The Joyce to Welcome Hong Kong Ballet

The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (Linda Shelton, Executive Director) is proud to present one of Asia's premier ballet companies, Hong Kong Ballet, making its Joyce debut with a program featuring works by such esteemed choreographers as National Ballet of China resident choreographer Fei Bo, artistic director of the Polish National Ballet Krzysztof Pastor and world renowned choreographer Nacho Duato. Tickets range in price from $10-$60 and can be purchased at www.Joyce.org, or by calling JoyceCharge at 212-242-0800. Please note: ticket prices are subject to change. The Joyce Theater is located at 175 Eighth Avenue at 19th Street. For more information, please visit www.Joyce.org.

The internationally recognized Hong Kong Ballet presents Fei Bo's dream like pas de trois from A Room of Her Own which was originally created in 2011 and is performed by two women and one man. Based on Virginia Woolf's groundbreaking 1929 feminist essay, "A Room of One's Own," this piece is set to a live recording of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor, performed by cellist Jacqueline Du Pré and the London Symphony Orchestra. A Room of Her Own dramatizes the story of a woman's struggle to confront her jealousy over her husband's inappropriate friendship with another woman. Krzysztof Pastor's 2000 piece, In Light and Shadow, inspired by Rembrandt and Vermeer paintings and also by Baroque dances, is set to Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations as well as variations BWV 988, Orchestral Suite No.3 in D and BWV 1068, and consists of intricate solos, duets and ensembles. Nacho Duato's Castrati (2002) is performed by nine of Hong Kong Ballet's male dancers to a score melding Antonio Vivaldi's romantic classicism with Welsh composer Karl Jenkins 's contemporary sounds. Evoking the period in music history when women were banned from singing in church, which prompted the practice of castrating young boys to prolong their ability to sing soprano roles, Castrati combines strong movement with a disquieting androgynous sensibility.