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Shéhérazade
The Monaco Dance Forum commissioned a new interpretation of Scheherazade by the choreographer, which – in Fokine’s vision – was performed by the Ballets Russes in 1910 with Nijinsky, whom audiences at the Paris Opéra immediately took to their hearts. Fokine’s version is set in Baghdad between the 6th and 9th centuries. The music for this ballet was composed by Zakir Hussain, who reinterprets Rimsky-Korsakov’s original score with ancient oriental instruments. The show evokes the alternation of night and day, listening and the art of storytelling: it is a reflection on the temporality found only in a thousand and one nights. Alonzo King sets outs to make the story of “Scheherazade” moving but also sensual. The fluid and energetic movement, which is the choreographer’s hallmark, draws an inventive and powerfully carnal guideline, visible in the quality of movement that Alonzo King is able to inspire so successfully in his dancers.
Source: Maison de la Danse venue programme
“‘Scheherazade’ is the symbol of the saviour. She weaves stories not to save her own life but to save humanity from the vengeance that is its perpetual response to wounding.”
Alonzo King
