TranscenDanses Season The Joffrey Ballet Directed by Ashley Wheater
On the agenda:
Midsummer Night's Dream
Created by the Royal Swedish Ballet in 2015 and the Joffrey Ballet in 2018
French premiere
Alexander Ekman | choreography and set design
Mikael Karlson | music
Anna von Hausswolff | singing
Nicolas Brommare | percussion
Jorge Ivars | piano
Bregje Van Balen | costumes
Linus Fellbom | lights
Following his success here with his breathtaking Swan Lake, Alexander Ekman offers us his vision of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. This ballet, once again powerful in imagery and emotion, set to music by Mikael Karlson, explores the energy and mysteries of the summer solstice night in the Scandinavian tradition. The Joffrey Ballet was founded in the 1950s in Chicago by Robert Joffrey, after whom it is named. Numerous creations by American choreographers (Alvin Ailey, William Forsythe, Mark Morris, Twyla Sharp, and others) established its reputation, which has been further enriched by subsequent generations, of whom Alexander Ekman is one of the most inventive.
TranscenDanses is a co-production of Productions Internationales Albert Sarfati | Théâtre des Champs-Élysées.