Published on Dec 7, 2015

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Genre: NCPA

Dates: February 3-5, 2016

Venue: Opera House of NCPA

Prices: 220, 300, 450, 580, 720, 860, 980, 1200

Features: A new full-length story ballet based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, choreographed by David Nixon. From Februray 3rd-5th, Britain Northern Ballet Theatre will presents The Great Gatsby at Opera House of NCPA.

BRIEF INTRODUCTION

A new full-length story ballet based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, choreographed by David Nixon, is the perfect project for this energetic, enthusiastic ensemble – the characters are strong, the locations distinctive, the atmosphere unforgettable. But Gatsby adaptations are tricky to pull off – witness the ambivalence attending the release of Baz Luhrmann’s new movie version – at least in part because the novel, despite its obviously filmic qualities, actually derives much of its effect from an intense evocation of the intangible and invisible: moods, feelings, suspicions. Moreover, the characters are hard-to-nail cocktails of mannerisms, some of which – like Daisy’s murmur – cannot be translated into dance.

Northern Ballet Theatre
Northern Ballet, formerly Northern Ballet Theatre, is a dance company based in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with a strong repertoire in theatrical dance productions where the emphasis is on story telling as well as classical ballet. It tours widely across the United Kingdom.

2013 saw the creation of two new full-length ballets; The Great Gatsby and Cinderella.Both productions were choreographed by David Nixon and again received their world premières at Leeds Grand Theatre.

In 2012 the Company started producing ballet's created especially for young children. The first was Ugly Duckling choreographed by Company dancers Dreda Blow and Sebastian Loe. The second, Three Little Pigs choreographed by dancers Hannah Bateman and Victoria Sibson. The third, Elves & the Shoemaker was choreographed by Northern Ballet Ballet Master Daniel de Andrade with an original score by composer Philip Feeney. The three ballets for children have been adapted by the BBC for CBeebies; the adaptations kept the music and dance but also incorporated one of the channel's properties, Mr Bloom, into the production to make them more suitable for a television audience.During 2013, most of the Channel 4 series Big Ballet was filmed at Northern Ballet.

Tickets for Great Gatsby By Britain Northern Ballet Theatre are Available now!