DORNRÖSCHEN | Choreography Ivan Alboresi | © Ida Zenna
HUMPBACK RUNNER | Choreography Jiři Pokorný | © Ida Zenna
DORNRÖSCHEN | Choreography Ivan Alboresi | © Ida Zenna
HUMPBACK RUNNER | Choreography Jiři Pokorný | © Ida Zenna
The ballet TN LOS! currently consists of 12 dancers. The company, which includes dancers from 7 nations, is directed by Ivan Alboresi since the 2016/2017 season. In the 2023/2024 season, the company will present three new productions as well as a BALLET GALA as a prelude to the season. In the »Ballett hautnah« series, the audience has the special opportunity to experience a moderated rehearsal with the creative team as an introduction to the current production.
With the dancers of Ballett TN LOS!, ballet director Ivan Alboresi has a ballet company whose outstanding reputation now extends far beyond the borders of Nordhausen. In the renowned magazine TANZ, the company was nominated as Company of the Year for the double »Der Feuervogel/Humpback Runner«. Volkmar Draeger described the evening as »brilliant in terms of dance and acrobatics, stylistically versatile and explosive in terms of performance«. In addition to this magnificent double ballet evening, the TN LOS! ballet also impressed audiences last season with its interpretation of Johannes Brahms' »Ein Deutsches Requiem« in the St. Blasii Church, which was always sold out. The standing ovations at every performance spoke for themselves.
The company's branding are powerful, acrobatic, full of emotions and visually stunning ballet evenings. The dancers are also an essential pillar of the operetta and musical productions of the Theater Nordhausen/Loh-Orchester Sondershausen GmbH. Internationally successful guest choreographers such as Kevin O'Day, Marguerite Donlon, Itzik Galili, Douglas Lee, Jiři Pokorný, Giovanni Insaudio, Max Levy, Tu Hoang and Hiro Murata expand the company's expressive possibilities and constantly place new, unusual demands on the ensemble. An artistic engagement in the Nordhausen company requires a profound classical as well as modern training.
On the history of the ensemble
The Nordhausen Theater, which opened in 1917, has had its own ballet company since 1954. It staged one to two productions a year, and in the 1990s even three of its own. From 2004 to 2016, Jutta Ebnother was ballet director in Nordhausen and established the Nordhausen Ballet Days (Nordhäuser Balletttage), which still enjoy great popularity today. Ivan Alboresi, born in Italy, has been ballet director in Nordhausen since 2016. He wants to have an impact on the city, network with the people of the region, and at the same time invite internationally successful choreographers to work with his ensemble in order to also highlight current trends in the multifaceted world of dance.
Ivan Alboresi completed his dance education (classical, modern) at the Accademia del Teatro Nuovo di Torino and at the John Cranko School in Stuttgart. His engagements as a dancer took him to theaters such as Wiesbaden, Ulm and St. Gallen. 2001-2014 he was a permanent member of the ballet company of the Mainfranken Theater Würzburg. He has worked with choreographers Heinz Spoerli, Youri Vámos, Ben van Cauwenbergh, Anna Vita and Birgit Scherzer, among others. Since 2006 he has been working as a choreographer and director at various theaters. His work, for which he would receive several awards, led him to the Opera Nice, the Landestheater Linz, the Theater Erfurt and the Theater Hof, among others.
„Dance is honest, dance cannot lie, dance turns your innermost thoughts outside.”
"Always searching for the quality of movement that captures the emotional essence of each moment in each case, I improvise, seeking to adapt the movements to the dancers until the image I have in my mind becomes visible through them. Strong emotional images, created with a large repertoire of movements of the dancers, touching and captivating - and with high perfection - are my goal."
