Four One Act Ballets -from the ROH

Organised by : Chichester Cinema

Enjoy four short ballets in one evening with this quadruple programme from The Royal Ballet. Encore transmission by satellite from Royal Opera House.

Carlos Acosta focuses on the dramatic essentials of love, jealousy and revenge in his new production of ‘Carmen’. As well as choreographing the production, Acosta will dance the lead role.

Liam Scarlett has used Lowell Liebermann’s thrilling Piano Concerto No.1 as the inspiration for his similarly audacious choreography in ‘Viscera’. Debussy’s evocative score is the inspiration for Jerome Robbins’s ‘Afternoon of a Faun’, which depicts two ballet dancers as absorbed by their own reflections as they are attracted to each other.

George Balanchine’s Tchaikovsky pas de deux uses a fragment of music composed for the 1877 production of ‘Swan Lake’ for an eight-minute display of ballet bravura and technique. Dancers include Marianella Nunez, Carlos Acosta, Federico Bonelli, Laura Morera, Ryoichi Hirano, Sarah Lamb, Natalia Osipova, Steven McRae. Running time tba including intervals.

Tickets £17.50 (Friends/Students £15)

2015 170tbcmin