Part I.
Franz Schubert - Robert North: Death and the Maiden

Part II.
Gustav Mahler - Myriam Naisy: Love and the Girl
Kurt Weill - Krzysztof Pastor: How much longer?
Max Richter - David Dawson: On the Nature of Daylight

Part III.
Philip Glass - András Lukács: Whirling

Every ballet company arrives at a stage when the traditional romantic-classical and national repertoire is not sufficient any more. The artists await new challenges, and the more open part of the audiences misses contemporary works. The performance of new, contemporary choreographies has always been important in the life of the Hungarian National Ballet. The ballet night to be premiered in June 2010, will feature five pieces by five choreographers of varied characters.

The American Robter North’s Death and the Maiden might be familiar to the Hungarian audience. The choreographer’s concept is easy to comprehend, and the first two movements of Schubert’s string quartet of the same title provides the musical base.

Myriam Naisy created her piece Love and the Girl in response and as a counterpoint to Robert North’s beautiful choreography, composed to Gustav Mahler’s sensitive winter Adagietto. .

The mood of Krzysztof Pastor’s How much longer? can be compared to Andrzej Wajda’s film Ash and Diamond. The choreography tries to find an answer to the question: how much longer does the unhappy love in Kurt Weill’s piece will take. .

David Dawson’s On the Nature of Daylight expresses a yearning to find the Other One. “I asked myself” Dawson writes “whether it happens in such an easy and simple way? What happens if I pass my spiritual partner without noticing her? It was this randomness that made me curious.” .

András Lukács, who is presently working with the Vienna Staatsoper, has proven his talents as a choreographer on many occasions in the past years. The amended version of his composition Whirling bears all the qualities and harmony of the original piece. .