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Prior to the world premiere of Kim Brandstrup's Transfigured Night at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre on Wednesday 28 October, Rambert is offering the rare chance to observe the company's dancers and orchestra rehearsing the work together.
Transfigured Night is a cinematic love story told through virtuosic dancing to Schoenberg's achingly beautiful score.
Kim Brandstrup
Winner, 2010 Olivier Award for Best New Dance Creation for Goldberg: The Rojo/ Brandstrup Project and in 1990 for Orfeo (London Contemporary Dance).
Previous productions include: Pas de Deux (Royal Opera Gala), new film for the Deloitte Ignitte Festival (Royal Ballet), Ceremony of Innocence (Royal Ballet/Aldeburgh Festival/DanceEast) revived for performances in Copenhagen and ROH, Metamorphosis Titian, co-choreographed with Wayne McGregor (Royal Ballet), Eidolon I and II, Ghosts (Royal Danish Ballet), Invitus, Invitam, Rushes and Goldberg (Royal Ballet), Medée (Théâtre des Champs-Élysées), The Fairy Queen (Glyndebourne, Paris, New York), Fall of the House of Usher, incorporating L'après midi and Jeux (Bregenz Festival), Pulcinella (Birmingham Royal Ballet),White Lead (Royal Swedish Ballet), Two Footnotes for Ashton (ROH2, Russia, New York, Bucharest), film with the Brothers Quay to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's Orfeo, Theme and Inversion (White Christmas), Songs of a Wayfarer (Rambert, UK tours), Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (Brothers Quay film), Afsked (Out of Denmark, also Dance Umbrella Gala, London, Bucharest), Queen of Spades (Montreal), In Place of Stone (Norwegian Ballet), Sleeping Beauty (Royal New Zealand Ballet).
Work in opera: Between Worlds, Death in Venice, Marriage of Figaro, Messiah, Eugene Onegin (ENO), Carousel (Opera North), Guillaume Tell (Netherlands Opera/ Metropolitan Opera).
Direction/choreography: Seven Deadly Sins (Greek National Opera), The Hour They Knew Nothing of Each Other (Malmo).
Arnold Schoenberg
Arnold Schoenberg, was born on September 13, 1874, Vienna, Austria and died on July 13, 1951, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
An Austrian-American composer who created new methods of musical composition involving atonality, namely serialism and the 12-tone row. He was also one of the most-influential teachers of the 20th century; among his most-significant pupils were Alban Berg and Anton Webern. In 1899, Schoenberg composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht ("Transfigured Night"), a highly romantic piece of music, it was based on a poem of the same name by Richard Dehmel and was the first piece of programme music written for such an ensemble. Its programmatic nature and its harmonies outraged conservative program committees. Consequently, it was not performed until 1903, when it was violently rejected by the public. Since then it has become one of Schoenberg's most-popular compositions, both in its original form and in Schoenberg's later versions for string orchestra.
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