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Floating Worlds
Skid
Choreography Damien Jalet
First performed in 2017 for the GöteborgsOperans Danskompani
Ukiyo-e
Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
World Premiere
Coproduction with Maison de la Danse, Lyon-Pôle européen de création, la Biennale de la danse de Lyon 2023, Eastman et Fondazione Romaeuropa Arte e Cultura
Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
19, 22, 23 and 24* November 2022 – 8pm
20 November 2022 – 3pm
Duration: approx. 2h35 with one intermission
*«Glam Night»
Family friendly
Sponsored by
Partenaire de l’art contemporain
Cast
Skid
Choreography Damien Jalet
Choreography Advisor Aimilios Arapoglou
Scenography Jim Hodges & Carlos Marques da Cruz
Costumes Designer Jean-Paul Lespagnard
Lighting Designer Joakim Brick
Music Christian Fennesz et Marihiko Hara
Choreography Assistant Pascal Marty
Rehearsals Master Manuel Renard
Dancers Yumi Aizawa, Céline Allain, Adelson Carlos, Zoé Charpentier, Quintin Cianci, Oscar Comesaña Salgueiro, Armando Gonzalez Besa, Da Young Kim, Ricardo Gomes Macedo, Emilie Meeus, Sara Ouwendyk, Juan Perez Cardona, Mohana Rapin, Luca Scaduto, Sara Shigenari, Geoffrey Van Dyck, Nahuel Vega, Madeline Wong
Ukiyo-e
Choreography Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui
Scenography Alexander Dodge
Costumes Designer Yuima Nakazato
Lighting Designer Dominique Drillot
Dramaturgy Igor Cardellini
Music Szymon Brzóska & Alexandre Dai Castaing
Singing & Dancing Kazutomi «Tsuki» Kozuki
Percussions Shogo Yoshii & Alexandre Dai Castaing
Electronic Music Alexandre Dai Castaing
Piano Johann Vaucher
String Trio Amia Janicki (violin), Natanael Ferreira Dos Santos (alto), Gabriel Eseteban (cello)
Choreography Assistants Dayan Akhmedgaliev & Pau Aran Gimeno
Rehearsals Masters Pascal Marty et Manuel Renard
Dancers Yumi Aizawa, Céline Allain, Pau Aran Gimeno, Valentino Bertolini, Adelson Carlos, Zoé Charpentier, Quintin Cianci, Oscar Comesaña Salgueiro, Armando Gonzalez Besa, Da Young Kim, Ricardo Gomes Macedo, Emilie Meeus, Sara Ouwendyk, Juan Perez Cardona, Mohana Rapin, Luca Scaduto, Sara Shigenari, Geoffrey Van Dyck, Nahuel Vega, Madeline Wong
Thanks to Kae Tempest and Domino Publishing Company Limited for the gracious authorization to use the text “Hold You Own”.
About
For the opening of the season of the Geneva Ballet, Skid by Damien Jalet, the company’s new associate artist, and the world premiere of Ukiyo-e by its director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, will bring into play the forces that give way to or resist the Earth’s law of gravity, by which our fragile existences sometimes rise and often fall. They both take the side of resilience, to exalt the scars left by the wound of the fall or the vertigo of height. Oscillating between verticality and horizontality, Damien Jalet’s Skid is presented on a platform inclined at 34 degrees, inspired by the Earth’s gravitational acceleration of 9.8 metres per second. With only two entrances into the angular space, above and below, the dancers draw lines of physical history between appearance and disappearance. Sometimes epic, dangerous, humorous or moving, the slope of Skid creates a chain reaction of physical and emotional events where the physical relationship with others is often the only solace against the call of the void. Ukiyo-e, or how to survive together in a world constantly in crisis? A meditation on our capacity for resilience, this new piece by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui is named after the “images of the floating world”, the famous artistic movement that emerged in Japan during the Edo period, in the demi-mondes of urban hedonism. The piece activates a work of balance in the face of impermanence. Beyond dualities, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui proposes to envisage bodies that do not end with fractures and limits, but rather to exalt these as augmentations of our person, like the Japanese technique of kintsugi that repairs broken porcelain with joints of pure gold. Alexander Dodge’s set will present a network of impossible staircases in which the dancers lose themselves. These mobile labyrinthine structures are intended to evoke both the ascent and the abyss. It is in this sequence of degrees, potentially enabling or disabling, that the bodies are called upon to unite, dialogue and contaminate each other. The performance will be accompanied on stage by Szymon Brzóska’s new compositions for string trio and piano and Alexandre Dai Castaing’s rhythmic, percussive and electronic creations. Gathered in Ukiyo-e, these worlds resonate with the ballet’s search for repair and transcendence.
