Alice im Wunderland | Jully | © Stephan Walzl
Ballett Impulsiv III | Jully | © Stephan Walzl
Die Kunst der Fuge | Jully | © Stephan Walzl
How to pass, kick, fall and run | Cunningham | © Stephan Walzl
Les Boréades | Jully | © Stephan Walzl
OGAMI | Hulot | © Stephan Walzl
The BallettCompagnie Oldenburg was founded in season 2014/15. Initially Antoine Jully was the chief choreographer of the company, since the season 2017/18 he also is ballet director. By now 14 dancers from ten nations are dancing in the company. All dancers are classical trained, but also have experiences and share willingness and joy for modern dance styles. For his own creations Antoine Jully often searches for compositions, which has never been danced before. In his physical choreographic language - in between neoclassical ballet and modern dance - he also pays attention to the pointe shoe work and is trying to find new ways of interpreting that element. Contemporary choreographers such as Ashley Page, Guillaume Hulot, Martin Chaix, Luca Veggetti, Alessandra Corti and Hae-Kyung Lee are invited to work with the company and to create new dance pieces. Another aim of the company’s work is to represent creations from the modern dance history every season. The company restaged already choreographies from Alwin Nikolais, Lar Lubovitch, Félix Blaska, Bill T. Jones, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham.
In particular is to highlight the collaboration with choreographer Martin Schläpfer, from whom BallettCompagnie Oldenburg danced his creations ‘Ramifications‘ and ‘Quartz‘ in season 2016/17. In season 2017/18 the dancers worked on his choreography ‘Violakonzert‘, Martin Schläpfer recreated the third movement for a new version for Oldenburg.
Every two years BallettCompagnie Oldenburg hosts the festival ‘Internationale Tanztage‘, under the direction of Burkard Nemitz, where dance will take place in all venues from Oldenburgisches Staatstheater and dance companies and soloists from all over the world get presented.
Antoine Jully
Antoine Jully was born in Paris and studied dance among others at Conservatoire Marius Petipa, Conservatoire National Superior de Musique et de Danse de Paris and at Junior Ballet. He was a company member of the ballet of L’Opéra National de Paris, Royal Ballet London and Ballet d’Europe. In 2005 Antoine Jully came to Germany and started working with ballettmainz and choreographer Martin Schläpfer. From 2009 till 2014 he was a dancer at the well known Ballett am Rhein under the artistic direction of Martin Schläpfer. As a dancer Antoine Jully worked with many different choreographers including Twyla Twarp, Ashley Page, Hans van Manen, Paul Lightfoot, Mats Ek, Regina van Berkel and Martin Schläpfer. Since 2000 he is also working as a choreographer and created the choreographies ‘Cercle de vie‘ (Ballet d’Europe), and for the Ballett am Rhein ‘Inside‘ (2012), ‘Rebound-Topple-Splash‘ (2013) and ‘Hidden Features‘ (2014). Since season 2014/15 Antoine Jully is working as the chief choreographer for the BallettCompagnie of Oldenburgisches Staatstheater, within the beginning of season 2017/18 he also represents the company as the ballet director. For his pieces he is not only creating the choreography and its dramaturgy, but rather designs often also the costumes and plans the stage design, occasionally he even composes and arranges the music. In his first season he created the ballet evenings ‘Deca-Deci/L’Arlésienne‘, ‘Die schönste aller Welten‘ - ‚Favorite Worlds‘ and ‚Ein Blick – Ein Fenster‘, ‘Mosaik in der Nacht/Jurassic Trip' and ‘The Litlle Prince'. In season 2015/16 he premiered the works ‘Dumbarton Oaks’, ‘Artikulation’ and ‘Generation Y’ as well as the public project ‘City Moves’. He created world premieres for the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater in season 2016/17 such as ‘4 Seasons’ as a co-production with the theatre’s choir, ‘Concertante’, ‘Begegnen ohne sich zu sehen’ and ‘Men and Women’. For the season 2017/18 his creations ‘Is this it?’ and ‘Harmonic Language’ already premiered, two more will follow. As part of the education projects of the Oldenburgisches Staatstheater he choreographed ‘One’ (2016) for the dance club for teenagers, this season he is creating ’Dance through Generations’ for a dance club for all ages. The prestigious dance magazine ‘tanz’ honored him already twice as “those, who hopefully change the future” (die hoffentlich die Zukunft bewegen) and “hope” (Hoffnungsträger) in 2012 and 2013. Arnd Wesemann, well known editor for ’tanz’ magazine, named him as one of the new choreographer generation in the yearbook ‘tanz’ for 2015/16.