Ivan Alboresi
Productions from the 2023/2024 season
DORNRÖSCHEN
Ballet by Ivan Alboresi
Music by Peter I. Tchaikovsky
World premiere: 4 November 2023, Theater Nordhausen, Theater im Anbau
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Scenography: Wolfgang Kurima Rauschning
Costumes: Anja Schulz-Hentrich
With the Loh Orchestra Sondershausen under the musical direction of Michael Helmrath
12 dancers
Stage dimensions: 10m x 10m
Duration: 1 hour, 40 minutes, break after 60 minutes
LES NOCES - NACHT/GEDANKEN
Ballet double bill by Ivan Alboresi and Martin Harriague
World premiere: 23 February 2024, Theater Nordhausen, Theater im Anbau
Choreography: Martin Harriague (Les Noces), Ivan Alboresi (Nacht/Gedanken)
12 dancers
Stage dimensions: 10m x 10m
Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes, break after 30 minutes
DREI!
With choreographies by Giovanni Insaudo, Max Levy and Tu Hoang & Hiro Murata
World premiere: May 17, 2024
Choreography: (I) Giovanni Insaudo, (II) Max Levy, (III) Tu Hoang & Hiro Murata
12 dancers
Stage dimensions: 10m x 10m
Duration: 1 hour, 2 breaks of 10 minutes each
Productions from the 2022/2023 season
Johannes Brahms
EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Ballet by Ivan Alboresi
Premiere: 14 October 2022, St. Blasii Church, Nordhausen
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
With the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen under the musical direction of Michael Helmrath
Soprano: Yuval Oren / Baritone: Philipp Franke
Opera choir of the Theater Nordhausen / Nordhäuser Kantorei
13 dancers
Stage dimensions: 8 by 10 meters
Duration: approx. 1 hour and 15 minutes, no intermission
Ivan Alboresi
WINTERREISE oder Stationen einer Flucht
Music by Franz Schubert and Davidson Jaconello
Premiere: October 23, 2020, Theater Nordhausen
Revival: January 7, 2023, Theater im Stadthaus, Rudolstadt
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Baritone: Philipp Franke / Piano: Youngrang Kim
12 dancers
Stage dimensions: 9 ½ by 9 meters
Duration: approx. 1 hour and 30 minutes, no intermission
DOUBLE EVENING:
Ivan Alboresi
DER FEUERVOGEL
Music by Igor Stravinsky
Premiere: February 17, 2023, House of Art, Sondershausen
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
13 dancers
Stage dimensions: 10 by 9 meters
Duration: 45 minutes
Jiři Pokorný
HUMPBACK RUNNER
Music Yukari Sawaki / Hayden Calnin / Joanna Newsom / Biosphere
Premiere: November 2016 Nederlands Dans Theater 2
11 dancers
Stage dimensions: 10 by 9 meters
Duration: 27 minutes
Productions from the 2019/2020 season
Ballettgala (2019)
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi & guests
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Duration: ca 100 min
Cinderella (2019)
First showing: 1945
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Music: Sergej Prokofjew, Cinderella op. 87, Ballet in 3 acts, editing: Daryl Griffith (reduced version)
12 dancers and the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Duration: ca 100 min
Tanz! "…oder zerbrechlich in unserem Inneren"" (2020)
Double ballet evening
1. part: "inside us" (First showing 2020)
2. part: "Fragile" (First showing 1997) and "Or" (first showing 2010)
Choreography: 1. part: Ivan Alboresi; 2. part: Itzik Galili
Composition 1. part: Max Richter, Ezio Bosso, Philip Glass, Matresanch, Frédéric Chopin, Domenico Scarlatti, Camille Dalmais
Composition 2. part: Gavin Bryars, Percossa
12 dancers
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Duration: ca 100 min
FREI(d)RÄUME IV - Junge Choreografen (2020)
Chamber dance evening
Choreography & music: members of the ballet ensemble TN LOS!
