Dance, from Forsythe to Kranz, ‘Contemporary Evening’ at La Scala

After ‘Serata Quattro Choreografi’, staged on 9, 10 and 11 June, the first ballet show with the audience in the hall, the Scala Ballet Company returns to the theater with a new appointment (7 and 8 July), ‘Contemporary Evening ‘, which will welcome dance lovers even in the stalls. Seven illustrious names in international contemporary choreography, five La Scala debuts and a new creation in world premiere come together, therefore, in the new ‘Contemporary Evening’, with the great return of William Forsythe – for the first time the Balletto della Scala will present one of its historical pieces The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude alongside the reprise of the final trio of SENTieri by Philippe Kratz. It will also be the first time at La Scala for 5 authors, Kryzysztof Pastor, David Dawson, Patrick de Bana, Natalia Horecna and Simone Valastro, all united in the sign of a contemporary language that draws its roots from the classic and the great masters of the twentieth century and distinguished by originality, sensitivity and musical taste. Natalia Horecna, dancer with the Hamburg Ballett, Nederlands Dance Theater, Scapino Ballet and now a free lance choreographer, is already known on the international scene. She is entrusted with the world premiere of ‘Birds walking on water’ for the company from La Scala, which she also designs for sets and costumes. Impressive solos and twos will alternate in the other signatures this evening. With the duo Tristan and Isolde from his production Tristan Kryzysztof Pastor, acclaimed personality in the world of dance and director of the Polish National Ballet, brings to the stage the passion and tragic intensity of a love story, enhanced by the music of Wagner , David Dawson created in 2007 ‘A sweet spell of oblivion’ on a selection of preludes from Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well Tempered Harpsichord. At La Scala this pas de deux will show for the first time the stylistic code of the award-winning British choreographer who in the new season will be among the protagonists, with ‘Anima Animus’, of the evening-triptych ‘Dawson / Kratz / Kylián’. The charm of Baroque music also permeates ‘The labirinth of solitude’, a solo of great expressive force created for Ivan Vasiliev in 2011 on the Chaconne in G min. by Tomaso Antonio Vitali by Patrick de Bana, one of the most interesting authors on the contemporary scene, a unique and eclectic personality like his background. New choreographic lifeblood of our time, which brings Simone Valastro’s talent to La Scala for the first time with ‘Árbakkinn’, a duo created in 2019 on the homonymous composition by Ólafur Arnalds. Patrick Milan, a graduate of the La Scala Ballet School already a dancer at the Opéra de Paris, his choreographic career saw him at the Opéra Bastille, Opéra Garnier, Ravello Festival, Granada Festival, in 2020 at the Bol’šoj Theater, with a world premiere creation and at the Rome Opera in 2021.