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Watch Woolf Works ballet online until July 10

Posted in events, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando, performance, The Waves, You Tube, tagged , , , on Saturday 27 June 2020| 1 Comment »

Available on YouTube from now until July 10 is the Royal Ballet’s performance of Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works, a triptych created in 2015.

Featuring music by Max Richter, the ballet received critical acclaim, winning McGregor the Critics’ Circle Award for Best Classical Choreography and the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production.

Inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf, Woolf Works is based on three of Woolf’s novels: Mrs Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves and weaves in elements from her letters, essays and diaries. The ballet looks at both her life and her work.

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A review of Woolf Works on the SuchFriends Blog

Posted in Virginia Woolf, Woolf events, tagged , , , , , on Monday 6 February 2017| 1 Comment »

Kathleen Dixon Donnelly of the Such Friends blog has reviewed the Royal Ballet’s current production of Woolf Works. Since we aren’t located across the Pond and haven’t had the opportunity to attend, we are reblogging Kathleen’s review here. Thanks, Kathleen!

When the Royal Ballet premiered Wayne McGregor’s Woolf Works last year, I left it too late, and by the time I tried to book it was sold out. Bummer. So when it came around again, I was determined t…

Source: ‘Such Friends’: Woolf Works | SuchFriends Blog

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Woolf Works revival comes to London

Posted in events, tagged , , on Thursday 12 January 2017| 1 Comment »

Woolf Works, the first revival of Wayne McGregor’s critically acclaimed ballet triptych to music inspired by the works of Virginia Woolf, is playing at London’s Royal Opera House from Jan. 21 to Feb. 14.

With music by Max Richter and starring Alessandra Ferri and Mara Galeazzi, the ballet focuses on thee Woolf novels, Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves. For each, Richter found a unique musical language, with each individual piece connecting with the others for a unifying whole.

The Mrs. Dalloway section opens with the unique 1937 BBC recording of Woolf’s own voice reading her essay “On Craftmanship.” Her radio appearance was part of a BBC series called “Words Fail Me.”

Woolf Works was first presented in London in May 2015 to rave reviews.

What a brilliant, creative human being Virginia Woolf was. It’s been extraordinary once again to have the chance to be engaged in the matters that troubled her, the questions she wrestled with and the visionary quality of the answers she discovered. – Max Richter on how he composed the score for Woolf Works

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Study Woolf: Review of Woolf Works, Royal Opera House, May 13, 2015

Posted in Mrs. Dalloway, music, performance, Virginia Woolf, tagged , , on Friday 22 May 2015| 1 Comment »

Below is a comment from Elisa Kay Sparks and a link to her review of Woolf Works.

Dear All-
I’ve finished my review/ explication of Woolf Works, the new Wayne MacGregor ballet I was lucky enough to get to see in London.  All the time I was watching it, I was wishing all of you were in the audience with me; this is the best I could do to make that so.  At the end I’ve added links to a lot of the reviews which have photographs of the performance and to a series of videos that show the dancers in rehearsal as well as  conversations among the choreographers, dancers, and dramaturg.

Study Woolf: Review of Woolf Works, Royal Opera House, May 13, 2015.

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In London? See Woolf Works ballet. If not, share your Woolf experience

Posted in events, tagged , on Wednesday 15 April 2015| 3 Comments »

Woolf Works, a ballet based on the life and writings of Virginia Woolf, will be presented by the Royal Ballet May 11-26 at the Royal Opera House in London, and organizers are asking readers of Woolf to share their personal experiences of Woolf by posting comments on the website.

Beresford portrait of Virginia Woolf

Beresford portrait of Virginia Woolf

The full-length eight-performance production interweaves themes from Mrs. Dalloway, Orlando and The Waves, along with Woolf’s letters, essays and diaries.

“Woolf Works expresses the heart of an artistic life driven to discover a freer, uniquely modern realism, and brings to life Woolf’s world of ‘granite and rainbow’ where human beings are at once both physical body and uncontained essence,” according to the Royal Opera House website.

The coreography is by Royal Ballet Resident Choreographer Wayne McGregor. The score is by Max Richter.

Tickets are available from the Royal Opera House.

In preparation for the ballet and in honor of her birthday this year, organizers are collecting comments from readers of Woolf regarding their personal experiences. The questions include: How did you discover her? What was the first thing you read? What struck you about it? What did (and does) her work mean to you? A selection of comments will be included in the show’s program book.

‘the ‘book itself’ is not form which you see, but emotion which you feel’ – Virginia Woolf, On Re-reading Novels

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