Kings of Dance will come to London with their newly crowned queen, Svetlana Lunkina.
Roberto Bolle and Ivan Vasiliev will perform Roland Petit's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort, with ex-Bolshoi star Svetlana Lunkina joining them as a ‘Special Guest Artist'.
The full programme for the four London dates is as follows:
ACT ONE
LE JEUNE HOMME ET LA MORT
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach (Passacaglia in C Minor, BWV 582)
Libretto: Jean Cocteau
Choreography: Roland Petit
Staging: Luigi Bonino
Lighting: Jean-Michel Desire
Set: Georges Wakhevitch
Costumes: Karinska
Set courtesy of English National Ballet
First performance: 1946, Les Ballets des Champs-Elysees, Paris
Performed by: Ivan Vasiliev (19th & 21st March), Roberto Bolle (20th & 22nd March) – Svetlana Lunkina (19th – 22nd March)
ACT TWO
REMANSO
Music: Enrique Granados
Choreography: Nacho Duato
Set and Costumes: Nacho Duato
Lighting Design: Brad Fields
Staging: Tony Fabre
Organization & Production: Carlos Iturrioz – Media Producciones SL (Spain)
First performance: 1997, American Ballet Theater, New York
Performed by: Leonid Sarafanov, Denis Matvienko, Marcelo Gomes
ACT THREE
PROTOTYPE
Music by: Piero Salvatori produced by Fausto Dase
Concept & Choreography: Massimiliano Volpini
Costumes by: Roberto Guidi di Bagno made by Sartoria Farani
Co-directed by: Avantgarde Numerique and XCHanges Vfx Design
Visual effects by: XCHanges VFx
Performed by: Roberto Bolle
MOREL ET SAINT-LOUP from ballet PROUST
Music: Gabriel Fauré
Choreography: Roland Petit
Staging: Luigi Bonino
First performance: 1974, National Ballet of Marseille
Performed by: Denis Matvienko & Marcelo Gomes
TUE
Music by: Barbara (Songs: Drout, Sid' amour a mort)
Choreography: Marco Goecke
Assistant to Choreographer: Rolando D'Alesio
Performed by: Leonid Sarafanov
LABYRINTH OF SOLITUDE
Music by: Tomaso Antonio Vitali (Ciaconne in G Minor for Violin and Piano)
Choreography: Patrick De Bana
Performed by: Ivan Vasiliev
KO'd
Music by: Guillaume Côté (Piano Sonata no. 4 in F# minor)
Choreography: Marcelo Gomes
Performed by: Marcelo Gomes, Roberto Bolle, Denis Matvienko, Ivan Vasiliev, Leonid Sarafanov
The Kings of Dance will perform from Wednesday 19th – Saturday 22nd March, 7.30pm, at the London Coliseum
Box Office: 020 7845 9300 /www.eno.org
Photos: from top, Roberto Bolle in Le Jeune Homme et la Mort; Denis Matvienko & Marcelo Gomes in Morel et Saint-Loup by Valentin Baranovsky; Leonid Sarafanov
Graham Spicer is a writer, director and photographer in Milan, blogging (under the name ‘Gramilano') about dance, opera, music and photography for people “who are a bit like me and like some of the things I like”. He was a regular columnist for Opera Now magazine and wrote for the BBC until transferring to Italy.
His scribblings have appeared in various publications from Woman's Weekly to Gay Times, and he wrote the ‘Danza in Italia' column for Dancing Times magazine.
