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Bella Figura

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• • Bella Figura Run-Time: TBD
  • Repertory:
  • Bella Figura
    Music:
    Lukas Foss, G.B. Pergolesi, Allesandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi and Giuseppe Torelli
    Choreography:
    Jiří Kylián 
    
  • The Second Detail
    Music:
    Thom Willems 
    Choreography:
    William Forsythe
    
  • Pärt I, II and III
    Music:
    Arvo Pärt 
    Choreography:
    Helen Pickett
    
• • Performance Schedule:

  • Thursday, Apr 28, 2011	7:00PM
    Saturday, Apr 30, 2011	2:00PM
    Saturday, Apr 30, 2011	8:00PM
    Sunday, May 1, 2011	2:00PM
    Thursday, May 5, 2011	7:00PM
    Friday, May 6, 2011	8:00PM
    Saturday, May 7, 2011	8:00PM
    Sunday, May 8, 2011	2:00PM

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• Bella Figura features an extraordinary collection of works by three of the world’s most exciting contemporary choreographers whose careers have overlapped in ways both influential and noteworthy.
  
  The program begins with William Forsythe’s The Second Detail, a company and U.S. premiere, which is an electrifying combination of classicism and jazz for an ensemble. Forsythe, one of the preeminent American dancers and choreographers, has created ground-breaking, exhilarating works which have been performed by the world’s finest ballet companies.
  
  Former principal dancer with William Forsythe’s Ballet Frankfurt, Helen Pickett, also presents three works. Pickett’s Pärt I, II and III are all set to music by Arvo Pärt. Pärt I,Tsukiyo will be a revision of her 2009 sensual pas de deux. Pärt II, Layla and Majnun, a world premiere, will be inspired by the centuries-old, Persian story of star-crossed lovers. Pärt III, Tabula Rasa will also be a world premiere.
  
  Nissinen headlines the program with a work by Jiří Kylián, one of Forsythe’s contemporary counterparts who trained with him at the Stuttgart Ballet and is now Resident Choreographer at Nederlands Dans Theater. Bella Figura is tangibly sensual in its adoration and reverence towards the human body and features partial nudity. It has not been performed by any other American company. The Los Angeles Times wrote of it, “in an increasingly dark world, [Kylián’s] dancers are beautiful enough to give almost anyone renewed faith.” Bella Figura will be an addition to Boston Ballet’s growing Kylián repertoire, which includes the five-ballet Black and White program presented by the Company in 2009 to rave reviews and again in 2010. 
   

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