Productions from the 2021/2022 season
Die Kunst der Fuge (2019)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach
Musical arrangement: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
14 dancers
Duration: 85 minutes
Stage dimensions: 10,60 x 8,12 m
Alice im Wunderland (2021)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Alfred Schnittke and Philip Glass
14 dancers
Duration: 75 minutes
Stage dimensions: 16 x 10,40 m
Verklärte Nacht (2022)
Choreography: Guillaume Hulot, Antoine Jully, Merce Cunningham
Duration: 120 minutes
In it:
OGAMI (2022)
Choreography: Guillaume Hulot
Music: Piotr I. Tchaikovsky
7 dancers
Verklärte Nacht (2022)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Arnold Schönberg, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester
6 dancers
How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (1965)
Choreography: Merce Cunningham
Music: John Cage
8 dancers, 2 speakers
Stage dimensions: 16 x 10,40 m
Ballett impulsiv III (2022)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Duration: 75 minutes
Stage dimensions 16 x 10.40 m
In it:
Paquita (solo from the 3rd act) (1882)
Choreography: after Marius Petipa
Music: Ludwig Minkus
1 dancer
Duration: ca. 1 min
Spiegel (2022)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Gunnar Brandt-Sigurdsson
2 dancers
Duration: 2:40 Min
Don Quixote (Wedding Pas de deux) (1871)
Choreography: after Marius Petipa
Music: Ludwig Minkus
2 dancers
Duration: 8:09 Min
La non-demande en mariage (2015)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Georges Brassens
6 dancers
Duration: 4:18 Min
Grand pas classique (Solo) (1949)
Choreography: after Victor Gsovsky
Music: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber
1 dancer
Duration: 1:07 Min
Kunst der Fuge (No. 13) (2019)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: without/ in silence
2 dancers
Duration: 4:22 MIn
Les mots (2015)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Boris Vian
1 dancer
Duration: 3:03 min
Le Corsaire (1915)
Choreography: after Samuil Andrianov
Music: Ricardo Drigo
2 dancers
Duration: 3:12 Min
The Dying Poet (2022)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
1 dancer
Duration: 7:39 Min
Weight (2022)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Einojuhani Rautavaara
6 dancers
Duration: 5:22 Min
Little Fado (2022)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Manuel Vincente
1 dancer
Duration: 3:14 MIn
Die Sieben letzten Worte (2018)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Joseph Haydn
3 dancers
Duration: 9:24 Min
Com que voz (2020)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Amália Rodriguez
1 dancer
Duration: 3:17 Min
Grand Tarantelle (2020)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Louis Moreau Gottschalk
11 dancers
Duration: 7:36
Les Boréades (1982)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Director: Christoph von Bernuth
Composer: Jean-Phillippe Rameau, librettist unknown (attributed to Louis de Cahusac)
Opera choir, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester
10 dancers, 11 actors/singers
Duration: 180 minutes
Stage dimensions: 16 x 10,40 m
Productions of the 2020/2021 season
1,5m (2020)
Choreography: Antoine Jully, August Bournonville, Laura Cristea, Francesco Fasano, Seu Kim, Nicol Omezzolli, Marius Petipa
Duration: 75 minutes
Stage dimensions: 16 x 10.40 m
In it:
Coppélia (solos and coda from the 3rd act) (1884)
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Léo Délibes
2 dancers
Duration: 4 min.
Paquita (solo from the 2nd act) (1847)
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Ludwig Minkus
1 dancer
Duration 1 min.
Arépo (from "Mosaik in der Nacht") (2015)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Hugues Le Bars'
2 dancers
Duration: 2 min.
