In 2001, Swedish Johan Inger – a former dancer with the Royal Swedish Ballet and the Netherlands Dance Theatre (NDT) – created Walking Made based on Ravel's Bolero: a moving sequence of scenes organized around a movable wall full of doors, which examines the variability of our male-female relationships - the Hungarian State Opera House said in a press announcement.

The choreography created for NDT won the Lucas Hoving Production Award in the Netherlands, while in Italy it received recognition from the Danza & Danza trade magazine. It has been successfully performing in the program of the Hungarian State Opera Ballet since 2015, and its training was again led by the choreographer's sister, Carl Inger. 
 

The double cast also features Lee Soobin, García Carriera Claudia, Yakovleva Maria, Földi Lea, Carulla Leon Jessica, as well as Scrivener Louis, Timofeev Dmitry, Kekalo Iurii and Rónai András as partners of the dance corps artists.

Swedish born Alexander Ekman is one of the most successful Scandinavian choreographers of the past decade and a half. 

His witty self-reflection Cacti, created in 2010 for the youth ensemble of the Netherlands Dance Theatre, NDT 2, locks sixteen dancers on white square platforms, each with a cactus, while also holding up a playful, crooked mirror to the high artistic analyses of contemporary dance - they write about the piece, which brought its creator an international breakthrough and was also nominated for the Zwaan Prize in the Netherlands.

The piece has been in the repertoire of the Hungarian National Ballet since 2020, and in the autumn performances, Aglaja Sawatzki and Marmus Auguste, as well as Adrienn Pap and Yago Guerra, will dance solos, while Kamill Kökény-Hámori and Alberto Ortega de Pablos will present improvisations.

The works by Haydn, Beethoven and Schubert in the performance, including the string quartet "Death and the Daughter", will be interpreted by Elina Harsányi (1st violin, concertmaster), Géza Szajkó (2nd violin), Jenő Sörös (viola) and Endre Balog (cello) from the Opera Orchestra.

One of the most performed pieces of the Dutchman Hans van Manen's oeuvre spanning more than half a century is the 5 Tangos, presented in 1977, with which the creator pays tribute to Astor Piazzolla's new tango. 

In the pair etudes, the discipline of classical ballet meets the suppressed passion of tango. The work was presented by the Dutch National Ballet and is still a repertoire piece worldwide, and the choreography has been included in the Opera Ballet Ensemble's program since 2017, following its 1999 premiere. 

The solos in the October performance will be danced by Maria Beck and Gergő Ármin Balázsi, as well as Wakabayshi Yuki and Kiyota Motomi.

Bittersweet Comedies, which collects the choreographies Walking Mad, Cacti and 5 Tangos, will be shown four times this season: on October 11 at the Eiffel Workshop, then on the evenings of October 17 and 18, and on the morning of the 19th at the Ybl Palace on Andrássy Street.

More: 
Opera.hu

 

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