Serpentine Gallery

Ballet:
Sleeping Beauty + Friends
4 April 2007

A ballet conceived and choreographed by Karen Kilimnik after Marius Petipa, August Bourneville and others, in collaboration with choreographer Tom Sapsford and musician Kaffe Matthews.

Kilimnik says ‘I have wanted to do my own ballets for the last 15 years at least! I want to be like Marius Petipa -- the choreographer for the Russian ballet in St.Petersburg in the mid 1800's until 1904 or so.... he did over a 100 ballets!’

The Serpentine Gallery invited Karen Kilimnik to create and design a ballet: sleeping beauty + friends.

Evolving from a love of ballet the performance was a ‘collage’ of set pieces from famous classical ballets such as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake. Dancers performed against a classical backdrop of fantastical effects, specially designed costumes and musical arrangements.

Supported by

The New Players Theatre
The Arches
Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG
7.30pm
Doors close at 7.25pm
Tickets: £10/£8 concession
Serpentine Gallery Exhibition Karen Kilimnik

With kind assistance from
Embassy of United States of America

Karen Kilimnik Exhibition Patrons
Burger Collection Switzerland/Hong Kong
And Exhibition Patrons who wish to remain anonymous

Artist’s Galleries Consortium
303 Gallery, New York/Lisa Spellman
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich/Eva Presenhuber
Galerie Sprűth Magers, Cologne, Munich/Monika Sprűth & Philomene Magers

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