Black Cake
Hans van Manen
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Premiere
20 April 1989, The Hague
Company
Nederlands Dans Theater
Running time
29 minutes
Nr. of dancers
13
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Dutch National Ballet (2012) | Photo: Angela Sterling
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First cast
Sabine Kupferberg, Fiona Lummis, Brigitte Martin, Nancy Euverink, Elke Schepers, Cora Kroese, Nacho Duato, Paul Lightfoot, Lionel Hoche, Jean-Louis Cabané, Shaun Amyot, Rob Dungey, Martin Corri
Music
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - third movement from Symfonie No. 6 (Pathétique) in b minor
Leoš Janáček - Adagio
Igor Stravinsky - Scherzo à la Russe
Pietro Mascagni - Intermezzo from the opera L'amico Fritz
Jules Massenet - Méditation from the opera Thaïs