Hungary Festival Ballet. Ivan Marko: Joseph and his Brothers

Vernal victim

The Company was founded by the well-known choreographer, Andrei Petrov, in 1990. They reside in the Kremlin Palace that is located on the territory of the Kremlin in Moscow. The Company defines its artistic mission as one that is based on masterpieces of the classical legacy and their creative further development. Their repertoire comprises the oeuvres of the outstanding old masters (M. Petipa, A. Gorski, L. Ivanov) as well as recent ballets of J. Grigorovich, V. Vasziljev, A. Petrov. The pieces are directed by those leading stage artists, who otherwise are considered as trend-setters of the new expression formulas of the present day theater: Stanislav Benediktov and Olga Polyanskaya, Marina Sokolova and Boris Messerer, Viktor and Rafael Volski, Vladimir Arefev and Boris Krasnov.

Tamás Juranics: Splinters Stage-design and costumes: Zsuzsa Molnár Splinters, bits and pieces and fragments. Fragments of destinies, loves and lives that so often determine the whole, at times our whole life. A night, when the unreal plays a real role, thus enhances the chance for accidental occurrences. I do not wish to speculate on the big questions of life, nor to draw a lesson at the end of the show; my intention is to simply highlight the bits and pieces of human destinies, true and false loves, desires, every-day Mandarins, disappointments, broken hearts – splinters. Tamás Juranics.

“Three apaches at their den force a young girl to stand by the window and attract passing men into the room, men who will later be brutally robbed by them. There are three seduction scenes. The first man to be lured up is a penniless old man. The second is none better. However, the third man is a rich Chinese. The catch is good, the girl tries to dilute him with her dance and the Mandarin’s zest for the girl is aroused, he falls passionately in love with the prostitute. The apaches grab and rob him, stab him with a sword, smother and strangle him, but without avail: the Mandarin in love remains fixated on the girl. To save the situation, by a womanly instinct, the prostitute agrees to fulfill the Mandarin’s desire: The Mandarin and the prostitute embrace passionately and with his longing fulfilled, he dies in an ecstasy of love.”

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