Performing the Ballet of the State Opera Plovdiv, R.Bulgaria

“The Long Christmas Dinner” – dance play based on the play of the same name by Thornton Wilder
Music: Antonio Vivaldi

“Women in D minor” – dance play
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach

Choreographer: Radu Poklitaru
Scenographer: Andrej Zlobin
Costume designer: Dmytro Kurjata
Light design: Lena Antokhina

Ballet artists from the State Opera Plovdiv perform
The project is implemented with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria

RADU POKLITARU DANCE THEATER ON THE STAGE OF THE NATIONAL OPERA AND BALLET IN SKOPJE

The Ballet of the State Opera Plovdiv in Skopje will  presents two dance performances in one act with international recognition by the leading contemporary choreographer Radu Poklitaru. “The Long Christmas Dinner” based on the play of the same name by Thornton Wilder and music by Vivaldi and “Women in D minor” by Bach, inspired by “The House of Bernarda Alba” by Lorca will be a performed on February 17, at 8 pm on the stage of the National Opera and ballet of North Macedonia.

The presentation of the work of Radu Poklitaru is one of the brightest events in the dance calendar in Bulgaria for this year.

Radu Poklitaru is the founder and chief choreographer of the Kyiv Academic Theater of Modern Ballet, Honored Artist of Culture of Ukraine, People’s Artist of Moldova, winner of numerous European international awards, professor at the Department of Modern Choreography at the National University of Culture and Arts in Kyiv. In addition to dozens of performances at the Kyiv Modern Ballet, over the years he has staged ballet productions at the Bolshoi Theater, the Mariinsky Theater, the national operas of Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Serbia, etc. Radu Poklitaru has been part of the Plovdiv State Opera team since the beginning of the year.

“The Long Christmas Dinner” is a ballet-reflection on the transience of life, on the vain and useless things with which we fill the precious minutes, hours and years of our stay on Earth. The production follows ninety years of the life of an aristocratic family, passing through a series of Christmas dinners. Holiday after holiday, people’s destinies dissolve into oblivion like day-old butterflies, leaving nothing behind. The bright, grotesque choreography of Vivaldi’s music manages to touch the heart of every viewer and, without moralizing, ask the question – how are we different from stage characters? The play “The Long Christmas Dinner” by the American playwright Thorton Wilder, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, continues to be in the repertoire of a large number of drama theaters in Europe and the United States, after which a film was made, as well as an opera by the composer Paul Hindemith.

“Women in D Minor” is a performance imbued with reverence for the genius of JS Bach. Radu Poklitaru tells a tragic story of a non-existent female friendship, which serves only as an excuse for the unfolding of unusually complex multi-figure compositions and penetrating duet fragments.

The project is implemented with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria.