Ballet, Danza, El Cascanueces, Ballet de Kiev, Palau Altea, Piotr Tchaikovsky, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Marius Petipa, Tchaikovsky, Petipa
El Cascanueces
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Monday, 30th december | 20:00h
KIEV BALLET, DANCING FROM THE HEART
Donation to UNICEF to support its work in the UKRAINE emergency of €1 for each ticket sold.
Monday, 30th december | 20:00h
KIEV BALLET, DANCING FROM THE HEART
Donation to UNICEF to support its work in the UKRAINE emergency of €1 for each ticket sold.
EL CASCANUECES
MUSIC: Piotr Tchaikovsky
LIBRETTO: Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
COREOGRAPHY: Marius Petipa
BALLET DE KIEV: Viktor Ishchuk, the founder.
SOLOLISTS ON TOUR
Elena Germanovich
Evhen Lagunov
Yevhen Svetlista
Uladzislav Pazlevich
Veranika Auchynnikava
Aleksandra Berozkyna
BALLET DE KIEV
The year 2022 has been marked in the memory of all of us with red ink that, with thick lines, describes the tragedy that represents a war and, especially for ballet artists who one day before the start were preparing to go on stage in front of a crowded theatre with an orchestra in the pit tuning. The year 2022 has also been the opportunity to act for the first time in Spain and Portugal. In 2023, the Kiev Ballet will return to the most prestigious stages and will visit again the main cities of Spain and Portugal.
It was 2017 when the famous solo dancer of the Kiev Opera House, Viktor Ishchuk, manages to realize a long-cultivated dream, the creation of a stable and young company, that it would bring together the most prominent stars of all Ukraine and could present to the world the talent, mastery and professionalism of the artists of that country. Among its members, the Kiev Ballet has several soloists from the Kiev Opera and Ballet Theatre.
His first performances get the support of the main names of the Ukrainian scene and are immediately invited by the most important world theaters, having since performed more than 500 performances. The numerous tours made have taken them to the best scenarios of Switzerland, Germany, France, Poland, Croatia, China, Ukraine, Mexico and a long etc.
The Kiev Ballet maintains among its main objectives the care of the traditions and essence of the purest classical ballet, each performance being a feast for the senses by the sobriety of the choreographies, the perfection of each and every one of its lines, the virtuosity of their soloists and the showiness and grandeur of their sets and costumes, all designed exclusively by the best masters of the Kiev workshops.
Throughout these years they have traveled much of the world representing the main classic titles, as well as original choreographies. Swan Lake, The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote, Giselle, Carmen, Scheherazade, Les Sylphides, Cinderella, Zorba the Greek, Eyes wide Shut, etc. are part of his usual repertoire.
The Kiev Ballet is based at the International Centre for Culture and Arts in Kiev, Ukraine.
The Nutcracker is a two-act ballet, originally choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov with a score by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The libretto is an adaptation of Hoffmann’s tale «The Nutcracker and the Mouse King». It premiered at the Mariinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg on 18 December 1892, in double session with Tchaikovsky’s opera Iolanta.
FIRST ACT
In an ancient German city, in the early nineteenth century on Christmas Eve people prepare for the feast. Among the guests at the Stalbaum house is an old crackpot, toy inventor and friend of the children, Drosselmeyer. The living room of the house is decorated for the party. Guests are arriving. Drosselmeyer arrives with gifts. The children rush in. They start playing blind hen. Drosselmeyer participates in the game and blindfolds. After the game, the dances begin. Drosselmeyer, disguised as a magician makes a small theatrical show in which the Mouse King wants to kidnap the Princess, but the brave Nutcracker defeats him and saves the Princess. Drosselmeyer has prepared many surprises for children, he teaches them a clown with a rope motor, a doll... But Masha liked the Nutcracker the most. Franz tries to remove it and accidentally breaks it. Drosselmeyer fixes it. Masha caresses her favorite toy. The clock is 10, it’s late. The dance is over, the lights go out…
The night. The Christmas tree room is illuminated by the moonlight, it seems mysterious, full of magical secrets. Overcoming fear, Masha has come to see the "sick" Nutcracker, hugs him and sleeps. Masha sees in her dream how mice fill the room, guided by their King. The brave Nutcracker calls the lead soldiers to war with the mice. But the forces of the mice are superior and in the end the Nutcracker has to face only the King of the mice and his army.When everything seems lost, Masha, overcoming fear, hits the King with his shoe and thus saves the Nutcracker, who ends up defeating the King of Mice; they flee and Drosselmeyer turns the Nutcracker into a beautiful Prince. The walls of the house disappear and we find ourselves in the vast territory of the snow, in the magical run the light snowflakes move. The Nutcracker-Prince invites Masha to the magical palace of his dreams.
SECOND ACT
Masha and the Prince sail through the magical Kingdom. They meet little angels and dolls, while the orchestra of the kindly dwarves plays beautiful melodies. Masha and the Prince are happy: they have reached the Kingdom of their dreams. Drosselmeyer appears, the Nutcracker is in their hands. ¡ It can’t be that everything was just a dream!... With his magic wand, Drosselmeyer turns the dream into reality.
DURATION: 1 Part 39’ – Rest – 2 Part 42’
RECOMMENDED AGE: For all audiences.