Ballet: Sérénades

In its most common sense, a serenade is a piece of music composed in honor of a person and performed, as its name suggests, in the evening, usually outdoors - it takes the name of aubade when performed at daybreak. As far back as the Middle Ages, passionate lovers and inveterate seducers sang of their amorous troubles under the windows of their sweethearts, accompanied by an instrument, preferably a stringed one such as the mandolin, or an ensemble when they had accomplices. It became a musical genre in its own right, and Tchaikovsky seized upon it in 1880 with his Serenade for Strings in C major, on which Balanchine choreographed his first American ballet, Serenade, in 1934, combining all the key elements of neoclassicism: sober lines, clear gestures and velocity of dance.


In a continuum of three choreographic creations, Bruno Bouché (Artistic Director of CCN-Ballet de l'OnR), Gil Harush and Brett Fukuda (dancer-choreographer of CCN-Ballet de l'OnR) explore multiple artistic fields, some of which are addressed by Balanchine's iconic work: string ensembles, the simplicity of an open stage space, verticality and the range of human relationships. A serenade for three voices, accompanied by the musicians of the Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse.

6-52€

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