In the world of Fokine

The stage is set for a brand new Firebird in Liam Scarlett’s choreography, and the British star choreographer Alan Lucien Øyen’s reinterpretation of Petrushka when the curtain goes up for the Norwegian National Ballet’s season opening: I Fokines verden (In the world of Fokine).
The legendary choreographer Michel Fokine created these ballets for Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes in the early 1900s. But it is the powerful music of Stravinsky’s masterpiece that has given the works the status they have today. The Ballets Russes were groundbreaking in incorporating the contemporary choreographers, composers, artists and dancers of its time. This was Fokine’s world.
Artists of today now explore these iconic ballets from a new perspective. The evening also holds in store three short works: Ingun Bjørnsgaard takes inspiration from Ravels Daphnis and Chloe, Daniel Proietto breathes life into a new swan in Cygne, and Ina Christel Johannessen brings in the story-teller Scheherazade from One Thousand and One Nights.

Ingrid Lorentzen’’s inaugural programme as ballet director at the Opera House. Based on Michel Fokine.