Evening Songs & Searching for Home
By Jiří Kylián and Stephan Thoss
Jiří Kylián's pure and refined Evening Songs are set to Dvořák’s a cappella songs of the same name, and performed live by a choir. Set to Steve Reich’s extraordinary music and percussion, Kylián’s Falling Angels is a mesmerizing study for eight dancers, a powerful work of the highest order. Finally, Stephan Thoss’s Searching for Home, an inner voyage into the multiplicity of the self, features 16 dancers in a piece inspired by the music of Philip Glass and the images it evokes. Magical, spellbinding.
Featuring a magnificent a capella choir performing Dvořák’s eponymous work, Evening Songs is a refined and poignant contemporary ballet. Masterful choreographer Jiří Kylián brings together a group of men and women who discover, at twilight, the wonders of nature.
With Falling Angels, Kylián explores the duality that drives artists, the opposition between their discipline and their pursuit of freedom. Steve Reich’s percussions structure Kylián’s choreography, a tribute to the dancers and their brilliance, vulnerability and humour. This struggle between a need to belong and a desire for independence is a dilemma that haunts us all.
Searching for Home by Stephan Thoss is an inner voyage into the multiplicity of the self. Rooted in a fascinating aesthetic, it interweaves classical ballet with German expressionist dance. Mysterious, evocative, magical.
EVENING SONGS
(25, 26, 3)
Valentine Legat, Célestin Boutin
Mahomi Endoh, Myles Lavallee, Sarah Kingston, Jérémy Galdeano
(27, 1, 2)
Emma Garau Cima, Rubén Julliard
Emily He, Raphaël Bouchard, Chisato Ide, Troy Herring
FALLING ANGELS
(25, 26, 3)
Esabelle Chen, Mahomi Endoh, Vanesa G.R. Montoya
Emily He, Chisato Ide, Diana Léon, Jacqueline Lopez, Christie Partelow
(27, 1, 2)
Renata Commisso, Emma Garau Cima, Sarah Kingston
Valentine Legat, Sahra Maira, Eline Malègue
Anya Nesvitaylo, Éléonore Thomas
SEARCHING FOR HOME
(25, 26, 3)
Sahra Maira
Marcin Kaczorowski
Jérémy Galdeano, Troy Herring
Vanesa G.R. Montoya, Jeremy Raia, Raphaël Bouchard
Eline Malègue, Christie Partelow, Valentine Legat
Jacqueline Lopez (25, 3), Renata Commisso (26)
Corwin Barnette, Célestin Boutin, Chen Sheng, Jean-Sébastien Couture, Jerimy Rivera
(27, 1, 2)
Emma Garau Cima
Andrew Wright
Rubén Julliard, Célestin Boutin
Sarah Kingston, Stephen Satterfield, Jerimy Rivera
Mahomi Endoh, Chisato Ide, Emily He, Diana Léon (27, 2), Renata Commisso (1)
Troy Herring, Jeremy Raia, Leigh Alderson, Myles Lavallee, Ryo Shimizu
A group of men and women who discover, at twilight, the wonders of nature.— Les Grands Ballets on Evening Songs
81 minutes including a short break and a 20-minute intermission
Steve Reich
Dvořák
Philip Glass
