Cincinnati Ballet Resident Choreographer Adam Hougland returns with his design partner Marion Williams. Their choreography and design for Stravinsky's Rite of Spring premiered in Louisville in 2009. Williams and Hougland honor the composition's provocative history by creating around it a bold and daring world, expressing not a reverence of nature, but instead the dire consequences of turning one's back on it. "After creating Rite of Spring, I find I love Stravinsky for what he forces out of me. The music is intricate, detailed and bizarre in some places, and beautiful but kind of shrill and atonal in others," says Hougland. "It pushes you as a choreographer. It's not the kind of music I would just play at home. It's hard work, but the more you work with it, the more you fall in love."
Choreography for Vivace: Val Caniparoli
Music for Vivace: Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 2 in B flat, D. 125, performed by the CSO
Cincinnati Ballet rounds out the March series with a presentation of Vivace, Val Caniparoli's simply elegant, non-narrative nod to ballet classicism to Franz Schubert's Symphony No. 2 in B flat, D. 125. Caniparoli says, "I was commissioned to create this abstract work that related directly to the quality and style of music." The ballet concludes as the entire company takes the stage in a final climactic moment of glorious fireworks.
