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| Melissa Chapski and Giovanni Princic
Photo Michel Schnater
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Hans van Manen has delighted audiences around the world and inspired dancers and choreographers for as long as I can remember. I have seen the great man at the Stadschouwburg in Amsterdam on 24 Nov 2013 (see The Junior Company of the Dutch National Ballet - Stadsshouwburg Amsterdam 24 Nov 2013 25 Nov 2013) and 6 Feb 2015 (see The Dutch National Ballet Junior Company's best Performance yet 8 Feb 2015). He got a standing ovation each time and no wonder for he is a national treasure whom the Dutch revere.
Van Manen appeared at those performances because the Junior Company include one of his works in their tour each year. This time it was was Trois Gnossiennes which he created for the Dutch National Ballet on 20 Oct 1982. The music that he used for this ballet is by Erik Satie, the same composer who inspired Sir Frederick Ashton to create Monotones. That is another ballet I love very much.
The dancers in the photos are Giovanni Princic from Italy and Melissa Chapski of the USA. I admire them both enormously.
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| Melissa Chapski and Giovanni Princic
Photo Michel Schnater
Copyright 2016 Dutch National Ballet, All rights reserved
Reproduction licensed by kind permission of the company |
They work very well together. Earlier in the performance Princic had danced a masterly Ballet 101 and Chapski had charmed us in the Pas de Six. My review of the whole show is Ballet Bubbles 16 Feb 2016.
Audiences in this country will gain an opportunity to see more of van Manen's work when the Netherlands Dance Theatre tours the UK next month. I hope to catch NDT2 in Bradford and at The Lowry.
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