FukuokaLes Grands Ballets offers a series of new webcast works LiveEvents June 27, 2021 1263 Les Grands Ballets continues its digital offer with 3 new works! Available until July 13, 2021 Three new pieces are added to the company’s digital repertoire: Requiem by Montreal based Andrew Skeels (5th Movement), Fukuoka by the up-and-coming Spanish choreographer Marcos Morau and Spring Waters, a piece by choreographer and former principal dancer of the famous Bolshoi Ballet, Asaf Messerer. Spring Waters By choreographer Asaf Messerer Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff, ‘Spring Waters’ Created in 1959 by Asaf Messerer, choreographer and former chief soloist with the celebrated Bolshoi Ballet, Springs Waters is an energetic and ethereal pas de deux that conjures up the first days of spring. Recognized for its highly athletic factor, this short piece features the agility of Les Grands Ballets’ dancers in a choreography that is literally astounding. Fukuoka By Marcos Morau with Lorena Nogal and Marina Rodriguez Music: Miguel Poveda, Jose Galván, Manolo Sevilla & Rafael Rodriguez, Paco de Lucia Fukuoka presents the essence of language that choreographer Marcos Morau has been developing over the last few years with his company, La Veronal. For this piece, Morau brings a flamenco influence together with an abstract energy, rejecting any narrative discourse and allowing the two performers to completely drown in the shape. The contradiction of flamenco and contemporary forms, the clash of two worlds that nourish and complement each other: an exercise in style that brings the public closer to the universe of the choreographer. REQUIEM, 5th movement By choreographer Andrew Skeels Music : Johannes Brahms A monumental work, the German Requiem of Johannes Brahms is an elegy created following the loss of his mentor, composer Robert Schumann, and of his mother. Inspired by the solemn beauty of the piece, choreographer Andrew Skeels presents a poignant work that explores the profundity of human connections. ”The dance is inspired by Brahm’s text for the 5th movement, which speaks of the importance of human connection. The text conjures images of how vital touch, empathy and bonding are to the human state. These states are explored through two characters in this section. ”- Andrew Skeels, choreographer, on the 5th Movement of Requiem www.grandsballets.com
