REPERTOire 24-25
The repertoire of the Cannes Junior Ballet blends ballets from the great ballet repertoire, creations by emerging choreographers, and reprises or creations by recognised choreographers. It is revisited every year to introduce novelty and enrich the knowledge of our young dancers.
DO YOU BELIEVE IN UNICORNS?
Choreography: Francesco Curci
Composer: Emanuele Lucchisani
Created in 2024 for the Cannes Jeune Ballet Rosella Hightower
Running time : 9 mn
7 dancers
When we sleep soundly, our dreams take us to a mysterious world where anything is possible. In this imaginary world, our secret desires, more or less hazy memories and strange ideas mingle. It's this infinite freedom that fuels the way we dance.
The choreography draws its inspiration from the fascinating world of dreams, particularly the REM phase, offering fertile ground for exploring the unconscious. Freed from all constraints, we wanted to reproduce improbable and surprising situations, using the absurd and madness to plumb the depths of the human soul through extreme movement. The body becomes a mirror of our hidden thoughts. Our movements express our deepest desires, without us really controlling them.
Emanuele Lucchisani's musical composition followed the creative process step by step. This adaptation invites the audience on a spiritual journey where reality and imagination merge to explore the mysteries of the mind together.
Photo: Sakher Almonem
ECLIPSE
Choreography: Martin Harriague
Composer: Alabama Shakes
Created in May 2024 for the Cannes Jeune Ballet Rosella Hightower
Running time : 30 mn
15 dancers
This piece was created for fifteen young dancers from the PNSD Rosella Hightower. They embody the quintessential adolescent community, the one in which it is important to blend in but also to define oneself as an individual. Superimposed on this very contemporary theme is an injunction from ancient times, suggested by the appearance of a mysterious figure who tells us that during eclipses of the moon or sun, the Incas played their music very loudly to awaken the stars and ward off the risk of them disappearing. In other words, singing and dancing to avoid obscurantism in every sense of the word. There's no doubt that the symbol applies to our times, and drives a steady stream of solos, duets and group dances, to the sounds of US rock band Alabama Shakes, among others. It's an invigorating counterpoint to the dangers threatening the world.
Photo: Nathalie Sternalski
CREATION NOVEMBER 2024
Choreography: Filipe Portugal
Composer: xx
Created in November 2024 for the Cannes Jeune Ballet Rosella Hightower
Duration : xx mn
15/20 dancers
Photo: Sakher Almonem
AMBER
Choreography : Lukas Timulak
Music: Beastie Boys, Kate Moore
Created in November 2023 for the Cannes Junior Ballet Rosella Hightower
Duration : 21mn
13 dancers
In this new creation for the Cannes Junior Ballet Rosella Hightower, choreographer Lukas Timulak has worked with a long-time collaborator, designer Peter Bilak.
Exploring the boundaries of visual and emotional perception, the stage becomes an evolving canvas, immersing the audience in a world where emotions transcend borders.
The performance is accompanied by instrumental music by the Beastie Boys, as well as piano compositions by Kate Moore.
Photo: Nathalie Sternalski
UN MOMENTO DI FELICITA
Choreography : Renato Zanella
Music: Nino Rota
Created in April 2023 for the Cannes Junior Ballet Rosella Hightower
Duration : 25 mn
13 dancers
« When I am creating on the piano, I tend to feel happy, but – the eternal dilemma – how can we feel happy in the midst of unhappiness ? I would do anything to offer everyone a moment of happiness. That’s what lies at the core of my music. » (Nino Rota).
Approaching Nino Rota’s work is certainly a moment of considerable emotion and memory, given the fact that generations have admired the best and most beautiful films from Italian realism accompanied by his music. How can dance address that? Two voiceless arts coming together, to create new emotions notably in addressing beautiful compositions partly unheard of by audiences, as such, offering food for thought and research to develop new artistic dimensions. Young dancers approach Nino Rota, interpret him, experience him, but above all, they seek what his music can bring to new generations.
There is a story, there isn’t, in fact there is, because Nino Rota’s music communicates and tells and will take those youngsters by their hand with the commitment to make them grow, as he always has through interpretations of great film directors such as Luchino Visconti, Eduardo De Filippo, Mario Monicelli, Franco Zeffirelli et surtout Federico Fellini.
Leaving one’s nest among those music notes, that is what we’re going to do, on tiptoe without adding any sound to design a new interpretation, I would say get the impression that the great composer is holding our hand. I will conclude by a sentence by F. Fellini that will accompany me through this new creation:
« What do you know? Have you ever heard the sound of a violin? No, because if you had listened to the voices of violins as we hear them now, you would have been quiet, and you wouldn’t have the impudence to believe you are dancing. Dance is.. it is embroidery. It is a flight. It is like catching a glimpse of the harmony of the stars. It is a declaration of love. Dance is a hymn to life! » (The Voice of the Moon, La voce della Luna, FEDERICO FELLINI, 1990).
Renato Zanella
Photo: Nathalie Sternalski
G/S<L (GENTLY SICK LOVE)
Choreography : Francesco Nappa
Music : Peter Broderick, Max Richter
Created in 2016 for the Cannes Junior Ballet Rosella Hightower
Duration: 7 mn
2 dancers
G/S<L acronym, whose sound evokes the name of young Giselle, is in fact the acronym of the story she is the protagonist of.
Giselle, sick at heart and sick with love, with love for Albrecht .
A pas de deux made of passion, of confidence and at the same time a trap, an infinite dance beyond death.
The acronym ends in <L (less than love). The most powerful of forces prevails ; what kills her is what saves her. As though in a forest, twittering accompanies the couple in an atmosphere that makes it hard to distinguish whether the two protagonists have already crossed the threshold of death.
Photo : Nathalie Sternalski
MOZART DANSE (EXTRACTS)
Choreography: Jean-Sébastien Colau and Vincenzo Veneruso
Music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Created in 2022
Duration : xx mn
x dancers
Jean-Sébastien Colau, international freelance dancer and choreographer, and Vincenzo Veneruso, dancer and choreographer, have created an abstract piece for the DNSP prépa and DNSP1 classes, inspired by the genius and beauty of Mozart's music.
A lover of freedom, equality and fraternity, convinced of the need for mutual exchange and joint work to advance humanity as a whole, and for the arts, sciences and ideas to progress, Mozart sought throughout his life to find himself.
He draws on the diversity and richness of the emotions that his music can convey: joy, beauty, overflowing life, exuberance as well as sensitivity, depth and fragility...
Hommage à la musique de Mozart’ highlights the universal themes of creative genius, creative freedom, madness and the flaws that are often the hallmarks of great creators.
Photo: Sakher Almonem
