CUBAN SUPERSTAR PRESENTS NEW WORK AT THE LOWRY
CARLOS ACOSTA
Premières Plus
The Heart of Carlos
Sun 24 & Mon 25 July 2011
Press night, Mon 25 July, 7.30pm
Following sell-out successes at The Lowry, the acclaimed dance superstar Carlos Acosta returns to The Lowry with his most personal work to date, Premieres Plus, The Heart of Carlos, prior to London and Birmingham dates.
Now significantly enhanced and reworked from the Premieres staging in 2010, Premieres Plus, The Heart of Carlos features new works and collaborations with major UK & international dance stars and musicians, celebrating Carlos's astonishing dance vision. This staging is devised and produced by Acosta and combines his outstanding classical technique with some of the most celebrated contemporary works of recent years. The Times described Premieres Plus as “The next step for the Cuban superstar…the most adventurous and experimental we have seen from him.”
NEW WORKS for Premieres Plus: The Heart of Carlos include:
• Will Tuckett’s On Before, originally created for the Ballet Boyz’s Billy Trevett and Royal Ballet principal Zenaida Yanowsky, and now performed for the first time by Carlos and Zenaida to John Adams’s masterwork Christian Zeal & Activity
• Acosta making his solo debut in Memoria by Rambert Dance Company’s Miguel Altunaga with a score by Mexican electronica composer, Murcof
• A newly revised version of Simon Elliott's The Emotional Architecture employing emerging digital technology and spectacular 3D digital animation.
Premieres Plus: The Heart of Carlos comprises a packed night of nine major pieces including:
• Russell Maliphant's masterpiece Two, originally created for Sylvie Guillem, and regarded as one of Maliphant's most original and inventive pieces
• Kim Brandstrup's Footnote to Ashton from Brandstrup's Two Footnotes to Ashton, created for the Royal Ballet in 2005 during the Ashton centenary and is a solo for Zenaida Yanowsky set to Handel's beautiful aria Per te lasciai luce from the cantata Amoroso Delirium
• Simon Elliot’s Falling Deep Inside, a multimedia commission accompanied by live singing from the Northern Lights Choir
• Edwaard Liang's Sight Unseen, created in 2006 for Hubbard Street 2 in Chicago, and Hand Duets with George Cespédes & Carlos Acosta, a commission from George Cespédes - just nominated for an Olivier Award 2011 for his work with Danza Contemporanea de Cuba - to a score by Cuban composer Omar Puente
• Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium sees Zenaida and Carlos perform together with the Northern Lights Choir.
Listing Information:
The Lowry,
Salford 24 & 25 July, 7.30pm
Box Office: 0843 208 6000 / www.thelowry.com
Tickets £20 - £49.50
London Coliseum, 27-30 July 2011, 7.30pm. Tickets: £15-£75
Box Office: 0871 911 0200 / www.eno.org
Birmingham Hippodrome, 17-20 Aug, 7.30pm. Tickets: £11-£45
Box Office: 0844 338 5000 / www.birminghamhippodrome.com
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Media Enquiries:
Michelle Bowey, Head of Media Relations, The Lowry, Tel: 0161 876 2037, email: michelle@thelowry.com
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Biographies
Carlos Acosta is considered to be the greatest male dancer of his generation. He was born in Havana and is the youngest of eleven children. In a bid to save the young boy from a life of gangs and petty crime his father sent him to ballet school when he was ten. Acosta was expelled from ballet school twice, but, when he saw the National Ballet of Cuba perform aged 13, he vowed to become a great dancer. His prizes include the Gold Medal at the Prix de Lausanne in 1990 and in that same year he won the Gold Medal at the Fourth Annual Competition of Ballet, Paris. He was a Principal with English National Ballet in 1991-2. He danced with National Ballet of Cuba in 1992-3, and was a Principal with Houston Ballet from 1993-8. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1998 and became a Principal Guest Artist in 2003.
Zenaida Yanowsky was born in France and trained in Spain with Anatol Yanowsky and Carmen Robles. After winning the Silver Medal at Varna in 1991, she joined the Paris Opera Ballet. She won a Gold Medal at both the European Young Dancers Competition (1993) and Jackson International Ballet Competition (1994). She joined The Royal Ballet in 1994 and became a Principal in 2001. Zenaida has created roles for, and worked with, contemporary choreographers such as Tharp, Forsythe, Ek, Duato, Wheeldon, Baldwin and Kylián. She features in the films Duet and The Sandman (Channel 4) and filmed Riot at the Rite (BBC).
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