A Night of Contemporary Ballet

Tue 04 Jun 2013, 8 pm
Hanoi Opera House

From the organizer:

Come to an evening of contemporary dance, featuring a full-length original version of “Rite of Spring” choreographed by Cao Duc Toan and Ha Thai Son. Also on the program will be another original piece, “Nina Simone Suite” (six songs of Nina Simone) choreographed by Marisa Hayes and danced by Cao Chi Thanh and guest soloist, American dancer Cassidy Isaacson.

Cassidy Isaacson is a dancer with the Grand Rapids Ballet (Michigan, USA) under the artistic direction of Patricia Barker. She studied ballet for fourteen years in her hometown of Redmond, Washington. Cassidy has performed soloist and pas de deux roles in The Nutcracker, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Le Corsaire, Company B, The Envelope, Con Amore, in Rachael Riley’s Dreams, in Olivier Wevers’ The Sofa and Four Little Swans in Mario Radacovsky’s contemporary version ofSwan Lake. Cassidy has also studied with Deborah Hadley at Pacific Northwest Ballet, Long Beach Ballet in China and on scholarship at the Julliard School in New York. Cassidy is delighted to be dancing Natural Phenomena: Nina Simone Suite again after performing in its Paris premiere last summer.

Marisa C. Hayes is an award winning choreographer and dance filmmaker based in France. Her choreography has been commissioned throughout Europe, North America and Asia for diverse venues including recent performances at Paris’ Grand Palais during the International Contemporary Art Fair, the Centre National de la Danse, and at the American Dance Festival. She was recently named choreographer in residence at Dussedorf’s state theatre for dance (Germany) where she created a new version of The Rite of Spring featuring dancers of Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal. Marisa’s recent honors include the Susan Braun Award from the New York Dance Films Association (shared with Franck Boulègue, her husband and collaborator), CEC Arts Link New York Fellow, New York Theatre Communications Group Fellow, and being named Cultural Ambassador to Hong Kong by the Regional Government of Burgundy (France). Marisa has also contributed to five books on dance history and dance films, in addition to co-directring the International Video Dance Festival of Burgundy and Body Cinéma Dance Theatre.

Program

1. Natural Phenomena-Nina Simone Suite
Choreography by Marisa Hayes
Soundscape by Frank Boulegue
Music: Nina Simone
2. An Impovisation
Choreography by Le Vu Long
Percussion by Ha Dinh Huy
3. Echoes
Choreography by Cao Duc Toan
Music: Bui Anh Dung
Interval
4. Rite of Spring
Choreography by Ha Thai Son and Cao Duc Toan
Music: Igor Stravinsky

Tickets

Ticket prices: 250.000, 350.000 VND. All Tickets available at Hanoi Opera House – 1 Trang Tien or can book over [email protected]
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