Love and Fear

Ballet evening in four parts

1. Weill Suite
Choreography: KRZYSZTOF PASTOR
Music: KURT WEILL
Projection and Lighting Designer: BERT DALHUYSEN
Costumes: MACIEJ ZIEŃ
World premiere: 15/06/2001, Het Nationale Ballet
Polish premiere: 20/11/2009, Polish National Ballet

2. When You End and I Begin...
Choreography: ROBERT BONDARA
Music: PAWEŁ SZYMAŃSKI
Costume and Lighting Designer: ROBERT BONDARA
World premiere: 24/06/2009, Polish National Ballet

3. Afternoon of a Faun
Choreography: JACEK TYSKI
Music: CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Costume and Lighting Designer: JACEK TYSKI
Premiere: 21/01/2011, Polish National Ballet

4. The Green
Choreography: ED WUBBE
Music: JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Set and Lighting Designer: ED WUBBE
Costumes: PAMELA HOMOET
Choreographer's Assistants: MARLIES ACHTHOVEN, CAROLINE IURA
World premiere: 15/02/2006, Scapino Ballet
Polish premiere: 25/06/2010, Polish National Ballet

Four works in one ballet evening. The evening opens with a choreographic suite from Kurt Weill − Krzysztof Pastor's own project − a ballet fresco pulsating with energy that stimulates reflections concerning the changing fate of an artist, the symptoms of intolerance and the eternal yearning for love. Robert Bondara in his ballet When You End and I Begin... touches the phenomenon of the constant search but also of the impermanence of close human ties. A hundred years ago Afternoon of a Faun in Vaslav Nijinsky’s choreography became renowned as a picture of the awakening of youthful eroticism. Jacek Tyski also builds on the erotic but the reveries of his Faun wander much more boldly into the nooks ands corners of the subconscious mind. Toward the end we see an all male ballet The Green in which Ed Wubbe confronts the overawing power of a fragment of Bach’s Passion with the insignificance of the human being.

Polish National Ballet
Music from a recording.