Choreographies by Robert BONDARA and Alexander EKMAN
PART I
HICCUP
Choreography, costumes and lighting by Robert Bondara
Assistant choreographer Evgeniia Meissner
Music: Jack Nitzsche, Michał Jacaszek (performed from the recordings)
World premiere: 20 March 2015, at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw (part of the Creations 7 programme, Polish National Ballet)
Dancers: Brayan Steven Valencia Sarmiento, Roman Semenenko
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Concept, choreography, direction, sets, costumes and lighting by Robert Bondara
Assistant choreographer Evgeniia Meissner
Music: Amon Tobin (performed from the recording)
World premiere: 11 May 2012, at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw (part of the Creations 4 programme, Polish National Ballet)
Dancers:
Soloist – Daria Verovka;
Duet I: Oleksandra Borodina, Mykhailo Mordasov
Duet II: Anna Chekmarova, Yan Malaki
PART II
CACTI
Choreography, sets and costumes by Alexander Ekman
Assistant choreographer / Stager Ana Maria Lucaciu
Music:
improvisation for string quartet (performed live);
Franz Schubert – String Quartet No. 14 in D minor, D 810 (Death and the Maiden): IV Presto, arr. for orchestra by Andy Stein (performed from the recording);
Joseph Haydn – String Quartet No. 16 in A major, Op. 9 No. 6, Hob. III:4: IV Allegro; Sonate V (“Sitio”) in A major from Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze version for string quartet, Hob. XX/1:B (performed live);
Ludwig van Beethoven – excerpt from the String Quartet No. 9 in C minor, Op. 59 No. 3: II Andante con moto quasi allegretto (performed live)
Lighting designer Tom Visser
Text by Spenser Theberge
World premiere: 25 February 2010 at the Lucent Danstheater, the Hague (The Netherlands)
Dancers:
Oleksandra Borodina, Roman Budko, Anna Chekmarova, Viktorija Galvanauskienė, Airisė Gudonytė, Ksenija Jermakova, Yan Malaki, Mykhailo Mordasov, Laura Carolina Figueroa Orduz, Tymur Orobchenko, Brayan Steven Valencia Sarmiento, Roman Semenenko, Iryna Suslo, Illia Temchenko, Daria Verovka, Kirstin Ann Zahradnick
Duet: Oleksandra Borodina, Roman Semenenko
Music performers:
String Quartet: Rasa Šimelionytė (1st violin), Alina Karinauskienė (2nd violin), Gintaras Stebuliauskas (viola), Matvej Goldberg (cello)