Othelo

1990

TECHNICAL DATA

Choreography
Peter Darrel


Synopsis
Othello was a restaging by Peter Darrell, staged with fundamental support from the British Council in São Paulo, created on November 17, 1971, originally commissioned by Galina Samsova, Artistic Director, New London Ballet. Trieste; September 16, 1976, The Scottish Ballet; June 19, 1978, Irish National Ballet; 1978 Malmö Ballet; 1982 Athens; October 7, 1985, London City Ballet; 1990 Cisne Negro Dance Company, Brazil; March 23, 1993, NAPAC, Durban; January 29, 2010 Sarasota Ballet

Year of debut
1990

Peter Darrel Cisne Negro Cia de Dança

Peter Darrell

Among the young lions of new choreography who grew up in the post-war British world, it was Peter Darrell who emerged as the supreme master of narrative dance in classical ballet.

Few have surpassed his ability to tell stories through movement, although the stories he chose to tell were not the usual ones. Throughout his career, he portrayed the wavering and fleeting workings of people's inner selves, their unspoken thoughts and internal motivations in a way that only physical movement can achieve, in ballets that were sometimes as shocking as they were revealing.

Darrell's work changed the way people viewed ballet, permanently housing within it dimensions of psychological truth and contemporary realism that offered dance an appeal far beyond its traditional audience. From his groundbreaking first ensemble, the Western Theatre Ballet, to the company he founded that became Scotland's national ballet – The Scottish Ballet – Peter Darrell was a powerful force and a creator of uncommon brilliance.