Floating Worlds at La Plage
Check out all the various events connected with the production.
Thursday, 24 November
The Thursday, November the 24th date is a “Glam Night” performance where everyone is welcome! A Glam Night performance is simply an evening of entertainment at the Grand Théâtre where you are invited, if you wish, to dress up in your most extravagant or glamorous outfits. You will attend the performance and, if you feel like it, you are warmly invited to the after-party that follows; from 10 pm to midnight, in the revamped Foyers of the theater and with a DJ set provided for the event, you will be able to have a cocktail with friends and meet members of the ballet!
In partnership with Le Bal des Créateurs
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Saturday, Octobre 29 at 6PM
GTG x Les Cinémas du Grütli
Cinéopéra, as both a tribute to and a discovery of the silver screen, where four opera and ballet greats who will be on stage with us this season choose their favorite film to view and discuss
For this second rendez-vous of the season, the Cinémas du Grütli welcome the choreographer and new director of the GTG Ballet Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui to present Anna Karenina by Joe Wright.
Saturday, Octobre 29, 2022
At 6PM
At the Cinémas du Grütli
Saturday, November 5 at 11AM
Danse workshop about Floating Worlds
Come learn about the choreographic languages of Damien Jalet and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui choreographers of Floating Worlds in a contemporary dance workshop led by Fernanda Barbosa, teacher and former GTG Ballet dancer. No requirements to participate, just comfortable clothes and a good pair of socks! The workshop is open to all, including children 8 years old and up accompanied by an adult who is also participating.
Saturday, November 5
At 11AM
Entry CHF 15.–
CHF 10.– (up to 12 years old)
At the Grand Théâtre de Genève
Saturday, November 12 at 1PM
With the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève
The Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève opens to the public one of the last rehearsals of Floating Worlds and allows the public to discover the work of the dancers on some excerpts of the choreographies of Damien Jalet and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui which compose this program.
Saturday, November 12 2022
Doors opening: 12:45 pm
Rehearsal begins: 1pm
Free admission
At the Grand Théâtre de Genève
Thursday, November 17 at 6:30PM
About Floating Worlds
“An act or instant of floating”
Playing with gravity and the transience of bodies, the choreographer and dancer Javier Rodriguez Cobos and his alter ego musician Fabrizio Di Salvo take us on a journey through a list of intimate images, a succession of suspended moments for this apéropéra in ballet mode.
Warning: stroboscopic effects used during the performance
rom 6.30 pm
Entrance fee CHF 25
First drink included (except cocktails and champagne)
At the Grand Théâtre de Genève
Wednesday, November 23
Haven’t you ever wondered what it’s like on the other side, when the curtain falls on a performance? How does all the technical machinery work? What do the stagehands have to do to get things back into working order? Or maybe just bump into one of the stars of the show?
So let us raise the curtain on all this for you. With every production, we give our patrons an opportunity to come backstage with us, raise their eyes to the flies and take a good look at what’s behind the sets. It may be dark in the wings but there’s a whole lot going on there! And because it’s a really busy place, we can’t really do this more than once per performance run. You will need to book your visit beforehand, so don’t delay!
A member of the theatre staff who can answer all your questions and show you some of the very impressive features of our opera house takes you backstage for free.
After the November 23 performance, a member of the theatre staff who can answer all your questions and show you some of the very impressive features of our opera house takes you backstage for free.
The “En coulisse” tour lasts about 20 minutes, starts 15 minutes after the performance, is free of charge on prior reservation with our box office service by email [email protected].
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Légende photo
La mer Égée agitée de nuit, vue de la plage près de Skala. Lesbos, Grèce, 2015
© Paolo Pellegrin
Skid / Ukiyo-e © GTG / Gregory Batardon