Na Floresta. Prelude. White Darkness (Mikhailovsky Theatre, ballet)

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Genre: Ballet | Age restriction: 16+ | Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Credits

Music by Heitor Villa-Lobos, Wagner Tisso

Choreography, Staging, and Costumes: Nacho Duato

Stage Design: Walter Nobbe

Lighting Designer: Nicolás Fischtel

Costume Technology: Alla Marusina

Choreographer’s Assistants: Tony Fabre, Gentian Doda

Répétiteurs: Elvira Khabibullina, Kirill Myasnikov

Description

World première: The Hague, NDT-2, 15 February 1990
Russian première: Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko State Academic Music Theatre, 24 July 2009
Première at the Mikhailovsky Theatre: 23 May 2013

One of his best early works, Na Floresta made Nacho Duato world famous. In this one-act ballet, the Spanish choreographer penetrates the savage mystery of the Amazonian Selva. By analogy, the bustling variety of nature represents the ocean of human feelings. Its metaphysical currents again and again give rise to a new and unrestrained tide of life, circumscribing its flow in an eternal cycle.