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Edinburgh Festival 2003 The 2003 programme has been announced and here is the link to their
website page with the programme.
Schedule:
11-14 August 2003 at 19:30
Cullberg Ballet The Edinburgh Playhouse
Home and Home Johan Inger Choreography
JS Bach/Amon Tobin/André Ferrari/Bogdan Raczynski Music
Home and Home is a dreamy and witty work by the new Artistic Director of Cullberg Ballet, Johan Inger, known to Edinburgh audiences for his work as both dancer and choreographer with Nederlands Dans Theater.
Fluke Mats Ek Choreography
Flesh Quartet Music
Accessible, exciting, touching and brimming with good humour, Fluke is contemporary dance at its most entertaining and satisfying.
‘breathtaking beauty, playful humour and bitter seriousness are united in boundary-breaking dance…’ Lanstidningen Sodertalje on Fluke
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17-18 August 2003 at 20:00
Chantier-Musil
The Edinburgh Playhouse
Sponsor The Royal Bank of Scotland
The Man Without Qualities COMPAGNIE FRANÇOIS VERRET François Verret Director
François Verret’s collaborations with writers, actors, musicians, visual artists and circus artists create multi-dimensional performances which are both profound and beautiful. Chantier-Musil is inspired by Musil’s impressionistic and intensely poetic novel The Man Without Qualities.
‘As every large city, it was made of irregularities and changes, of things and affairs slipping in front of the other, refusing to walk in time, knocking into each other, spaces of silence, passageways and ample rhythmic pulsation, eternal dissonance, eternal imbalance of rhythms.’
Robert Musil, The Man Without Qualities.
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21-23 August 2003, 19:30
23 August 2003, 14:00
Picasso and Dance
BORDEAUX OPERA BALLET The Edinburgh Playhouse
Supported by the Edinburgh International Festival Endowment Fund
Parade Leonide Massine Choreography
Erik Satie Music
Pablo Picasso Sets and costumes
Jean Cocteau Libretto
The Three Cornered Hat Leonide Massine Choreography
Manuel de Falla Music
Pablo Picasso Sets and costumes
Icarus Serge Lifar Choreography
Lifar/Honegger/Szyfer Rhythms
Pablo Picasso Sets and costumes
The Prodigal Son George Balanchine Choreography
Serge Prokofiev Music
Georges Rouault Sets and costumes
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28-30 August 2003, 19:30
30 August 2003, 14:00
San Francisco Ballet The Edinburgh Playhouse
supported by the Edinburgh International Festival Muses
A showcase season for the wonderful San Francisco Ballet and one of the hottest young choreographers of today. British born Christopher Wheeldon’s Tryst for The Royal Ballet was acclaimed as the best new ballet of 2002, while Olivier Award- winning Polyphonia was a hit of New York City Ballet’s 2001 Festival visit. Firmly rooted in the classical style, his ballets are startlingly fresh, bringing classical ballet into the 21st century. This programme offers the first in depth focus on his work, and includes the world premiere of a new ballet, created by San Francisco Ballet and commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival.
There Where She Loves Christopher Wheeldon Choreography
Chopin and Kurt Weill Music
Continuum Christopher Wheeldon Choreography
Györgi Ligeti Music
New Ballet WORLD PREMIERE
Christopher Wheeldon Choreography
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And some articles connected to the Festival announcement:
Difficulty of striking the right balance By Sarah Jones for Scotland on Sunday
EVER since the last sleepy-eyed cultural ingénue was turfed amicably out on to the street on the final £5 night of last year’s International Festival, there has been speculation over how Brian McMaster, director of the Edinburgh International Festival, would consolidate his newly won audience.
There was much talk from McMaster’s Festival office of implementing the results of in-depth market research, although no formal exit polls were taken (probably wise as the level of alcohol in the bloodstream of the average audience member was no doubt over the limit for valid research purposes), and true to word, McMaster launched this year’s festival with the ominous phrase "programming based on the results of our market research last year".
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By Ek, Johan can New Cullberg director Johan Inger’s bold steps see him emerge from illustrious shadows, writes Kelly Apter for The Scotsman
They did not know it at the time, but 1967 was a good year for Swedish dance. Birgit Cullberg, already an influential figure in Sweden and beyond, founded her new company, Cullberg Ballet.
And Mr and Mrs Inger gave birth to a son, Johan. Thirty-six years later, Birgit’s modest eight-strong troupe is one of the foremost modern dance companies in the world. And young Johan is about to take over the reins.
As an 18-year-old attending the Royal Swedish Ballet School, Inger saw Cullberg for the first time, and experienced something of an epiphany. "That was the first time I really enjoyed watching dance," he explains. "Up until then, I enjoyed dancing but to be honest I never really enjoyed watching it.
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Don't panic! By Andrew Eaton for The Scotsman
Just before Christmas I ran into Brian McMaster at a drinks reception. There was sweat trickling down his forehead and he had a slightly manic grin on his face, as he quite often does. I asked him how the 2003 Edinburgh International Festival was shaping up. He said that the previous day he had pretty much finalised the programme, but that this morning he had torn the whole thing up again in a state of panic. He swore really loudly. Then he had a blazing row with this newspaper’s Joyce McMillan about the Scottish national theatre project, telling her, essentially, that it was a waste of bloody money and time. He was giggling like a schoolboy as he said this.
Talking to McMaster, you often get the impression that he finds what he does for a living uproariously funny. Perhaps he still can’t believe, after more than a decade as director of one of the world’s most prestigious arts festivals, that he gets to travel across the globe having nice dinners and seeing shows, bringing the acts he likes to Edinburgh, at great expense, where he can see them again.
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Edinburgh goes full Cycle The programme for this year's international festival is Ring fenced by the works of Wagner but there are plenty of other choice items on offer, as KEITH BRUCE discovers for The Herald
THERE is a solid, chunky, dependable - and perhaps a little four-square - look to Brian McMaster's programme for the 2003 Edinburgh International Festival. The newly-knighted artistic director - who would, characteristically, prefer that we didn't labour his title (perhaps influenced by the member of staff who welcomed him back after the Christmas and New Year holidays with a commiserating pat on the shoulder and a "and you were doing so well, too") - was to some extent hamstrung by his Wagner.
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