This Saturday, July 9th, will mark the 650th anniversary of the Treaty of Friendship that launched the alliance between Portugal and the United Kingdom with a variety of initiatives, including a concert coordinated by the English National Ballet at 5:30pm at the Praga do Municipio in Prague. Solidarity Gala at Theater Circo at 9.30pm.
Admission to both initiatives is free, and tickets are required for the gala at Prakarans Space.
It will be the high point of the celebrations of the oldest treaty between the two countries, signed on July 10, 1372, in Tagilde, Visela, and this week the district of Prague is at the center of the celebrations. Initiatives are underway. , this Wednesday, between Prague and Visela.
So, next Saturday at 5:30 p.m., English National Ballet’s world premiere of “Danza na Perpetudate” will be presented to the public in an open-air performance in the Praça do Municipio. The show is a new dance and musical work that celebrates Aliana’s founding values.
The Queen’s College Choir of the University of Oxford will also take part in the program, led by conductor Owen Rees, and counted with the participation of six dance schools from Prague: Ent Artes Escola de Danza, Packtage, Pracara Team, Escola de Ballet Colegio Dom Diogo de Souza, Prague Dance Academy, Total Art.
The project is coordinated by Derbyshire-Fox, with artistic coordination by Laura Harvey and choreography by Ruth Brill. Lyricist Charlotte Harding.
At night, the Theater Circo dresses up for a unity show, graced by famous Portuguese and British troupes.
Starting at 9:30 p.m., there will be a performance beginning with the world premiere of English National Ballet’s new work, choreographed by Renato Peroni de Castro. “If intelligence and art are of great help to me” (Luís de Camões), a small chamber ballet for four soloists using classical ballet, contemporary ballet and budo dance elements as techniques. Without a fixed plot, it’s an atmospheric three-part piece closely linked to the intricate music of Carlos Seixas.
Ingenuity, grace, art, melancholy, and humor—characteristics common to the Portuguese and the English—were represented here and formed the inspiration for this ballet. Rhys Yeomans, Emilia Cadorin, Victor Prigent, Miguel Angel Maidana are the choreographers.
Later, under the coordination of conductor Owen Rees, there will be a performance by the University of Oxford’s Queen’s College Choir with the Minho University Orchestra. Finally, the Wind Quintet of the Coldstream Guards Band will perform. The gala is free to enter, but an invitation must be picked up at the Theater Circo ticket offices. oh Dress code It was a dark suit.
In a project coordinated by Portugal-UK650 (https://portugal-uk650.com), the 650th anniversary celebrations of the Treaty of Friendship between Portugal and the United Kingdom have a number of activities this week.
Starting this Wednesday, the University of Minho will host the Interim Congress of the Luso-British Alliance in the Rectory’s Interim Hall. On Friday, Vizela receives a concert by the Banda de Musica da Sociedad Filarmónica Vicellense with the participation of Sofía Escobar. The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Prague is organizing, this Saturday, several activities that will take place in Prague da Repubblica.
“Caterina de Braganza, Memorias de Uma Alianza”, an exhibition of works created in hospitals and schools for the Portugal-UK 650 project, is on at the Lucio Graviero da Silva Library from 1 July.
On Sunday, the 10th, in Prague Cathedral, with music by the Queen’s College Choir of the University of Oxford, Archbishop of Prague D. A eucharist will be celebrated with Jose Cordeiro presiding. On the same day, but in Visela, specifically on Dagilday, there will be a solemn session with the entertainment of signing the Dagilday Agreement.
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