'Woolf Works,' in performances at the Metropolitan Opera House through June 29, features choreography by Wayne McGregor, a score by Max Richter and two performances from Olivier Award-winning ballerina Alessandra Ferri.
“It's just a very powerful, moving work,” says Ferri of the ballet, now in performances at the Metropolitan Opera HouseVirginia Woolf’s beloved novels are coming to life in a ballet, now making its New York premiere with the American Ballet Theatre ., in performances at the Metropolitan Opera House through June 29, is more than a tribute to the beloved English writer.
It’s a fitting homecoming, as the dual role of Clarissa and Woolf was created for her by McGregor in 2015, and is one that the dancer finds particularly important at this point in her career. “With Wayne, you just create with no boundaries, no sense of time or place, within the ballet,” Ferri says. “I didn't know if what we were doing was the beginning of the ballet, the end of the ballet. I didn't know. We would just create things, movement, situations and then they all fell in the right place. Somehow the work creates itself.”Portraying a real person, Ferri agrees, was both "a great honor" and a challenge.
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