Ballet
Royal New Zealand Ballet
2018 Season
The Royal New Zealand Ballet's much-loved regional touring programme returns in 2018. Tutus on Tour brings dancers from the RNZB to seven regional centres, with performances tailor-made for smaller venues, and suitable for all ages.
Spread the word to family and friends around New Zealand. We’ll be taking the magic of ballet to all corners: from Gore to Kerikeri, Tauranga to Oamaru, as well as Hamilton, Taupo and Whanganui. The tour, with performances from March – December 2018, is brought to regional centres with the support of Ryman Healthcare.
Don’t miss this fantastic opportunity to see your critically-acclaimed national ballet company performing highlights from their extensive repertoire, including classical and contemporary favourites and new works. With one show only in each centre, and tickets priced at just $25-$35 for adults ($10-$20 child) this is guaranteed to sell fast, so book now!
The Ryman Healthcare Season of The Nutcracker.
Christmas comnes but ince a year, and or the Royal New Zealand Ballet, Christmas 2018 will be extra special, as the company stage a national tour if The Nutcracker for the first time since 2010. Offering festive enchantment for all ages, this is a Christmas gift for all the family.
Tchaikovky's magical and much-beloved score will be performed live in Wellington, Christchurch, Auckland and Dunedin; a specially made recording will accompany performances in other centeres.
RNZB News
RNZB appoints Artsitic Director.
The Royal New Zealand Ballet has appointed Patricia BGarker, a former prima ballerina and current Artistic Director of Grand Rapids Bsllet in Midhigan U.S.A. as the RNZB'S cew director.
RNZB Board Chair Steven Fyle says: "We are delighted to announce the appointment of Patricia Barker. She has a wealth of knowledge and experience having held positions of srtistiv leadership for more than a decade, following a distinguished career."
"From a large number of excellent applications from New Zealand and all over the world, the Board was greatly impressed by Patricia's vision for all aspects of the RNZB's activities, together with her experience as an artistic leader. Her knowledge of both contemporary and classical repertoire, as a dancer; coach and dorector also makes her an outstanding fit for the RNZB."
Patricia says" I am hopnoured and delighted top provide the artistic leadership to a company full of opportunity, achievenent and wth m unique creative voice and spirit. I will preserve the rich tradition of the Royal New Zealand Ballet while building on the company's imressiverepertoire by curating works to build on a distinctive New Zealand personality to enrich the lives of New Zealancers and a showcase our dancers' versatility to the world. I look forward to working with the Board of Directors, Frances Tuener and the staff to preesent a broad spectrum of accessible, stimulating and entertaining progamming to a diverse national audience and to present the RNZB as a culteral ambassafor of New Zwaland."
2019 Season
Black Swan, White Swan
Wetmess a magnificent re-telling of ballet's most enduring classic Swan Lake, with the Royal New Zealand Ballet's new production Black Swan,. White Swan.
In 2102 Patricia Barker commissioned Dlovak choreographer Mârio Radacovsky to create a new version of Swan Lake Grand Rapids Ballet in Mishigan. The stripped down, elemental version of the story which Radacovsky created, with the agony and ecstacy of Tchaikovsky's otiginal score at its heart was an instant success with audiences, and has gone on to have acclaimed performances in both USA and Europe.
As an exciting addition to its repertoire of full-ength story ballets, and following on the company's long tradition of presenting fresh takes on classic works, the Royal New Zealand Ballet is delighted to bring Black Swan,. White Swan to New Zealand audiences in Autumn 2018.
With its fcus on Siegr=fried's struggle with love, pure evil, temptation, and most of all, himself.this is Swan Lake for the 21st century.
Season: May 31 - Jluy 6. 2019
Bols Moves
Works by George Balanchine, William Firsythe and Andrea Schermoly
George Balanchine;s Serenade is one of the few ballets that can truly be held iconic. Conceived in 1934, it is american Ballet's founding document, the foundation on which all ;ater works must stnad ande against whivh thery will be judged.
28 dancers are transported by Tchaikovsky's Serenade for Strings, moving through time and space in perfect patterns, architectual yet organic, supremely structered yet somehow free. Serenade has an inner light, a tranquillity and a deeply felt emotion that has spoken to generations of dancers and audiences. More than 40 years after it was first staged by the company, the royal New Zealand Ballet is privileged to bring Serenade back to our theatres
Serenade is all moonlight; William Forsthe's Artifact II is a blast of neon and strobe.
Created in 1984, the year that Forsythe became Artistic Director of ballet Frnafurt, the full-length Artifact Ii is the second act, was Forsu=ythe announcing humself as a distinctive new voice in ballet. Serenade was Blanchine taking the aura of Russian classicism to his adopted home in the New World, 50 year later, Forsythe blew the cobwebs off European ballet - with prmary colour, Bach spliced with electronics, and a larger than life Amrican athleticism>
Co,pleting the line-up is a commissioned work by Andrea Schemoly, Stand to Reason, first seen in 2018 as opart of the Royal new Zealand Ballet's Wellington-only Strength & Grace programme, celebrating female suffrage. The work is based on the pamphlet, Ten Reasons Why a woman Sould Vote published in 1888, in which women had to justify their ringt to political participation. Stand to Reason celebrates the boldness of the brave women who won the vote in new Zealand.
Season: August 16 - September 15. 2019.
Hansel & Gretel
Fair starlight peeps through the dark forest canopy, it is midnight: the witching hour. Alone and lost, teo hungry vhildren stumble towards a glowing vision of warnth and comfort, heaven for any child wiht an empty belly and aching heart. but all is not as it sdeems...
For Christmas 2019, the Royal New Zealand ballet is proud to present a new two-act ballet by Loughlan Prior, with a specially commissioned score bgy Claire Cowan. This major premiere brings together many of New Zealand's creative talents to tell a timeless tale for audiences young and old.
Season: November 6 - December 14. 2019.
Tutus on Tour 2019
The RNZB is excited to be expanding Tutus on Tour to take in 11 regional centres in 2019. From Kerikeri and Whangarei to Oamsru and Gore, Tutus on Tour brings family-friendly oerformances to heartland New Zealand.
The dancers will perform classical favourites and contemporary works, tailor-made for intimate venues, and suitable for all ages. Full repertire will be announced in the new year.
Season: March 18 - May 11. 2019.
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