Alice
Philip Glass • Amir Hosseinpour & Jonathan Lunn
World premiere of the music and choreography
Ballet with original music by Philip Glass based on Lewis Carroll’s novel (1865).
Infos
Mulhouse
La Filature
Strasbourg
Opéra
Piece for the whole company
Including interval
With the support of Fidelio
Philip Glass is represented by Dunvagen Music Publishers, Inc.
Cast
Music Philip Glass Choreography, dramaturgy Amir Hosseinpour, Jonathan Lunn Musical Director Karen Kamensek Stage Design, costumes Anne Marie Legenstein Lighting Fabrice Kebour Video Design and Animations of Paintings David Haneke Paintings Robert Israel CCN • Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin, Orchestre symphonique de Mulhouse
Artists
Actor Sunnyi Melles
Presentation
In the early 1860s, to entertain young Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll dreamt up a strange and wonderful world where common sense is nonsense, cats are nihilists, hatters are mad, silkworms are opium addicts, and playing cards are soldiers under the command of a tyrannical Queen of Hearts. Written in 1865, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, followed in 1871 by Through the Looking-Glass, was a popular success. Before long, all British schoolchildren and their parents knew about the escapades of the young Alice who, to dispel the boredom of a summer afternoon, follows a white rabbit sporting a tailcoat and pocket watch as he dashes into his burrow. From Walt Disney to Tim Burton, artists spanning all disciplines have been inspired by Carroll's rich imagination. With a new score by Philip Glass, a figurehead of American minimalism, choreographers Amir Hosseinpour and Jonathan Lunn reimagine and reinvent Carroll's fantastical world. Freed from the original narrative, the dancers of the OnR Ballet play a new gallery of contemporary creatures and characters, joined by actor Sunnyi Melles.
