8–17 JANUARY 2016
Carlos Acosta and Zenaida Yanowsky
dance Will Tuckett’s opulent full-length work of dance, music and theatre,
exploring the life and loves of Queen Elizabeth I
This dynamic exploration of the
Tudor monarch for dancers and actor uses texts written by Elizabeth and her
contemporaries, and a commissioned score that draws on music of the great
Elizabethan composers.
Elizabeth was
commissioned by The Royal Ballet for a 2013 gala performance in the Painted
Hall of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich – birthplace of the work’s
subject, Queen Elizabeth I. Choreographer Will Tuckett and playwright and
librettist Alasdair Middleton co-directed this special performance, which
brought together dancers Zenaida Yanowsky and Carlos Acosta, and actor Lindsay
Duncan, in its exploration of the life and loves of this powerful queen.
Middleton and Tuckett took their
original inspiration from the writings of Queen Elizabeth herself. As Tuckett
explains, ‘Her love of dance, the arts and her quick-witted, wicked sense of
humour are all evident in her own writing… I felt that dance could provide
another take on how these elements and this extraordinary woman could be
viewed’. Middleton’s script draws on Elizabeth’s writings and those of her
contemporaries, among them Sir Walter Raleigh, François, Duc d’Anjou, and
Robert Devereux. The commissioned score by Martin Yates (Don
Quixote), written for cello and baritone in a modern reimagining of
a typical Tudor-period ensemble, re-creates the structures and harmonies of
music by the great Elizabethan composers, including John Dowland, Thomas Tallis
and Thomas Morley.
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