Choreography: Peter Quanz Costume Designer: Holly Hynes Set Designer: Mikhail Barkhin Animation Director: Alexander Malyshev Animation: Mikhail Barkhin Lighting: Vladimir Lukasevich
World premiere: 7 July 2007, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
The production of "Aria Suspended" at the Mariinsky Theater was made possible by the generous gift from The Cooper Family Foundation
Length: 30 minutes
Special thank you to Elena Tchernichova for her crucial involvement throughout the creation of Aria Suspended.
The premiere of Aria Suspended was danced by Viktoria Tereshkina, Alenxander Sergeyev, Ilya Kusnetsov and Anton Pimenov along with artists of the Kirov Ballet of the Mariinsky Theatre.
Pictured to Right: Ekaterina Osmolkina, Filip Stepin, Alexei Nedviga, Andrej Ermakov Courtesy of the Mariinsky Theatre
The ballerina’s role in “Aria Suspended”, as well as the male soloist[s] .., are among the richest created by a contemporary choreographer.
Very different from the school of Balanchine is Quanz’s presentation. Quanz’s ballet has its own personality and pulse.
George Jackson Dance International Winter 2007
...he uses his very personal dance language to create emotionally fraught dances that map spiritual and psychological states of the heroes. … His ballet was the pièce de resistance of a triple bill with Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and La Valse.
