The Long Christmas Dinner
based on the play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, music by Antonio Vivaldi
The performance was created with the financial support of patron Volodymyr Filippov
“He and She – the beginning of a relationship, a first date. It would seem that everything about this has already been said, played, sung, danced… Chopin’s piano preludes. How many times has this immortal music become the basis for stories about love? But therein lies the magic of art, where every author, touching upon timeless themes and subjects, draws new meanings and emotions from them – Orpheus and Eurydice, Romeo and Juliet, Chopin and George Sand… Yet my new ballet “Nine Dates” is not about them. The characters of the performance are an ordinary couple trying to begin their relationship. The first steps towards one another – touching, sometimes absurd, sometimes tragic. A mini-encyclopedia of first dates without needless moralizing and didacticism. Just two human solitudes trying to be together, and simply Chopin’s music”, – says Radu Poklitaru, principal choreographer of the “Kyiv Modern Ballet” Academic Theatre, about the production.
Anna Ipatieva
costume design
Anatoliy Kozlov
assistant choreographer Ukraine’s Honoured Artist
Serhii Kon
assistant choreographer
Olena Antokhina
lighting designer
Alexander Kuriy
sound producer Honoured Arts Figure of Ukraine
She
He
Old woman
Paramour
ballet in one act · music by F.Chopin
ballet in one act · Irish folk music and the Renaissance tunes
based on the play of the same name by Thornton Wilder, music by Antonio Vivaldi