Background
Cathy Marston has previously been an Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House and Director of Bern Ballett, and is much in demand internationally. The inspiration for her first work for The Royal Ballet Main Stage is the momentous life and career of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré. Jerome Robbins’s elegant and elegiac classic forms the second part of the programme. This exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to music by Chopin, is a masterpiece of subtlety and invention.
Mixed programme
These works are performed together:
The Cellist
Cathy Marston's first work for The Royal Ballet on the Main Stage.
Credits
Company
The Royal Ballet
Choreography
Scenario
Music
Set designer
Costume designer
Lighting designer
Performers
- Conductor
- Andrea Molino
- Dancers
- Solo cello
- Hetty Snell
- Concert Master
- Sergey Levitin
Dances at a Gathering
Jerome Robbins's ballet is a fluid exercise in pure dance for five couples, set to piano music by Fryderyk Chopin.
Credits
Company
The Royal Ballet
Choreography
Music
Costume designer
Performers
- Dancers
- Solo piano
- Robert Clark
- Dancer
- Valentino Zucchetti
To find out more visit the The Cellist / Dances at a Gathering (2020) production page.