Guest company
Teatro Aurelia
The Teatro Aurelia ballet: two centuries of the Italian school, a corps de ballet of eighty dancers, and a repertoire that runs from Giselle to today's new works.
Companies & productions
Guest company · Saint Petersburg
Karelin Ballet
A company built around a single choreographer, who calls his work 'psychological ballet' and adapts great literature for the dancing body.
Scènova has represented the Karelin Ballet for its Western European tours since 2014.
Viktor Karelin founded his company in 1977 on an idea that was simple and, for a long time, unfashionable: a ballet theatre written by a single author, the way one writes a book. The first pieces displeased as much as they intrigued, and the argument they opened has never closed.
From the 1980s the repertoire turned to literature – the great novels, less for their plots than for what they do to their characters. There Karelin found his material: passion, guilt, disintegration.
A vocabulary of its own
The style is instantly recognisable: broken lines, lifts that look like arrested falls, ensembles that advance as a single mass. Nothing is decorative, and technique is never shown for its own sake.
The company today numbers fifty-four dancers and a school founded by the choreographer. Its pieces tour Asia, North America and Europe, and return regularly to France.
On stage
Other companies
Guest company
Opéra Palatina, Rome
The Opéra Palatina ballet: a nineteenth-century Roman house, a proscenium stage in the Italian manner, and evenings that play as well under the open sky as in the auditorium.
A Scènova production
Carmina Burana
Our first complete production: choreography, libretto, sets and costumes all created in-house around Carl Orff's cantata.