Ballet
SWAN LAKE
Rigos / Tchaikovsky
Dress rehearsal 20 December 2019
Starts at: 20.00
Greek National Opera - Stavros Niarchos Hall
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
Conductor
Dimitris Botinis
Choreography, director, sets
Konstantinos Rigos, with references to the choreographies of Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov
Original music composition
Thodoris Regklis
Dramaturgy consultant
Alexandros Efklidis
Costumes
George Segredakis
Lighting
Christos Tziogkas
Associate architect
Mary Tsagari
Video
Konstantinos Garinis
With the GNO Orchestra, Principal dancers, Soloists, Demi-Soloists and Corps de Ballet
The great success of the Greek National Opera's Ballet, after the sold-out run of the previous season, returns for six more performances at Christmas time. Konstantinos Rigos, in his first choreography after assuming the directorship of the GNO Ballet, created a new reading of Swan Lake, in which excerpts from Petipa / Ivanov's classical choreography engage in a dialogue with his own new choreography which is based on a neoclassical concept.
Rigos transferred the work to the landscape of a dried lake with clear signs of environmental destruction, proposing a metaclassical reading. George Segredakis' impressive costumes and Christos Tziogkas' emotive lighting contribute to the creation of an otherworldly ambience.
Konstantinos Rigos notes: «In Swan Lake I present a version which flirts with the enchantment of classical dance in a modern and neoclassicaly interesting way [...] Heroes preserve the characteristics of the classical version, but their roles are presented as projections of the prince himself. I see the roles of the white and black swan as the two sides of one and the same person. The innocence and the need for self-destruction hidden in every man. Human existence is attracted by both the good and the evil. I think this is an ingenious feature of this work and one of the elements I want to bring out. Namely, how the two aspects of the human existence, the good and the evil, are presented
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Event
Date
Friday December 20,
2019
time: 19.00
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