Joined by members of staff in the English National Ballet Team on Zoom, we will be having a watch party and viewing the two works to be explored throughout the term. This will be a free opportunity for all participants to join.
We’ll be watching Jolly Folly and Senseless Kindness – read more about the pieces below!
Jolly Folly
Arielle Smith’s Jolly Folly is like your favourite dance number in an old movie musical: fast-paced, surprising, and full of uncontainable energy. Inspired by playful silent films of 1920s and 1930s Hollywood, Director Amy Becker-Burnett creates an elegantly mesmerising aesthetic that feels both timeless and fresh.
Senseless Kindness
Senseless Kindness, choreographed Yuri Possokhov, by is based on Vasily Grossman’s great novel, Life and Fate, about a Russian family caught in the Second World War, and is set to Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No1.Using bold lighting and a stark, textured black and white approach, director Thomas James’s poetic and elegant film reveals the frantic endurance of the human spirit to endure, and to enjoy.