Swan at home (2020)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Camille Saint Saëns
1 dancer
Duration: 3:08
Is this it? (2017)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Asaf Avidan
1 dancer
Duration: ca. 7 min
La Sylphide (solo from act 1) (1836)
Choreography: August Bournonville
Music: Herman Severin Løvenskiold
1 dancer
Duration: 1 min
Le sacre du printemps (Danse sacrale) (2019)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Igor Stravinsky
1 dancer
Duration: 4:37 Min
Borders (2020)
Choreography: Seu Kim
Music: Hugues Le Bars
1 dancer
Duration: 3:26 Min
L'Arlésienne (2014)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Georges Bizet
1 dancer
Duration: 3:02 Min
What if i lose you? (2020)
Choreography: Nicol Omezzolli
Music; Hugues Le Bars'
1 dancer
Duration: 3:50 min
La Sylphide (solo from act 2) (1836)
Choreography: August Bournonville
Music: Herman Severin Løvenskiold
1 dancer
Duration: 1 min
Esmeralda (Variation) (1886)
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Riccardo Drigo
1 dancer
Duration: 1 min
Avec le temps (From "Vanitas") (2020)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Léo Ferrè
1 dancer
Duration: 4:25 Min
New Piece (2020)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Hoghes Le Bars
1 dancer
Locked down (2020)
Choreography: Laura Cristea
Music: Collage
1 dancer
Duration: 2 min
Schwanensee (solo from the 3rd act) (1895)
Choreography: Marius Petipa
Music: Peter I. Tchaikovsky
1 dancer
Duration: 1:22 Min
Com que voz (2020)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Amália Rodriguez
1 dancer
Duration: 3:17 Min
Bébé funk (2020)
Choreography: Francesco Fasano
Music: Hugues Le Bars
2 dancers
Duration: 2:40 Min
Artikulation (2015)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: György Ligeti
1 dancer
Duration: 5 Min
Alice im Wunderland (2021)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Music: Alfred Schnittke and Philip Glass
14 dancers
Duration: 75 minutes
Stage dimensions: 16 x 10,40 m
Apartment 7a (2020)
Choreography: Alessandra Corti
Music: Anton Berman
4 dancers
Duration: 60 minutes
Stage dimensions: 10,60 x 8,12 m
Productions of the 2017/2018 season
Premiers:
Drei Generationen
From the Lighthouse (2017)
choreography: Lester René González Álvarez
music: Johann Pätzold (commission)
7 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m, duration 22 min
Is this it? (2017)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Asaf Avidan
2 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m, duration 11 min
Tensile Involvement (1953)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: 4. string quartet, Béla Bártok
9 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m, duration 24 min
Schläpfer/Jully/Blaska
Violakonzert (2002/04)
choreography: Martin Schläpfer
music: concert for viola and orchestra, Alfred Schnittke
13 dancers, stage 16 x 10,40 m, duration 35 min
Tam Tam et P:ercussion (1970)
choreography Félix Blaska
music: Pierre Cheriza Fenelus, Jean-Pierre Drouet
13 dancers und 2 musicians, stage 16 x 10,40 m, duration ca. 20 min
Der Tod und das Mädchen (2018)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: 14. Streichquartett, Franz Schubert
13 dancers and 4 musicians, stage 16 x 10,40 m, duration ca. 45 min
Die Sieben letzten Worte (2018)
choreography: Antoine Jully, Raphael Hillebrand
music: Die Sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze, Joseph Haydn
13 dancers, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, stage 16 x 10,40 m, duration ca. 60 min
Scheherazade erzählt – aus 1001 Nacht (2018)
choreography: Eleonora Fabrizi
music: Nikolai Rimski-Korsakow, Claude Debussy, u.a.
