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WILLIAM FORSYTHE EVENING
THE BLAKE WORKS
NCPA, BEIJING

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Performances
07:00 PM
02:00 PM
China

William Forsythe Evening / The Blake Works - Beijing

From 24 to 25 January 2026
1 hour and 32 minutes circa intermission included
Beijing
National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA)

Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company
Director Frédéric Olivieri

Pre-recorded music

 

Teatro alla Scala Production

Programme

Prologue

Coreography, scenes and costumes William Forsythe
Choreographic supervision Stefanie Arndt
Choreographic restaging by Laura Contardi and Massimo Murru
Music James Blake Lindisfarne I
Lights Tanja Rühl with original design by Brandon Stirling Baker

World Premiere: Teatro alla Scala Ballet Company, Teatro alla Scala, 10 May 2023
The Barre Project

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

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

Coreography and scenes William Forsythe
Choreographic supervision Stefanie Arndt
Choreographic restaging by Lara Montanaro e Antonino Sutera
Musics James Blake
From the record “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.
Costumes Dorothee Merg, William Forsythe
Lights Tanja Rühl

World Premiere: Ballet de l’Opéra de Paris, Palais Garnier, 4 July 2016