International Ballet Gala (2011)

Synopsis

A compilation of ballet performances. This production shared a program book with Don Quixote (2011), also produced by Danceworks Production & Ena Ballet Studio Company.

Production Information

  • Production / Presenting Company:Danceworks Production & Ena Ballet Studio Company
  • Artistic Director / Curator / Programme Coordinator:Jie Choong Wan-Ching
  • Date:15th January 2011
  • Total Showing:1
  • Venue:Istana Budaya
  • State:Kuala Lumpur

Individual Dance Items

Item #1

  • Title:Grand pas de deux from ‘Le Corsaire’
  • Choreographer:Marius Petipa
  • Category:Ballet
  • Dancers:Madoka Toguchi, Yasuomi Akimoto
  • Composer:Riccardo Drigo

Item #2

  • Title:Manon’ act 1 pas de deux
  • Choreographer:Sir Kenneth MacMillan
  • Category:Ballet
  • Dancers:Rachel Rawlins, Robert Curran
  • Composer:Jules Massenet

Item #3

  • Title:Grand pas de deux from ‘Flames of Paris’ act 3
  • Choreographer:Vasily Vainonen
  • Category:Ballet
  • Dancers:Rino Fujihashi, Kevin Jackson
  • Composer:Boris Asafiev

Item #4

  • Title:Luna
  • Item Synopsis / Program Notes:

    A trio about the maturity of a child to adulthood; with increasing need to pursue uncertainty, and with what seemed like learned confidence, Luna finds herself lost at the moment of chaos; the truth can only be found by the lost child within.

  • Choreographer:Jie Choong Wan-Chin
  • Category:Ballet
  • Dancers:Suhaili Micheline, Steve Goh
  • Composer:Maurice Ravel

Item #5

  • Title:The Nutcracker Prince’s solo
  • Category:Ballet
  • Dancers:Yasuomi Akimoto
  • Composer:Peter | Tchaikovsky

Item #6

  • Title:Pas de deux from ‘Swan Lake’ act 2
  • Choreographer:Graeme Murphy
  • Category:Ballet
  • Dancers:Rachel Rawlins, Kevin Jackson
  • Composer:Peter | Tchaikovsky

Item #7

  • Title:Excerpts from ‘Cindrella’
  • Item Synopsis / Program Notes:

    At the funeral, Cinderella’s father, Instant wedding, We are ‘not’ family, Court mistress, Prince’s entrance, The Miracle, Grand waltz, Orange fight, Love at the terrace, Coda at 12 o’clock

  • Choreographer:Jie Choong Wan-Chin
  • Category:Ballet
  • Dancers:Ena Hirose, Robert Curran, Juan Carlos Penuela, Rosemarie Starke, Naim Syahrazad, Fairul Zahid, Esme O., Change Huey Sze, Amellia Feroz, Satoko Konishi, Suhaili Micheline, Pallop Namson, Anurak Ngamta, Wasin Sonsaising, Ruangyut Srakaew, Gan Hua Hooi, Misaki Yamaguchi, Vincent Choong
  • Composer:Sergiy Prokofiev

Credit

  • Lighting Designer:Tan Eng Heng
  • Set Designer:Vu Dang
  • Production Crew:Alison Khor, Phang Fook Hung, Pau Chang Yan, Chia Wan Ru, Vincent Choong
  • Stage Manager:Jason Lai
  • Additional Notes:

    Rehearsal master/mistress: Jie Choong Wan-Chin, Ena Hirose, Rosemarie Starke, Juan Carlos Penuela, Goh Siew Hiong
    Make-up artist: Goh Siew Hiong