Les Grands Ballets presents

REQUIEM

Double bill featuring Andrew Skeels’ Requiem and Uwe Scholz’s Jeunehomme with Choir and Orchestra

A monumental work, Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem 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.

To complete this double bill, Les Grands Ballets is pleased to present Jeunehomme by Uwe Scholz. On the notes of Mozart’s concerto, the belated German choreographer pays homage to the beauty as well as the melancholy of the great composer’s works.

JEUNEHOMME

Uwe Scholz (1958–2004) was inspired by the joy found in the great Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s works to create this 21-dancer piece. It premiered at the Ballets de Monte-Carlo in 1986 and was added to the Ballet du Rhin’s repertoire in 1990. It centres around six couples from the corps de ballet and two couples who each perform a pas de deux. The work ends with a solo dancer playing Mozart himself. Uwe Scholz follows a very classical three-movement structure: a fast first movement (allegro), a slow second movement (andantino) and a faster finale (presto).

REQUIEM

Johannes Brahms’ A German Requiem is an elegy created following the loss of his mentor, composer Robert Schumann, and of his mother. It is one of the most deeply personal and spiritually uplifting compositions by any great composer, yet Brahms was still a young man in his early thirties when he wrote it. Inspired by the solemn beauty of the piece, choreographer Andrew Skeels presents a poignant work that explores the profundity of human connections. In this strong, meditative creation, he evokes the memory of those who leave but who stay with us nonetheless.

Salle Wilfrid-Pelletier
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