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Justin Peck – Fei Bo – Akram Khan

Triple Bill: World Wide Dance

Duration
2 H 30 min, 2 intervals (30min)
When
30.9.2022 – 22.10.2022
Where
Main Stage
Genre
Ballet
Price range
17-109 €
Age recommendation
7+
Good to know
There are scenes in the performance including bright lights

Three dance works in one evening

The Triple Bill takes you on a trip around the world. It’s an evening of captivating contemporary dance choreographies by three of today’s most talked about choreographers from three continents.

Dust by British Akram Kham deals with women’s relationships with their loved ones who were sent to the front during World War I. Fei Bo is a Chinese new generation choreographer whose work Earthborn showcases two different points of view, a man’s and a woman’s, which represent the modern and the primitive civilisation. The dynamic Heatscape by award-winning American choreographer Justin Peck has been inspired by the arts district of Miami.

heatscape

Energetic movement, beautiful music

Justin Peck’s choreography Heatscape has been inspired by the vibrant Wynwood Arts District and its life-sized murals. The production fills the stage with dazzling geometric patterns and young, romantic energy.

Peck’s fast-paced choreography and visual artist Shepard Fairey’s stunning street art come together in a multi-layered experience. The production invites the audience to take note of everything from movement to music, street art and emotions. The choreography for 17

dancers brims withenergy, released through explosive movements and the evolution and unravelling of complex patterns.

As his score, Peck has chosen the first concerto for piano and orchestra by the Czech early 20th century composer Bohuslav Martinů. The music wraps the performance into a myriad different melodies and atmospheres, closely followed by Peck in his choreography.

Justin Peck has worked as a choreographer since 2009, and as Resident

Choreographer at the New York City Ballet since 2014. Despite his young age, the 35-year-old Peck has created more than 40 dance works, which have been performed at the Paris Opera Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Miami City Ballet, Houston Ballet, and Joffrey Ballet, to name a few.

The captivating Heatscape had its world premiere at Miami City Ballet in 2015, and its European premiere took place at Dresden Semperoper Ballet.

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Semperoper Dresden has rented production to FNB.

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earthborn

A dialogue between indigenous peoples and global contemporary dance

The latest choreography by Fei Bo has been inspired by indigenous peoples and their close connection to nature and their native lands. Their existence forges fascinating contrasts with their environment. Their strong will to live in an extremely cold climate and the brightly coloured traditional costumes against the white snow are like small flames amidst grey ice. When such energy collides with nature, the land blossoms with new life.

Fei Bo is a rising star of Asian contemporary dance. His choreographies have been widely noticed both Asia and Europe. His choreographies combine

Chinese traditions and Eastern perspectives to Western forms of art, giving rise to interesting dialogue between different artistic genres and cultures. In the world premiere at the Finnish National Ballet, Chinese composer Alan Qin brings in live Sámi inspired music performed by VILDÁ. Fei Bo doesn’t want to draw lines between different cultures. Instead, he sees dance as a fusion that, in today’s globalised world, can incorporate a wide variety of cultural elements.

Fei Bo has his roots in a Chinese opera family, and he studied traditional Chinese dance as a child.

He started making his own choreographies at the age of 16, while studying contemporary dance at the Beijing Dance Academy. After graduating in 2002 he has worked as Resident Choreographer at the National Ballet of China.

Fei Bo’s collaboration with, for example, Akram Khan and Tamara Rojo, has brought him international critical acclaim. He has won several choreographer competitions, including the choreography awards of the Helsinki International Ballet competition in 2005 and 2012.

dust

Memories of war from the home front

Akram Khan’s dance work Dust was born to commemorate World War I. It’s a choreography full of pain and strength. The pounding music and the ambient lighting transport the audience to the home front right from the beginning of the performance.

Khan’s work focuses on the women who worked at an ammunition factory at the home front. They had to give up their

fathers, spouses and sons to the front, while knowing they manufactured arms to kill fathers, spouses and sons.

The impetus for the work was an interview with a soldier and a song found by composer Jocelyn Pook, recorded during the war. The haunting recording, made only a few weeks before the soldier’s death, became a part of Khan’s soundscape.

English National Ballet has rented production to FNB.

Creative team

Heatscape

Choreography
Justin Peck
Music
Bohuslav Martinů
Conductor
Per Kristian Skalstad
Backdrop image
Shepard Fairey / ObeyGiant.com, Shepard Fairey / ObeyGiant.com
Lighting design
Brandon Stirling Baker
Costumes
Reid Bartelme, Harriet Jung

Earthborn

Choreography
Fei Bo
Music
Alan Qin, VILDÁ
Conductor
Per Kristian Skalstad
Costumes
Kun Li
Lighting design
Mika Haaranen

Dust

Choreography
Akram Khan
Music
Jocelyn Pook
Conductor
Per Kristian Skalstad
Sets
Sander Loonen
Costumes
Kimie Nakano
Lighting design
Fabiana Piccioli
Dramaturge
Ruth Little

Cast

Heatscape

Soloist
Violetta Keller
Soloist
Phoebe Liggins
Soloist
Florian Modan
Soloist
Jun Xia
Soloist
Thomas Brun
Soloist
Hanako Matsune
Soloist
Claire Teisseyre
Soloist
Yuka Masumoto
Soloist
Ilja Bolotov
Soloist
Alfio Drago
Soloist
Rebecca King
Soloist
Hye Ji Kang
Soloist
Xiaoyu He
Soloist
Atte Kilpinen
Soloist
Martin Nudo
Soloist
Frans Valkama
Piano soloist
Risto-Matti Marin

Earthborn

Soloist
Claire Teisseyre
Soloist
Miao Miao Liu
Soloist
Sergei Popov
Soloist
Henry Grey
Singer
Hildá Länsman
Accordionist
Viivi Maria Saarenkylä

Dust

Soloist
Antti Keinänen
Soloist
Salla Eerola

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