BER. Ballet Triple bill

Bondara / Ekman / Rimeikis

Performances

World premiere: 14 December 2020, Poznań Opera House
A Poznań Opera House production

BER – the energy of contemporary dance. One of the most important new ballet productions whose premiere was watched online by 20,000 people. Three choreographers, three visions of movement, three takes on our times, and just one question: what is dance? Get to know the genotype of our present era.

B is for Bondara – Polish choreographer quickly gaining prominence on the dance scene, whose choreographies are shown at leading festivals in Poland and abroad. E is for Ekman – an international star of present-day choreography who has collaborated with more than forty companies around the world. R is for Rimeikis – the most accomplished choreographer of the young generation in Lithuania. BER stands for the mechanism that repairs damaged DNA; a way of introducing a breath of fresh air, dynamism, energy, rhythm; an impulse to rediscover the pleasure coming from movement – both for the creators and the audience.

TAKE ME WITH YOU


Ballet of the Poznań Opera House

choreography and set design:
Robert Bondara


music:
Radiohead

Daydreaming (A Moon Shaped Pool, 2016), True Love Waits (I Might Be Wrong: Live Recordings, 2001), The Butcher (2011) Reckoner (In Rainbows, 2007), Staircase (Supercollider / Staircase, 2011)

lighting design:
Maciej Igielski


choreologist:
Helena van Riemsdÿk

EPISODE 31

Ballet of the Poznań Opera House

choreography, set design and video projections:
Alexander Ekman


répétiteur:
Fernando Morales Troya


music:
Mikael Karlsson, Ane Brun


musical interjections:
Erik Satie, Gymnopédie No. 1

fragments of poems read out by Elinor Basescu


lighting design:
Nicole Pearce


costumes and makeup:
Luke Simcock


assistant lighting designer:
Manuel da Silva


video production:
Karolina fender Noińska // Jajkofilm

BLIND WORDS


Ballet of the Poznań Opera House

choreography and set design:
Martynas Rimeikis


assistant choreographer:
Julija Stankevičiūtė


music:
Steve Reich, Lawrence English, Meredith Monk


assistant costume designer:
Karolina Grzeszczuk


Steve Reich
Music for Pieces of Wood: for 5 pair of tuned claves
Performed under permission of Universal Edition A.G.

Lawrence English
Watching it unfold from the album A Colour of Autman

Meredith Monk
The Walking Song from the album Volcano Songs: Duets (1993) / Meredith Monk The Walking Song performed by Katie Geissinger Environs 2 from the album On Behelf of Nature (2016)

Performed are under permission of Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Ltd.

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Ballet of the Poznań Opera House

Alexander Ekman's Episode 31 is presented by Stepping Grounds Arts/Culture Management.

Sponsors

  • Spektakl współorganizowany przez Instytut Muzyki i Tańca w ramach programu „Zamówienia choreograficzne 2020”

  • Wsparcie ze środków Funduszu Przeciwdziałania COVID-19

  • Partnerzy Akademii Operowej

  • Partnerzy Teatru Wielkiego - Opery Narodowej

  • Partner technologiczny

  • Helf in collaboration with the National Institute of Music and Dance in Warsaw as part of the 2020 Choreographic Commissions programme

  • Patroni medialni

  • Supported by the Covid-19 Relief Fund

  • Partner of the premiere

  • Partners of the Opera Academy

  • Partners of Teatr Wielki – Polish National Opera

  • Technological partner

  • Media patrons

  • Partner of the event

  • Partners of the reception