中文節目單

 Saturday, 29th April 2023 at 7:30pm

Greenwood Theatre

55 Weston St, London SE1 3RA

The warmest of welcomes to joining our BALLET GALA 2023.

An unmissable performance, we will present a spectacular programme of some of the popular repertoire, and also some uncommon but very precious works.

Be sure to get your tickets for the perfect experience into this BALLET GALA.

Patron

ABE TSE

Producer

GEN QIN YAN

Scenarist  Artistic Director

TERRIE TAI

Music Director

GLORIA CHEUNG

Administrative Director

CHUN SHENG ZHANG

Stage Director

LIN LU

Andy Xu

Backstage Director

LIN LU

Sets & Lighting Director

Hao Xi Chen

Assistant Director

Yiwen LI

Marketing Manager

Joy Jin

Translation Manager

William Bradshaw

Herman E. Loginov

 Photographer

Peter Siu

Anthony Tang

Verdouxlens Photography

林鑫龍

曾麟

Cast

Claire Guntrip

Casey Nokomis

Laura Glare

Emer Lenihan

Grand Pas de Quatre is a ballet divertissement choreographed by Jules Perrot in 1845, on the suggestion of Benjamin Lumley, Director at Her Majesty's Theatre, to music composed by Cesare Pugni.

On the night it premiered in London (12 July 1845), it caused a sensation with the critics and the public alike. 

Pas de Quatre captured the essence of the Romantic style as the ballerinas danced with demure lightness, delicacy, and poise. The steps demand that each area of classical ballet technique is executed. 

Cast

Karya Duru

Swan Lake is a ballet composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1875–76. 

The scenario, initially in two acts, was fashioned from Russian and German folk tales and tells the story of Odette, a princess turned into a swan by an evil sorcerer's curse. 

In ballet, pas de trois is a French term usually referring to a dance between three people.

It's a trio of country boys and girls, and here's the first girl's solo

Cast

Laura Glare

Children Performers

The Nutcracker is an 1892 two-act "fairy ballet" , the music is by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,

The Nutcracker, a magical and exciting story aimed by children and adults. A young heroine, a Nutcracker turned Prince, a mice army and powerful Sugar Plum Fairy in a land of magic.

This fragment set on Christmas Eve at the foot of a Christmas tree in a child's imagination

Scenario by Terrie Tai

Cast

Gatsby

Jake Walker

Daisy 

Claire Guntrip

Tom 

Bruno Aversa

Jordan

Emer Lenihan

Wilson

Tom Bradshaw

Myrtle

Casey Nokomis

Corps de ballet

Gatsby an enigmatic multi-millionaire, he knew Daisy in Louisville in 1917 and is deeply in love with her. 

He spends many nights staring at the green light at the end of Daisy's dock, across the bay from his mansion.

Daisy is married to Tom Buchanan, the couple has recently relocated from Chicago to a mansion, Jordan Baker is a childhood friend of Daisy's. 

But Tom has a lover - Myrtle   

Gatsby throws extravagant parties every Saturday night. Gatsby’s extravagant lifestyle and wild parties are just toreunion Daisy, 

George Wilson with his wife Myrtle live in the valley of ashes, a grey industrial dumping ground

Wilson finds out Myrtle is having a lover, they are fight. Myrtle sees her lover's car, she runs towards it, waving her hands

 That car has struck and killed Myrtle...

Daisy was driving the Gatsby's car has struck and killed Myrtle, but that Gatsby intends to take the blame.

Tom tells Wilson, the driver of the car is Gatsby, Wilson finds Gatsby in the pool at his mansion and shoots him dead. He then fatally shoots himself.

Interval 20 minutes

Cast

 Zobeide

Laura Glare

Golden  Slave

Jake Walker

Choreographed by Michel Fokine

Music composed by Nicolas Rimsky-Korsakov

Libretto by Benois

Design by Leon Bakst

The Shahriyar, the Sultan of ancient Persia, is enjoying the pleasures and entertainment of his concubines and favorite wife Zobeide.

His brother suggests that Zobeide is unfaithful and recommends that they pretend to go on a hunting trip.

As soon as the Sultan and his brother have departed, the concubines bribe the Chief Eunuch with gifts and flattery to unlock the gates and free the male slaves.

Their release ignites an orgy within the harem. Zobeide chooses the handsome Golden Slave, and they fall into a passionate embrace.

To everyone's surprise, the king returns early and, in a rage, orders that all be killed.

After all have perished and only Zobeide remains. She begs his forgiveness, but eventually realizes the futility of it all. She then stabs herself, falling at the feet of the Sultan.

Cast

Bruno Aversa

Choreographed by Raymond Chai

Cast

Nicola Marchionni

Ballet "n the Middle, Somewhat Elevate" choreographed by William Forsythe, it electrified the ballet world,  that it has become Forsythe’s most famous work, 

The ballerinas in green leotards and black tights, insolently and insouciantly standing began to dance in a jolting crash of electronic sound.

Cast

Claire Guntrip

The Male Bluebird Variation is an excerpt from Act III of Sleeping Beauty. 

Considered the pinnacle of the Classical Era of ballet, this work was choreographed by Marius Petipa in 1890, to music by Peter Tchaikovsky, based on the fairy tale by Charles Perrault. 

The Bluebird Pas de Deux, a divertissement from the Wedding of Princess Aurora and Prince Desiré, depicts the soaring flight of an enchanted bird that lures Princess Florine from her castle turret. 

Cast

Laura Glare

Don Quixote is one of the most loved of the 19th-century classic ballets - its story is drawn from Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel and set to Ludwig Minkus's score. 

Don Quixote tells a story imbued with the lofty ideals of knighthood and chivalry, and never fails to touch audiences thanks to its skilful mix of comedy and romance.

It is also one of the most demanding ballets in the repertoire, and considered a major challenge for classical ballet dancers due to its high level of technical difficulty.

Cast

Karya Duru

Cast

Jake Walker

Tom Bradshaw

To reflect socialist reality in a ballet is a serious undertaking’, the story behind the Bright Stream may be a more intriguing drama than the fun but frivolous tale it tells on stage. 

Shostakovich’s three ballet scores, but the work got on the wrong side of Stalin and was banned. Its librettist was denounced in state newspaper Pravda, sent to the gulag and shot.

Although the original steps are lost, choreographer Alexei Ratmansky came across the score and libretto in the 1990s and decided to create his own version of this Communist comedy.

Set on a collective farm. The result is a rollicking romp that rides on Shostakovich’s dancing rhythms in a score full of melody and gusto. The story is a gentle farce, a jape to trick a husband with a wandering eye involving cross-dressing, identity swaps and a dog riding a bicycle.

Scenarist and Director

Characters

 "Retreating Figure" written by the renowned Chinese poet and essayist Zhu Zi Qing, this short essay describes how Zhu's aging and overweight father, dressed in chang shan, crossed the platform to buy him oranges for his train trip back to college and how, as a young man, he was annoyed that his father still treated him like a child.