movement. Reduced Orchestration by Hans Vercauteren. Dancers: Madison Bailey, Sophie Allnatt, Leticia Dias, Bomin Kim, Sae BIRMINGHAM ROYAL BALLET Maeda, Mariko Sasaki, Gina Storm-Jensen, Yu Hang, Joseph Aumeer, Liam Boswell, Lukas Bjørneboe Brændsrod, Harry Churches, Leo Dixon, Taisuke CINDERELLA (PAS DE DEUX, ACT II) Nakao, Giacomo Rovero, Francisco Serrano Choreography: David Bintley CDC: Magpie Dance – Artistic Director: Alison Ferraro Music: Sergey Prokofiev Dancers: Momoko Hirata, César Morales CDC: Freefall Dance Company – Director: Lee Fisher FINALE ON FILM: THANK YOU Choreography: Simone Damberg Würtz and Daniel Davidson Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart – Overture from The Marriage of Figaro INTERVAL (30 minutes) Dancers of the eight companies BRITISH BALLET CHARITY GALA COMMITTEE MAKE A DONATION STREAMING £ 20 Dame Darcey Bussell DBE, To donate now, please open your camera app Watch tonight’s performance from Jeanetta Laurence OBE, and hover over this QR code. 18th June, 7pm. Available for one month. Angus Forbes, Paige Nelson, Or please contact us directly: Guy Perricone Buy your tickets and watch online at [email protected] Royal Opera House (www.roh.org.uk) SUPER7: Sarah Elliot-Cohen, The Royal Academy of Dance, charity no. 312826, or English National Ballet Ida Levine, Helen Mason, is kindly acting as the sole collection charity (please use for (www.ballet.org.uk/charity-gala) Charles Garland, your fiscal records). Share of proceeds: eighty percent equally Giles and Charlotte Toosey, among the eight companies, and twenty percent to the Please tell your friends! Naomi Leveson-Gower community dance companies and related charities. Thank you. “We are so pleased to have been invited to take part in this very special gala. We haven't been able to perform for a live audience SPECIAL THANKS TO... since November 2019, and we can't wait to be back on stage, particularly now, when visible representation in the arts is more important than ever.” CASSA PANCHO MBE Founder and Artistic Director, Ballet Black “I couldn’t be more thrilled that Birmingham Royal Ballet and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia will be so involved in this gala, arranged by the brilliant Darcey Bussell. It promises to be a wonderful evening of world-class ballet, supporting the arts and live performance, more crucial now than ever.” CARLOS ACOSTA CBE Director, Birmingham Royal Ballet “I am delighted that English National Ballet will be joining together with other UK ballet companies for this special gala. As we take to the stage with our colleagues and friends, it will be a moment to celebrate the creativity, resilience and determination of our art form and an opportunity to bring joy to our audiences.” TAMARA ROJO CBE Artistic Director, English National Ballet “We were thrilled when our patron, Dame Darcey Bussell, invited us to be part of this exciting celebration of British dance. It is an incredible opportunity for our industry to come together and celebrate how important the world of dance and the arts are in these challenging times. I can’t wait to see the dancers from all of the companies on SPONSORS AND PHILANTHROPISTS stage; it’s sure to be a very special evening.” Aud Jebsen, Dame Vivien Du"eld, Sir Lloyd and Lady Sarah SIR MATTHEW BOURNE OBE Dorfman, Jo Manoukian, Ben and Christine Wrey, and Lady Anya Sainsbury Artistic Director, New Adventures Hotelier: Nick Sievewright (Brown’s Hotel) Flooring: Steven Green, Jamie Stirling (Harlequin Floors) “Northern Ballet is thrilled to be part of this unique gala. This is an Website and donation technology: Derrick Keating (Bid-in inspired idea of bringing together the companies of the UK in a united Group / Park Publishing) celebration of our art form and proving the resilience and collective achievement of surviving this recent crisis, which has caused such disruption and emotional stress across our profession, especially to PRODUCTION TEAM those young people starting out on their careers.” Filming, editing and production support: Michael Nunn OBE, DAVID NIXON OBE William Trevitt OBE, Nike Von Schie (Balletboyz) Orchestra: Director, John Beadle (Royal Ballet Sinfonia) Director, Northern Ballet Technical and stage: George Thomson (English National Ballet) Stage managers: Jaclyn Fuller, Emma Turner, Johanna Adams Farley “We are really happy to join forces with artists and colleagues from (Royal Opera House), Fiona Findlater (English National Ballet) other leading dance companies, and very grateful for the opportunity Lighting: Andrew Ellis (andrewellislx.com) this performance gives us to share our work and support our Event manager: Kenisha Fuller (Royal Albert Hall) continued mission to inspire audiences around the UK and the world.” Technical supervisor: David Kett (Royal Albert Hall) BENOIT SWAN POUFFER Audio project manager: Ben Evans (Royal Albert Hall) Artistic Director, Rambert Lighting technician: Drew Bristow (Royal Albert Hall) Audiovisual equipment: Sungho Jeong (SFL) “We are delighted to present the adventurous and unique spirit of Runners: Stephanie Conville, Emily South (Morley College London) Scottish Ballet, alongside our friends and colleagues from the UK ballet companies. The evening is set to be a great act of celebration, showcasing the determination and resilience of the industry.” CREATIVE TEAM Presenting: Ore Oduba CHRISTOPHER HAMPSON Photography: Johan Persson CEO and Artistic Director, Scottish Ballet Public relations: Natasha Marks (Octagon) Script, slides: Peter Jones (Royal Opera House) “It’s wonderful for The Royal Ballet to be part of this unique event that Programme: Matthew Cunningham Darcey has so brilliantly devised. The pandemic has shown that we need the arts now more than ever and a positive outcome from this time is that it has brought UK dance companies closer together. It’s Many congratulations to everyone at the very special for our dancers to be sharing the stage tonight with so Royal Albert Hall in this anniversary year, many others in celebration of our art form.” with particular thanks to Craig Hassall and Matt Todd for all their support. KEVIN O’HARE CBE Director, The Royal Ballet www.britishballetcharitygala.com.