Press information
July 2008

New York City Ballet to perform in Tivoli

New York City Ballet - one of the world's great ballet companies - will visit Tivoli Gardens. Three diverse programmes showcase ten works from the Company's unparalleled repertory. Featuring nearly 100 dancers, NYCB will give seven performances at Tivoli Concert Hall from 1 - 6 September 2008.

- Tivoli is proud and pleased to present once again one of the world's foremost ballet companies. New York City Ballet is the international ballet company that is closest to the heart of the Danish audience. Thousands of Danes have been to the Tivoli Concert Hall countless times and delighted in NYCB's performances of Serenade, Symphony in C and all the other classical works by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins. In addition, the Company's guest performances have allowed Danish audiences to experience some of the newest works to enter the ballet repertory. For me, the summer visit by NYCB is a wonderful and essential part of a 30-year-old Tivoli tradition, says Peter Bo Bendixen, Tivoli's Ballet Master.

All Balanchine programme

The season will open with an all Balanchine programme (Programme A), featuring three of the choreographer's greatest works: Serenade, one of the New York City Ballet's signature works, and the first ballet created by Balanchine in the USA, Symphony in three Movements, a neoclassical masterpiece to the music of Igor Stravinsky, and Symphony in C, a dazzling exhibition of the grand style that is a hallmark of New York City Ballet.

All Robbins programme

Best known for such Broadway classics as West Side Story, and Fiddler on the Roof, director and choreographer Jerome Robbins made NYCB his artistic home for more than 40 years. During his lifetime Robbins allowed only a few companies other than NYCB to perform his ballets, so an evening with three of his works is a first in Denmark. New York City Ballet's all Robbins programme (Programme B) will feature the playful and energetic Interplay; his ballet masterpiece Dances at a Gathering, set to a chain of piano pieces by Frederic Chopin; and Brahms/Handel, Robbins' 1983 collaboration with choreographer Twyla Tharp.

All Millennium programme

Sophisticated dynamics and sensual elegance were the words the press used to describe Peter Martins Hallelujah Junction choreographed for the Royal Danish Ballet in 2001. This work will open the third programme (Programme C), which consists exclusively of works from this millennium. Also included is the pas de deux from After the Rain by Christopher Wheeldon, one of the most sought-after choreographers in the world today; a ballet by the Italian choreographer Mauro Bigonzetti, whose work will be seen for the first time in Denmark; and finally, Russian Seasons by Alexei Ratmansky, who is currently the Artistic Director of Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet, and is well known to Danish audiences for the Nutcracker he choreographed for Tivoli in 2001 and for Anna Karenina created for The Royal Danish Ballet in 2004.

Tickets and performances

The New York City Ballet will perform at the Concert Hall from 1 - 6 September 2008. All performances start at 7.30pm. On Saturday there will also be a matinée performance at 3pm. The Tivoli Symphony Orchestra will be conducted by the New York City Ballet's own conductors. Tickets are available from Tivoli's Ticket Centre, tel.: +45 3315 1012, or at Billetnet, tel.: +45 7015 6565. To purchase from Sweden, tel.: +46 775 700 400. Tickets cost DKK 300 - 750 (excl. booking fee), incl. admission to Tivoli.

Further information

Tivoli
Press Coordinator Tatjana Vang, tel.: +45 3375 0711, email: tv@tivoli.dk 

www.tivoli.dk