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Ravel by Cherkaoui / Verbruggen

Royal Ballet Flanders / Ballet Vlaanderen
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui & Jeroen Verbruggen (choreographers)
The Orchestra of Opera Vlaanderen

The French composer Maurice Ravel remains a source of inspiration for any choreographer. Artistic director and star choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and rising talent Jeroen Verbruggen take their vision of Ravel’s music to the stage. Jeroen Verbruggen, who as a young student dancer at the Royal Ballet School won the Prix de Lausanne, has drawn his inspiration from Ravel‘s Pavane pour une Infante défunte and from Ma mère l‘oye. Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui also translates Ravel into dance, opting for Pictures at an Exhibition, which was originally composed by Modest Mussorgsky, but which was later orchestrated by Ravel to become the most widely performed orchestration of this work: It has thus become truly canonical. It is a programme full of surprises with which the Royal Ballet Flanders/ Ballet Vlaanderen might just write a page of dance history.

Repertoire

Modest Moussorgski (orchestration Maurice Ravel): “Pictures at an Exhibition”; Maurice Ravel: “Pavane pour une Infante défunte”, “Ma Mère l'Oye”

Facts

Prog. No.
6371
Music genre
Ballet / Dance
Length
75 mins
Lenght short
71
Director
Andreas Morell
Producers
EuroArts Music in co-production with 3sat
Production year
2016
Format
HD