The Hungarian National Ballet is proud to announce its 2015/16 season. With over 100 performances throughout the season, dance fans have a wide range of selection to choose from new and repertoire productions of the only classical ballet company in Hungary (resident at the Hungarian State Opera).
Premieres:
Johan Inger – Maurice Ravel – Arvo Pärt: Walking Mad
Hungarian premiere – part of the programme Mad Dance! – Yet There Is Method In It (see below)
Wayne Eagling – Tamás Solymosi – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
world premiere
Jiří Kylián – Johann Sebastian Bach – Dick Heuff: Sarabande
Hungarian premiere – part of the programme White, Black – Opposites In Attraction (see below)
Jiří Kylián – Steve Reich: Falling Angels
Hungarian premiere – part of the programme White, Black – Opposites In Attraction (see below)
Marius Petipa – Sir Peter Wright – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty
Dóra Barta: Planet in Turmoil / Sándor Román – Solaris: The Martian Chronicles
Sir Elton John – Lee Hall: Billy Elliot – The Musical
Hungarian premiere
Repertoire:
Mad Dance! – Yet There Is Method In It
Jiří Kylián – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Petite Mort
Jiří Kylián – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Six Dances
Robert North – Bob Downes: Troy Games with Heroes / Troy Game with Amazons (on alternate evenings)
Johan Inger – Maurice Ravel – Arvo Pärt: Walking Mad
Rudi van Danztig – Toer van Schayk – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake
László Seregi – Sergei Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet
White, Black – Opposites In Attraction
Harald Lander – Carl Czerny – Knudåge Riisager: Etudes
Jiří Kylián – Johann Sebastian Bach – Dick Heuff: Sarabande
Jiří Kylián – Steve Reich: Falling Angels
Sir Kenneth MacMillan – Jules Massenet – Martin Yates: Manon
John Cranko – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – Kurt-Heinz Stolze: Onegin
László Seregi – Karl Goldmark – Frigyes Hidas: The Taming of the Shrew
Gyula Harangozó Jr. – Tibor Kocsák: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Special events:
Iván Nagy International Ballet Gala – 31 March 2016
Internationally renowned ballet dancer and several-time ballet director Iván Nagy passed away in 2014. After returning to Hungary, he had committed himself to the service of his homeland and worked with us again as a consultant to the Hungarian State Opera. He imparted a wide range of professional knowledge, enhancing the Hungarian National Ballet’s work and leaving a great empty space in our ensemble’s ranks with his demise. In his memory, we each year now organise an international ballet gala night, in which soloists from the greatest ballet companies in the world – including the Royal Ballet, the English National Ballet, the Bolshoi, the Paris Opera and the Dutch National Ballet – join the artists of the Opera's ballet ensemble to pay tribute to Iván Nagy's knowledge and humanity.
Pas de quatre '16 – 29 April 2016
On the special night entitled Pas de quatre ’16 the three top ballet companies of Hungary (Ballet Company of Győr, Ballet Pécs, and Szeged Contemporary Dance Company) join the Hungarian National Ballet to impress audiences with the latest modern choreographies.
DanceTrend '16 – 30 April 2016
DanceTrend ’16 gives the opportunity for contemporary artists and independent companies to show their talents as well as a young choreographer of the Hungarian National Ballet to present their new piece.
Hungarian National Ballet
General Director: Szilveszter Ókovács
Ballet Director: Tamás Solymosi
First ballet master: Marianna Venekei
Artistic Advisor: Maina Gielgud
