Your insight into (Re)Current, performed by Principals of The Royal Ballet, Matthew Ball & Mayara Magri, at BN007: Pillars & Pioneers this April 1st at Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square.
(Re)Current, choreographed by Principal of The Royal Ballet, Matthew Ball, and performed alongside fellow Principal, Mayara Magri, is a duet full of daring lifts and expansive movements that embodies life’s cyclical patterns.
Manifesting in a couple that meet each other at various stages of life, the piece traces the encounters of these two drifting souls through the use of shapes and flowing movements. Delving into what pulls them together, and eventually apart, despite their urge to resist the flow of time, the two seem inextricably linked through recurring patterns of existence.
An idea echoed in the music, a piece by Jean Sibelius entitled ‘Laetare Anima Mea’, translating to ‘My Soul Rejoices’, the piece reflects on these rejoicing moments that transcend the recurrent pattern of existence, and how, albeit short-lived, they are worth swimming against the tide for, even if the crescendo of the wave must break and go under.
What has resulted is a work that is small in scale, but epic in scope.
“All of the waves and waters hastened, suffering towards goals, many goals, to the waterfall, to the sea, to the current, to the ocean and all goals were reached and each one was succeeded by another. The water turned into vapour and rose, became rain and came down again, became spring, brook and river, changed anew, flowed anew.” - Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
Working together as a real-life couple, the work was not the first that Matthew had choreographed on Mayara, but as it started to mirror their own romantic connection, they felt it become one of their signature pieces that has grown with them each time it is revived. Speaking about some of the potential demands of working with your partner, given a natural candidness, Matthew revealed how their sensitivity, vulnerability, and honesty, has allowed them both to reach new heights, whilst also tuning his own choreographic vocabulary.
To hear more from the artists themselves, you can watch Matthew & Mayara rehearse Re(Current) in the Clore Studio at The Royal Opera House in our latest Behind the Scenes:
Book Now to witness Matthew & Mayara, in (Re)Current, alongside the Star Studded cast of Ballet Nights 007: Pillars & Pioneers this April 1st at Cadogan Hall, Sloane Square.
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