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WILLIAM FORSYTHE EVENING
THE BLAKE WORKS

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Performances
08:00 PM
PREMIERE
Series Ballet Premiere
08:00 PM
Series O Mini Subs.
08:00 PM
Out of Subs.
02:30 PM
Out of Subs.
08:00 PM
Invitation La Scala
08:00 PM
Series M Mini Subs.
08:00 PM
Series N Week-end Subs.
Ballet

William Forsythe Evening / The Blake Works

From 11 to 29 November 2025
1 hour and 32 minutes circa intermission included

Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company

Teatro alla Scala Production

Pre-recorded music

Programme

Prologue

Teatro alla Scala Production
World Premiere: Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company, Teatro alla Scala, 10 May 2023

William Forsythe, coreography, scenes and costumes
James Blake, music
Lindisfarne I
Stefanie Arndt, choreographic supervision
Laura Contardi and Massimo Murru, choreographic restaging
Tanja Rühl, lights with original design by Brandon Stirling Baker

The Barre Project

Teatro alla Scala Production
Originates from The Barre Project (Blake Works II) created and filmed in 2020 before transmission: digital platform CLI Studio, 25 March 2021

William Forsythe, coreography, scenes and costumes
James Blake, music
Buzzard & Kestrel; Lullaby for My Insomniac; 200 Press
Stefanie Arndt, choreographic supervision
Laura Contardi and Massimo Murru, choreographic restaging
Tanja Rühl, lights with original design by Brandon Stirling Baker

Blake Works I

Teatro alla Scala Production
World Premiere: Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, Palais Garnier, 4 July 2016

William Forsythe, coreography and scenes
James Blake, music
From the album “The Colour in Anything” I Need a Forest Fire; Put That Away and Talk to Me; The Colour in Anything; I Hope My Life; Waves know Shores; Two Men Down; F.O.R.E.V.E.R.
Stefanie Arndt, choreographic supervision
Lara Montanaro and Antonino Sutera, choreographic restaging
Dorothee Merg and William Forsythe, costumes
Tanja Rühl, lights

In brief

As a culmination of his project to explore the musical fabric of James Blake, which began in 2016, William Forsythe has destined the first full version of this work for La Scala Ballet in 2023: a new and unprecedented evening- featuring the very newest Forsythe creations as a suite of ballets built to music by the vibrant British composer. Now returning to La Scala, under the definitive title The Blake Works, are William Forsythe’s choreographic architectures of Prologue, The Barre Project and Blake Works I.

 1 hours and 32 minutes circa intermission included
FIRST PART (Prologue, The Barre Project) 37’
Intermission
25’
SECOND PART (Blake Works I) 32’
End
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