THE DREAM / SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS / MARGUERITE AND ARMAND

Showings

Cinema Arts Centre - Cinema 1 Thu, Jul 6, 2017 7:00 PM

Description

The Royal Ballet
THE DREAM / SYMPHONIC VARIATIONS /
MARGUERITE AND ARMAND

Thursday, July 6 at 7 pm | Members $11 | Public $16

Frederick Ashton was Founder Choreographer of The Royal Ballet. The Royal Ballet celebrates this heritage through a mixed programme. The Dream (1964) is an enchanting adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream to music by Mendelssohn. Symphonic Variations (1946) is Ashton’s first masterpiece, and a breathtaking, abstract work on the beauty of pure movement. Marguerite and Armand (1963), inspired by the celebrated dance partnership between Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, is a tragic love story of great lyric beauty. 2 hours 55 minutes, including two intervals