12 dancers, duration ca. 50 min
Studio Moves (2018)
Penseur
choreography: Timothée Cuny
music: Pierlucien
Paradigme
choreography: Maelenn Le Dorze
Palm Trees and Cherry Blooms
choreography: Floriado Komino
resumption
Generation Y (2016)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: 5. Sinfonie op. 74, Malcolm Arnold
11 dancers, stage 16 x 10,40 m, duration: 33 min
Deca-Deci (2014)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Andrei Eschpai, 5. Sinfonie
10 dancers, stage 16 x 10,40 m, duration 25 min
Productions of the 2016/2017 season
Men and Women (2017)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: 6. Sinfonie, Allan Petterson
12 dancers, Oldenburgische Staatsorchester, stage 16 x 10,40 m, approx. 70 min
Schläpfer / Jully (4 Parts)
Concertante / Ramifications / Quartz / Begegnen ohne sich zu sehen
Concertante (2016)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Concertante, op. 42, György Kurtág
9 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m
Ramifications (2005)
choreography: Martin Schläpfer
music: Ramifications, György Ligeti
1 dancer, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m
Quartz (2008)
choreography: Martin Schläpfer
music: Ghostyhead, Ricky Lee Jones, traditional Albanian folk music – Ku Verove verën-o, City of Quartz, Marianne Faithfull
2 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m
Begegnen ohne sich zu sehen (2016)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: 1. und 2. Sinfonie von C.P.E. Bach, Music from the Band for all pieces
10 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m
100 min (altogether)
Imago Suite / 4 Seasons (2 Parts)
Imago Suite (1963)
choreography: Alwin Nikolais
music: Alwin Nikolais, vom Band
11 dancers, stage: 16 x 10,40 m, 35 min
4 Seasons (2016)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Chorwerke von Paul Hindemith, Eric Whitacre, Pēteris Vasks und Max Reger
12 dancers, Opernchor des Oldenburgischen Staatstheater, stage 16 x 10,40 m, 40 min
Der Kleine Prinz (2015)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Joby Talbot et al.
10 dancers, stage 10,90 x 11,50 m, 40 min
Productions of the 2015/2016 season
D - Man in the Waters / Generation Y (2 Parts)
D - Man in the Waters (1989)
choreography: Bill T. Jones
music: Streichoktett Es-Dur, op. 20 von Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
9 dancers,stage 16 x 10,40 m, approx. 45 min
Generation Y (2016)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Sinfonie Nr. 5, op. 74 von Malcolm Arnold, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, stage 16 x 10,40 m, approx. 33 min
City Moves (2016)
Choreography: Antoine Jully
Stage: 10,60 x 8,12 m
Dumbarton Oaks / Artikulation (UA) / Marimba / N.N. (4 Parts)
Dumbarton Oaks (2013)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: "Dumbarton Oaks" von Igor Strawinsky
10 dancers, stage 16 x 10,40 m, 14.01 min
Artikulation (2015)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: "Artikulation" from György Ligeti
1 dancer, stage 16 x 10,40 m, 3.49 min
Marimba (1976)
choreography: Lar Lubovitch
music: "Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ" from Steve Reich
10 dancers, stage 16 x 10,40 m, 18 min
N.N. (2015)
choreography: Ashley Page
music: "Son of Chamber Symphony" from John Adams
7 dancers, stage 16 x 10,40 m, 23.41 min
Der Kleine Prinz (2015)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Joby Talbot u. a.
10 dancers, stage 10,90 x 11,50 m, 40 min
Die schönste aller Welten (2015)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Chopin
10 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m, length not stated.
Productions of the 2014/2015 season
Der kleine Prinz (2015)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Joby Talbot et al.
10 dancers, stage 10,90 x 11,50 m, 40 min
Mosaik in der Nacht / Jurassic Trip (2015)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Hugues le Bars, Guillaume Connesson
10 dancers, stage 16 x 10,40 m, length not stated
Die Schönste aller Welten (2015)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Chopin
10 dancers, stage 10,60 x 8,12 m, length not stated
Deca - Deci / L‘Arlésienne (2014)
choreography: Antoine Jully
music: Andrei Eschpai, Georges Bizet
10 dancers, Oldenburgisches Staatsorchester, stage 16 x 10,40 m, 90 min
Die Kunst der Fuge
Alice im Wunderland
Verklärte Nacht
Ballett impulsiv III
Les Boréades
Oldenburgisches Staatstheater
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