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The Singapore Dance Theatre is Singapore's national dance company, founded in 1988 by the late Anthony Then and Goh Soo Khim. It made its debut in June 1988 at the Singapore Festival of The Arts and received its first arts patronage by the then-Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Ong Teng Cheong. The Artistic Director of the company is (Janek Schergen ). Its humble beginnings started with a group of seven ballet dancers in a modest dance studio on the second storey of a creaky colonial bungalow on Killiney Road. This studio space was shared by the Singapore Ballet Academy and the SDT's dancers could only train in between the Academy's rehearsal schedules on normal days. The building's condition was poor and, often, dancers had to be careful with their dance movements lest the floorboards gave way. On rainy days, the studio would experience leaking roofs and had to put buckets at the corner of the studio, to collect rainwater. in 1991 SDT moved to the Fort Canning Centre in Fort Canning Park. As of 2013, SDT moved to purpose built headquarters on Victoria Street. The new premises has four large studios and better facilities for the dances and staff. On 12 July 2013 the new SDT headquarters was officially opened with the Silver Legacy Gala by presided over by President Dr. Tony Tan. SDT now consists of 37 dancers, predominantly from the Asia-Pacific region. It receives its funding from both public and private sources such as the National Arts Council, and corporate and private donations. It has six seasons in a year, including performances at the Esplanade theatre and the Fort Canning Green, where its hugely popular Ballet Under The Stars (BUTS) series of outdoor performances are staged. BUTS has, to date, attracted over 180,000 spectators from all walks of life and have become dance aficionados. ==Repertoire== The company’s repertoire ranges from classical to contemporary ballet, from renowned choreographers like Choo-San Goh, George Balanchine, Jean Paul Comelin, Nacho Duato, Jiri Kylian, Val Caniparoli, Edwaard Liang, Nils Christe, Graham Lustig, Ma Cong, Toru Shimazaki, Natalie Weir, Stanton Welch, Edmund Stripe and Marie-Claude Pietragalla. The company also takes on the works by contemporary choreographers Kuik Swee Boon, David Dawson, Jorma Elo, Xing Liang and Adrian Burnett. They also have done several full length ballets in their history with The Nutcracker, Coppelia, Cinderella, Giselle, Madame Butterfly, La Sylphide, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Don Quixote and the contemporary work Reminiscing the Moon, choreographed by Boi Sakti, commissioned for the opening of the Esplanade in 2002. In 2010 the company performed Giselle in Victoria Theatre and presented a new staging of Sleeping Beauty in December at the Esplanade. SDT adds five or six new works in each season coming from choreographers such as Val Caniparoli, Edwaard Liang, Nils Christe, Nils Christe plus the children's ballet Peter and Blue's series created especially for young audiences by the company's Artistic Director, Janek Schergen. SDT presented company premieres of George Balanchine's ballets Concerto Barocco, Serenade, Allegro Brillante, Divertimento #15 and Theme and Variations between 2009-2013. The 2011 season's began with Goh Choo San's Romeo and Juliet performed at The Esplanade in March. June's Masterpiece in Motion programme was Stanon Welch's Maninyas, Nils Christe's Fearful Symmetries and a new work made for SDT by Edwaard Laing titled The Winds of Zephyrus. In July Ballet Under the Stars presented a Tchaikovsky Festival with Balanchine's Allegro Brillante, Serenade and Swan Lake Act II. Passages Choreographic Workshop performances were presented at The National Museum at the end of October 2011. The season ended with a successful new staging of The Nutcracker. SDT's 2012 season was framed with performances of Swan Lake in March and Sleeping Beauty in December at the Esplanade Theatre. There were several new additions to the repertoire-ZIN!/Nils Christe, Jabula/Natalie Weir, Age of Innocence/Edwaard Laing, Divertimento #15/ George Balanchine and news works from Val Caniparoli (Chant), Nils Christe (Organ Concerto) and Toru Shimizaki (Absence of Story). The annual presentations of Masterpiece in Motion, Ballet Under the Stars and Passages Choreographic Workshop continue. 2013 marked the 25th anniversary of the company's foundation. The company moved to new headquarters in February 2013 at Bugis+ on the top floor of the building. The new home includes four studios, staff, meeting and production room. The performance season began in March, at The Esplanade Theatre, with Coppelia, featuring largely new sets and an expanded staging to present the full company. During the year new works will be added from Christina Chan, Natalie Weir and Kinsun Chan. The company premiere of Balanchine's Theme and Variations is scheduled for August. 2013 will also feature performances of Giselle and The Nutcracker to mark their prominence in the company's history and repertoire. A gala performance to mark the 25th year took place on 31 May & 1 June 2013 at the Esplanade Theatre. It featured Edwaard Laiang's world premiere of Opus 25 as the centerpiece, created for 32 dancers in the company, to music of Michael Torke. To celebrate 25 years of SDT the company published Momentum, an anniversary book, showing the history of the organization. It was written by Janek Schergen and produced by Landmark Books. In 2015 SDT's repertoire included Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake plus ten works from the company's established repertoire and new works from Kinsun Chan, Gigi Gianti, Max Chen and Francois Klaus, plus the company premiere of Bournonville Divertissements. The company has been on tour to Mayasia annually as well as other cites in the Asia Pacific region. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Singapore Dance Theatre」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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