Celebration Gala
Celebration Gala features grand classical showpieces, thrilling contemporary excerpts, perennial favourites and more.
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Melbourne | Sydney
2021
Our cities are reopening, and colour and brightness are returning to our lives.
After our dancers performed a five-star (Limelight Magazine) Sydney season, our Celebration Gala comes to Melbourne, where the whole company brings you a taste of what you missed this year including pieces from New York Dialects (George Balanchine’s Serenade and an excerpt from Pam Tanowitz’s Watermark) and Counterpointe (an excerpt from William Forsythe’s Artifact Suite).
SERENADE
Excerpt from Artifact Suite
Black Swan Pas de deux from Swan Lake
Pas de deux from The Merry Widow
Excerpt from Watermark
La Favorita
Pas de deux from Chroma
Dance of the Snow Fairies from Act I of The Nutcracker
It’s an exhilarating celebration of our artists’ talent and commitment, the many facets of ballet, and our joy in being able to dance for you again. What better way to kick off the festive season?
The orchestra is tuning up. The curtain is rising.
“ Ballet is back, as show-stopping as ever… Believe the hype. ”ArtsHub
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Production credits
Celebration Gala
Serenade
Choreography George Balanchine
© The George Balanchine Trust
Music Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Serenade for Strings in C Major, Op.48
Costume design Barbara Karinska
Excerpt from Artifact Suite
Choreography and costume design William Forsythe
Music Eva Crossman-Hecht
Black Swan Pas de deux from Swan Lake
Choreography after Marius Petipa
Music Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Costume design Hugh Colman
Pas de deux from The Merry Widow
Choreography Ronald Hynd
Music Franz Lehár
Based on the operetta by Victor Léon and Leo Stein
Arranged and orchestrated by John Lanchbery
Costume design Desmond Heeley
Presented by arrangement with GLOCKEN VERLAG LIMITED
Excerpt from Watermark
Choreography Pam Tanowitz
Choreographer’s Assistant Melissa Toogood
Music Caroline Shaw Watermark
Costume and set design Harriet Jung and Reid Bartelme (Reid & Harriet)
La Favorita
Choreography Petal Miller-Ashmole
Music Gaetano Donizetti
Costume design The Australian Ballet Costume Workshop
Pas de deux from Chroma
Choreography Wayne McGregor
Music Joby Talbot Transit of Venus
Costume design Moritz Junge
Dance of the Snow Fairies from Act I of The Nutcracker
Choreography Peter Wright
Music Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Costume design John F. Macfarlane
With Orchestra Victoria
