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The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering, from the Royal Ballet.
25th February 2020 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm
The Cellist
Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and is much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Royal Ballet Main Stage is the momentous life and career of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré.
Choreography: Cathy Marston
Scenario: Cathy Marston and Edward Kemp
Music: Philip Feeney
Cast
- Dancer: Lauren Cuthbertson
- Dancer: Matthew Ball
- Dancer: Marcelino Sambé
- Concert Master: Sergey Levitin
Dances at a Gathering
Jerome Robbins’s elegant and elegiac classic forms the second part of the programme. This exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to music by Chopin, is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention.
Choreography: Jerome Robbins
Music: Fryderyk Chopin
Costume designer:Joe Eula
Cast
- Dancer: Luca Acri
- Dancer: Marianela Nuñez
- Dancer: Francesca Hayward
- Dancer: Yasmine Naghdi
- Dancer: Fumi Kaneko
- Dancer: Laura Morera
- Dancer: Alexander Campbell
- Dancer: William Bracewell
- Dancer: Federico Bonelli
- Dancer: Valentino Zucchetti
- Solo piano: Robert Clark
Approximate running times:
Dances at a Gathering: 1 hour 5 minutes
Interval: 30 minutes
The Cellist: 1 hour 5 minutes