12 dancers
Stage: w 8m x d 8m
Duration: ca 75 min
Nordhäuser Balletttage (2020)
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi & guests
12 dancers & guests
Duration: ca 100 min
Involvement in operetta, musical:
Evita (2019)
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Music: Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber
8 dancers
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Gauchos, Chicas, Cha-cha-cha: Nordhäuser Bühnenball (2020)
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Music: Achim Lenz
11 dancers
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Die lustige Witwe (2020)
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Music: Franz Lehár
8 dancers
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Musketiere (2020)
(Thüringer Schlossfestspiele Sondershausen)
Performance & choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Music: Rob Bolland/Ferdi Bolland
12 dancers
Productions from the 2018/2019 season
Ballettgala (2018)
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi & guests
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Duration: ca 100 min
Ein Sommernachtstraum (2018)
Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Compositionen: Philip Glass, concert for cembalo and orchestra,
F. M. Bartholdy, overture and theatrical music „Ein Sommernachtstraum“,
F. M. Bartholdy, extracts from the symphonies no. 4 A-major op. 90, and no. 5 d-minor op. 107
12 dancers and the Loh-Orchester Sondershausen
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Duration: ca 100 min
Kontraste (2019)
1. part: Der Tod und das Mädchen (First showing 2019)
2. part: Riff Celts XL (german first showing 2019)
Choreography: 1. part: Ivan Alboresi; 2. part: Marguerite Donlon
Music 1. part: Stefan Levin, „Negro con Flores“
F. Schubert, Streichquartett D 810
Music 2. part: Sam Auinger, Sinéad O’Connor, Luke Kelly, Kila" 12 dancers & Loh-Orchesters Sondershausen string quartet
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Duration: ca 100 min
Frei(t)räume III: Junge Choreografen
Choreography & music: Members of the ballet ensemble TN LOS!
12 dancers
Stage: w 8m x d 8m
Duration: ca 75 min
Involvement in operetta, musical:
Cabaret (2018)
Performance & Choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Music: John Kander
10 dancers
Stage: w 9m x d 11m
Jesus Christ Superstar (2019)
(Thüringer Schlossfestspiele Sondershausen)
Performance & choreography: Ivan Alboresi
Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
12 dancers
Productions from the 2014/2015 season
Emotionen getanzter Art (2015)
Choreography: members of the ballet company
stage 8 x 9 m
Die vier Jahreszeiten (2015)
Choreography and libretto: Jochen Heckmann, Martin Chaix, Composition: A. Vivaldi
6 dancers, stage 15 x 12,50 m, 93 min
Ente, Tod und Tulpe (2014)
Choreography: Jutta Ebnother, Libretto: Wolf Erlbruch, Composition: Leo Dick
2 dancers, stage 8 x 9 m, 40 min
Giselle (2014)
Choreography: Jutta Ebnother, Composition: Adolphe Adam, Libretto: Théophile Gautier, Jules Henri Vernoy de Saint Georges and Jean Coralli
12 dancers, 1 actor, stage 15 x 12,50 m, 100 min
Participation in:
Die Banditen operetta
Die Päpstin musical
Carmen opera
Productions from the 2013/2014 season
What a Feeling (2014)
Choreography and libretto: Jutta Ebnother, Composition: Giogio Moroder, Martin Gore, Dean Pitchford, Ed Cobb, Gavin Spencer, Ferdinand und Robert Bolland, Michael Sembello, George Douglas, Elliot Wolff, Billy Steinberg, J. S. Bach, Michael Gore and others
12 dancers, 8 dancing background actors, stage 15 x 12,50 m, 72 min
Ereignisse getanzter Art (2014)
Choreography: Auke Swen, David Roßteutscher, Fumiko Okusawa, Irene López Ros, Magdalena Pawelec, David Roßteutscher, Alessandra La Bella, András Dobi, András Virág
stage 8 x 9 m, 50 min
Shakespeare. Ein Ballett (2013)
Choreography and Libretto: Jutta Ebnother, Music: Henry Purcell, Chaconne, F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Craig Armstrong, Nellee Hooper, Marius de Vries, Jules Massenet, Edward Elgar, L. v. Beethoven, Nino Rota, Benjamin Britten, Henry Purcell
12 dancers, stage 15 x 12,50 m, 73 min
Participation in:
Der Vogelhändler operetta of Carl Zeller
Hinter den Kulissen von Paris Nordhäuser Bühnenball 2014
Singin‘ in the Rain musical
My Fair Lady
EIN DEUTSCHES REQUIEM
Theater Nordhausen/Loh-Orchester GmbH
Theater im Anbau
99734 Nordhausen, Wolfstraße 16
Telefon 03631 62600
