Ballet

Spring

(Kevade)

Ballet in one act.
Based on Oskar Luts’ novel Spring. With this production we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Vanemuine ballet.

Composer: Ardo Ran Varres
Director-Choreographer: Ruslan Stepanov
Stage Designer: Liisi Eelmaa
Costume Designer: Mare Tommingas
Light Designer: Airi Eras

In Roles: Takuya Sumitomo, Hayley Blackburn, Silas Stubbs, Ilja Mironov, Janek Savolainen, Aivar Kallaste, Alo Kurvits, Rita Dolgihh, Maarja Paugus, Marika Aidla, Janika Suurmets, Saori Nagata, Mai Kageyama, Nashua Mironova, Rebecca Peters, Kristina Markevičiute, Raminta Rudžionyte, Rosamund Ford, Milena Tuominen, Fenella Cook, Laura Quin, Julia Kaškovskaja, Julia Litvinenko, Anna Shircliff, Valentine Legat, Emily Hughes, Colin Thomas Maggs, Alens Piskunovs, Daniil Kolmin, Daniel Szybkowski, Elias Girod, Heiki Palm

Presented with no intermission.
Running Time:

1:30

Performances:

Every Estonian takes Oskar Luts personally...but Oskar Luts it is. The characters of his Spring come again – young, new and everlasting.

"In order to make the production more original, I have to be able to be absolutely, in fact, outrageously free. I have to give up the imagery used by Oskar Luts and thereby I have to create my own aesthetic world ruled by my own idea of beauty and harmony.

Every artist, regardless of the genre, wants to depict the human being’s inner world and its diversity as deeply as possible. I attempt to convey the overall atmosphere of the production and its aestheticism through Arno’s world by using the language of dreams, allegory, signs and symbols."

Director Ruslan Stepanov

The premiere on 4 March 2009 in the Grand Building of Vanemuine.

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