S. Eyal / G. Behar / O. Lichtik / J. Kylián / W. A. Mozart / W. McGregor / J. Talbot / J. White III.
KFM
Ballet evening in three acts
How can aggression, sexuality, silence, vulnerability, interdependence and eternal human beauty all exist side by side? How can the language of dance be both serious and zany at the same time? How is the human body capable of communicating extreme thoughts and emotions? These choreographies from Jiří Kylián, Wayne McGregor and the team of Sharon Eyal and Gai Behar will shed light on the answers. Bedroom Folk, first premiered in Amsterdam, and Six Dances and Petite Mort, both set to the music of Mozart, have been captivating audiences at the Erkel Theatre for years. Since its 2006 London premiere, Wayne McGregor’s Chroma has been adopted by major European and American ballet companies. In the 2019/20 season, it also becomes part of the Hungarian National Ballet’s repertoire.
“This piece originally choreographed for four men and four women was, in one of the HNB’s performances (…) presented for five women and three men, in that répétiteur and stager Olivia Ancona was inspired by Kristina Starostina, who danced female and male parts at the same time. (…) It is a welcome development that the company and its dancer spurred Sharon Eyal’s colleague to innovate further.” (Bedroom Folk, Krisztina Horeczky, Tánckritika.hu)
“Throughout the piece, the dancers are lighted from above, as if the choreography were taking place from a different perspective. This made for a space of light cut out from the dark background in which the figures appeared, creating a remarkable aura around the dancers.” (Bedroom Folk, Borbála Várkonyi, Kultúra és Kritika)
“Six Dances means that the Hungarian National Ballet’s repertoire has (once again) been expanded with another piece that will be enjoyable for audiences. The opulent choreographic material and quality dancing might even have been enough to convince apostates that classical ballet training is not necessarily the same thing as the simple aesthetic of the finely developed body and that beauty (whether flashing its lyrical, tragic or more upbeat face) has a place in contemporary art.” (Annamária Szoboszlai, Tánckritika.hu)
Bedroom Folk
Ballet in one act
General cast
- First girl
- Viktória Rohonczi / Yuka Asai
- Second girl
- Miyu Takamori / Emi Uehara
- Third girl
- Kateryna Tarasova / Artemisz Bakó-Pisla
- Fourth girl
- Ágnes Kelemen / Futaba Ishizaki
- First boy
- Dénes Darab / Iurii Kekalo
- Second boy
- Maksym Kovtun / Kristina Starostina
- Third boy
- Kristóf Morvai / Balázs Majoros
- Fourth boy
- Dávid Molnár
Credits
- Creator
- Sharon Eyal
- Co-Creator
- Gai Behar
- Sound artist and music
- Ori Lichtik
- Lighting designer
- Thierry Dreyfus
- Costume designer
- Rebecca Hytting
- Staging ballet master
- Olivia Ancona
- Company répétiteur
- Marianna Venekei
- Premiere
- Oct. 12, 2018
Petite Mort
Ballet in one act
General cast
- Conductor
- N.N.
- 1st girl
- Yuka Asai / Ildikó Boros
- 2nd girl
- Lili Felméry / Anna Krupp
- 3rd girl
- Artemisz Bakó-Pisla / Kateryna Tarasova
- 4th girl
- Karina Sarkissova / Tatiana Melnik
- 5th girl
- Emi Uehara / Ellina Pokhodnykh
- 6th girl
- Kristina Starostina / Elizaveta Cheprasova
- 1st boy
- Kristóf Morvai / Miklós Dávid Kerényi
- 2nd boy
- Balázs Majoros / Mikalai Radziush
- 3rd boy
- Gergely Leblanc / Dénes Darab
- 4th boy
- Gergő Ármin Balázsi / Carlos Taravillo Mahillo
- 5th boy
- András Rónai / Zoltán Oláh
- 6th boy
- Iurii Kekalo / Dmitry Timofeev
Credits
- Choreographer
- Jiří Kylián
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Set designer
- Jiří Kylián
- Costume designer
- Joke Visser
- Lighting designer
- Joop Caboort / Jiří Kylián
- Lighting/Technical adaptation
- Kees Tjebbes
- Répétiteurs
- Elke Schepers / Cora Bos-Kroese
- Company répétiteur
- Aliya Tanykpayeva
- Premiere
- May 25, 2013
Six Dances
Ballet in one act
General cast
- 1st girl
- Rita Hangya / Kristina Starostina
- 2nd girl
- Ildikó Boros / Yuka Asai
- 3rd girl
- Kateryna Tarasova / Emi Uehara
- 4th boy
- Jessica Carulla Leon / Ágnes Kelemen
- 1st boy
- Dénes Darab / Dávid Molnár
- 2nd boy
- Carlos Taravillo Mahillo / Balázs Majoros
- 3rd boy
- Miklós Dávid Kerényi / Dmitry Diachkov
- 4th boy
- Ievgen Lagunov / András Rónai
Credits
- Choreographer
- Jiří Kylián
- Composer
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Set designer
- Jiří Kylián
- Costume designer
- Jiří Kylián
- Lighting designer
- Joop Caboort / Jiří Kylián
- Lighting/Technical adaptation
- Kees Tjebbes
- Répétiteur
- Yvan Dubreuil
- Company répétiteur
- Marianna Venekei
- Premiere
- Oct. 20, 2001
Chroma
Ballet in one act
Hungarian premiere
General cast
Credits
- Choreographer
- Wayne McGregor
- Music arranged by
- Jack White III / Joby Talbot
- Orchestration by
- Christopher Austin
- Set designer
- John Pawson
- Costume designer
- Moritz Junge
- Lighting designer
- Lucy Carter
- Coach
- Jessica Wright
- Staging ballet master
- Antoine Vereecken
- Company répétiteur
- Edit Rujsz
- Premiere
- Feb. 15, 2020