Be wise, taste wines and adjusts your boundless hope to the cup of life, which is small. Even as we speak cruel time flees jealous. Harvest the present day, the morrow is uncertain. Seize the day. Carpe Diem Quam Minimum Credula Postero. (Quintus Horatius Flaccus 65–8 b.C.)
Liudmila Konovalova Людмила Коновалова, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Wiener StaatsBallett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria.
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Liudmila Konovalova Людмила Коновалова, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Wiener StaatsBallett Vienna State Ballet, Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Austria.
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Megan Zimny Kaftira and Remi Wörtmeyer, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreo and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Megan Zimny Kaftira, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
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Lesley Rausch and Emma Suddarth, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, US.
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Igone de Jongh (former principal Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet) and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet (former principal Dresden Semperoper Ballett), “On the Nature of Daylight” choreography, concept, staging, stage and light by David Dawson, music by Max Richter costume design by Yumiko Takeshima, assistant to the choreographer: Tim Couchman, 2014 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 28).
Sarah Pasch, Lesley Rausch and Emma Suddarth, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, US.
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Sasha Mukhamedov (today at San Francisco Ballet) and James Stout, “Tristan + Isolde” (rehearsal), choreography, concept and staging by David Dawson, music by Szymon Brzóska, set design by Eno Henze, costume design by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, light design by Bert Dalhuysen, choreographic assistants: Tim Couchman and Rebecca Gladstone. From program “Made in Amsterdam”, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, 2018 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia. (April 10).
World premiere on February 15, 2015, Semperoper Ballett, Saxon State Opera, Semperoper, Dresden, Germany.
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Floor Eimers, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Sasha Mukhamedov (today at San Francisco Ballet) and James Stout, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Igone de Jongh and James Stout, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Lindsi Dec and William Lin-Yee, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Lindsi Dec, “A Million Kisses to my Skin”, choreography and concept by David Dawson, music by Johann Sebastian Bach (Concerto Nº 1 in D Minor, BWV 1052), costume by Yumiko Takeshima 竹島 由美子, staging by Tim Couchman, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Première on June 15, 2000 by Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet at Het Muziektheater, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Anna Tsygankova Анна Цыганкова and James Stout, “On the Nature of Daylight” choreography, concept, staging, stage and light by David Dawson, music by Max Richter costume design by Yumiko Takeshima, assistant to the choreographer: Tim Couchman, 2019 Russian Ballet Icons Gala, London Coliseum, London, England (March 31, 2019)
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Igone de Jongh (Het Nationale Ballet/Dutch National Ballet) and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet (Dresden Semperoper Ballett), “On the Nature of Daylight” choreography, concept, staging, stage and light by David Dawson, music by Max Richter costume design by Yumiko Takeshima, assistant to the choreographer: Tim Couchman, 2014 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 28)
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Igone de Jongh (Het Nationale Ballet/Dutch National Ballet) and Raphaël Coumes-Marquet (Dresden Semperoper Ballett), “On the Nature of Daylight” choreography, concept, staging, stage and light by David Dawson, music by Max Richter costume design by Yumiko Takeshima, assistant to the choreographer: Tim Couchman, 2014 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 28)
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Sasha Mukhamedov and James Stout, “Tristan + Isolde” choreography, concept and staging by David Dawson, music by Szymon Brzóska, set design by Eno Henze, costume design by Yumiko Takeshima, light design by Bert Dalhuysen, choreographic assistants: Tim Couchman and Rebecca Gladstone from “Made in Amsterdam”, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet, 2018 Dance Open Ballet Festival, Alexandrinsky Theatre, Saint Petersburg, Russia (April 10)
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Sasha Mukhamedov and James Stout, “Tristan + Isolde” choreography, concept and staging by David Dawson, music by Szymon Brzóska, set design by Eno Henze, costume design by Yumiko Takeshima, light design by Bert Dalhuysen, choreographic assistants: Tim Couchman and Rebecca Gladstone, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet (rehearsal)
Sasha Mukhamedov and James Stout, “Tristan + Isolde” choreography, concept and staging by David Dawson, music by Szymon Brzóska, set design by Eno Henze, costume design by Yumiko Takeshima, light design by Bert Dalhuysen, choreographic assistants: Tim Couchman and Rebecca Gladstone, Het Nationale Ballet Dutch National Ballet (rehearsal)
Ballet: The Best Photographs 