What’s On

Cycles of Loss and Love

Mixed Bill

10th and 11th November, Aud Jebsen Studio Theatre, Royal Academy of Dance, 7.30pm

Tickets £10 – £60

Programme

Daniela Cardim, Nocturne
Music: Frédéric Chopin, Nocturne No.13 in C Minor

Wayne Eagling, War Women Awaiting
Music: George Frideric Handel, ‘Ode for St Cecilia’s Day’

Matthew Ball, (Re)Current
Music: Jean Sibelius, ‘Laetare Anima Mea’ (My Soul Rejoices)
Special guest performance by Royal Ballet Principals, Mayara Magri and Matthew Ball.

Interval

Jenna Lee, The Four Seasons
Music: Recomposed By Max Richter: Vivaldi, The Four Seasons

Following our exciting and extensive summer tour, NEBT is delighted to announce we are offering new performances in London on our first extended season. Cycles of Loss and Love is a mixed bill focussing on themes of compassion, empathy and support.

The first half of the programme begins with Daniela Cardim’s much praised pas-de-deux Nocturne, which will be followed by War Women Awaiting, a quintessential excerpt from NEBT’s ballet Remembrance, choreographed by Wayne Eagling with a libretto by Greg Billingsley. Set to Handel’s ‘Ode for St Cecilia’s Day’, Remembrance is a story of love, loss and emergence, inspired by dancer Marie Rambert and what was happening in London during The Great War.

“Eagling’s decades of experience and choreographic pedigree are clear in movement that sings.” Lyndsey Winship, The Guardian

Daniela Cardim’s Nocturne was a deeply expressive pas de deux to Chopin’s Nocturne No.13 in C Minor. Camino Llonch and Daniel Corthorn absolutely captured the underlying current of experiencing grief and the choreography echoed the music in all its light and shade in a series of beautifully crafted passages.” (Dance for You Magazine)

(Re)Current, chor. Matthew Ball. Photo by Daniele Silingardi
(Re)Current, chor. Matthew Ball. Photo by Daniele Silingardi

The first half concludes with a special guest performance by Royal Ballet Principals Mayara Magri and Matthew Ball, dancing Matthew’s new pas-de-deux (Re)Current, set to ‘Laetare Anima Mea’ (My Soul Rejoices) by Jean Sibelius.

The work explores how we are carried through life by its irreversible flow, this current pulls us through cycles of days, years or, in some beliefs, different incarnations. When we seem to transcend those recurrent patterns, especially with another person, it is worth swimming upstream to hold onto them.

Mayara Magri, Principal at the Royal Ballet. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.
Mayara Magri, Principal at the Royal Ballet. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.
Matthew Ball, Principal at the Royal Ballet. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.
Matthew Ball, Principal at the Royal Ballet. Photo by Andrej Uspenski.

The second half of the programme is The Four Seasons by former English National Ballet soloist and choreographer Jenna Lee, set to Max Richter’s recomposition of the famous Vivaldi score.

With special thanks to Simon and Glenda Weil and Maecenas for supporting our November performances.

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