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Open in the appOceans ---------- Choreography by Damien Jalet & Kyle Abraham Breakwater created at the Opéra de Paris in 2020 First time at GTG River Without Banks world premiere of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Duration 1h40 including intermission Recommended from age… Oceans ---------- Choreography by Damien Jalet & Kyle Abraham Breakwater created at the Opéra de Paris in 2020 First time at GTG River Without Banks world premiere of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Duration 1h40 including intermission Recommended from age 10 Cast Breakwater Choreography Damien Jalet Associate choreographer Aimilios Arapoglou Set design, costumes JR Lighting Fabiana Piccioli associated with Elena Gui for the revival Music Koki Nakano Additional music Olafur Arnalds and Nils Frahm River Without Banks Choreography Kyle Abraham Set design and lighting Dan Scully Costumes Reid & Harriet Design Music Leo Svirsky Choreographic assistants Stephanie Terasaki and Donovan Reed Pianists Leo Svirsky, Reinier van Houdt and Réginald Le Reun Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève Work A line of kneeling bodies curves and undulates to the rhythm of throbbing pulses. From their torsos and limbs emerges a succession of grey waves that rise, break and tirelessly strike an imaginary dike. The arpeggios of a virtuoso piano soon swell their flows into autonomous whirlpools, before calm succeeds the storm (Breakwater). — From two pianos flows a deep and shimmering sonorous river, whose waves seem to propagate to the surrounding space which quivers and wrinkles in a play of watercolour hues. Caught in this infinite current, couples form and dissolve, their relationships shift and transform, leading to delicate separations or renewed unions (River Without Banks). The Oceans diptych brings together two choreographic pieces inspired by the energy and metamorphoses of water in motion. Created in 2020 at the Opéra de Paris, Damien Jalet's hypnotic Breakwater, designed in collaboration with artist JR, enters the repertoire of the Ballet du Grand Théâtre. Set to music by Koki Nakano, its nine performers bring to life a human wave, symbol of…