At the instance of the “Romantic Evolution/s” ballet night time, the premiere of Alex Martinez’s “Ether” with the Hamburg Ballet on the Hamburg State Opera gained nice applause. Martinez, major soloist of the Hamburg Ballet since 2021, reveals haunting, fresh imagery for the subjects set by way of Auguste Bournonville in his vintage “La Silphide.”
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Bournonville’s personality of the Scottish farmer James, who falls in love with an airy air spirit on his marriage ceremony day, abandons his fiancee and follows her into the wooded area, turns into in Martinez a searcher for that means, dancing Jack Bruce, in a depressing international characterised by way of environmental destruction and world conflagration.
On a barren degree, which Martinez additionally supplied with a tree trunk, an armchair and a staircase in a sq. phase, Xue Lin as a sylph and Gabriel Barbosa as a Sylpho seem along a number of mystics who in flip stumble upon a gaggle of mountaineers.
Expressive workforce photographs expand to the dramatic tune of the Latvian composer Peteris Vasks. Hayley Web page and Florian Paul carry out an intense pas de deux to the tune of Arvo Perth.
The existential, fresh choreography supplies a powerful aesthetic distinction to the very classical, traditionally staged piece “La Silphide” by way of Auguste Bournonville, whose Hamburg premiere within the first a part of this system is in response to the Royal Danish Ballet’s 1836 premiere. The subtle Ida Pretorius shines as Los angeles Sylphide and the robust jumper Mathias Oberlin as James and Francesco Cortese because the rival Gurn.
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