Different shores

30.11.2011 Prague, New Stage of the National Theatre, 20:00

One show ONLY - complementing the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the Kylian Foundation in Prague. 420PEOPLE and their guests!

How else to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Kylián Videotheque than through dance which is what it is all about: Jiří Kylián and his work, his fame abroad, and his ties to his homeland (and vice versa). While everything today is revolving around the twenty-year existence of the videotheque and its growing collection, it is also about something else. It is testimony to an explosion of creativity, a spiritual approach to choreography, a vision of the possibilities inherent in the human body through the figure of the dancer. Kylián has unquestionably influenced several generations of dancers and contemporary artists. So for this reason, as with any proper celebration, guests, colleagues, and friends are present for the celebration. And for this reason (and at Kylián’s request) the ‘dance toast’ this evening will not just be directed at the manuscript but will also involve contributions from Cora Bos-Kroese, Václav Kuneš, and Lukáš Timulák, and twelve dancers will appear on the stage who together in total have spent of more than one hundred years working under the direction of Jiří Kylián.

As part of Different Shores quoted choreographic works include: Anonymous, Amoroso, Urtanz, 27’52’’, Bella Figura, Neonate.
Video: private archives, Jorma Elo, NDT.

The gala evening Different Shores is being held thanks to the support of the Kylian Productions BV, Korzo Theater
and BNP Paribas Foundation.

Anonymous

performers Cora Bos-Kroese, Sabine Kupferberg

Anonymous deals with the two worlds within us: the world we show and the world we hide.If we make our inner world public, the ‘secret’ will ultimately change and become public: a performance.Our secrets need to remain locked inside us, but sometimes we can make a window and attempt to look at them.

In co-production with Kylian Productions BV, Holland Dance Festival, Korzo Theater

Bella Figura

performers | Nina Botkay, Aurelie Cayla, Nataša Novotná, Rei Watanabe, Yvan Dubreuil, Václav Kuneš, Miguel Oliveira, Lukáš Timulák

When does the performing act start? – When we are born or when the curtain rises? - Does it all end when we walk off the stage – or is there no end to the performance? What is a masquerade? – The clothes we wear in the street or the stage costume? Between so-called art and artificiality – between the reality of life or fantasy - this twilight zone creates a tension whichis of interest to me. It is like standing on the edge of a dream. Standing in darkness and staring into a sharp light with closed eyes – doubting every bit of our so-called reality.The moment in which dream intrudes in our lives and life in our dreams – this is the point that piques my curiosity. Simply – the feeling of falling down in a dream and waking up with a broken rib.

choreography | Jiří Kylián
music | Giuseppe Torelli: Grave from: Concerto grosso, opus 8 nr. 6 (1698);
Giovanni Battista Pergolesi: Stabat Mater - Quando Corpus
costume design | Joke Visser

In coproduction with Kylian Productions BV

Neonate

performers | Václav Kuneš, Jussi Nouisainen, Nataša Novotná

Neonate refers to an infant in the first 28 days after birth. We like to examine every possible ‘result’ of a decision, which can have thousands of consequences, millions of possible scenarios. We are trying to imagine and play in our minds each of the results, often getting to a point where we are no longer ableto see anything clearly. And in the end, the events unfold in a way that we were not ready for, that we didn’t expect.

choreography | Václav Kuneš
music | Amos Ben-Tal

In co-production with 420PEOPLE
supported by Fondation BNP Paribas

Amoroso

performers | Aurelie Cayla, Yvan Dubreuil
Inspirováno „Fred a Ginger”.

What were the components that created the magic between these two people? Their complete trust, lightness, swiftness, balance, play, risk…‘Aurelie and Yvan’ in their world… their trust, balance, playing their game, or just knowledge of themselves as a couple, their lightness, finding simple enjoyment in movement.

choreography | Cora Bos-Kroese
music | Igor Stravinskij – tango (organ version) and fragments of organ music Olivier Messiaen
lighting design | Peter Lemmens

In co-production with the Korzo Theater

Urtanz

performers | Nina Botkay, Rei Watanabe, Lukáš Timulák

Lukáš Timulák, in this collaboration with the designer Peter Bilak, is interested in abstract language with the structure of music. The backdrop to the piece is Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate from the 1920s, a written phonetic arrangement that bridges music with poetry and the performing arts. It is humorous and dead serious at the same time, accurate and barbaric, historical and modern.

In a co-production with Korzo Theater

Duet from the ballet 27’52’’

performers | Nataša Novotná, Václav Kuneš

1 687.0 hours of rehearsal with individual dancers
182.5 hours working with the assistant to the choreographer in the studio
629.0 hours to make the music
46.0 hours to prepare and make the voice-recordings
229.0 hours in pre-production (meetings, décor, ateliers)
15.0 hours for musical research
438.0 hours for costume preparation & making the costumes
20.0 hours to light/stage the work
12.0 hours for photo shoots
93.0 hours of physiotherapy
900.0 hours of choreographer’s work
46.0 hours preparatory classical classes
51.0 hours of organisation around the new production (management)
35.0 hours making the programme book
20.75 hours making posters
14.5 hours for studio photos
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4 418.75 hours to make this production
The complete work is performed and viewed in twenty-sevenminutes and fifty-two seconds.

In coproduction with Kylian Productions BV

photo: Joris Jan Bos
portrait - Serge Ligtenberg
archive NDT