A new Wuthering Heights ballet for 2009

More Brontë projects for 2009. Wuthering Heights will be adapted again as a new ballet by Cathy Marston which will be premiered next March, 28 2009 at the Stadtheater in Bern, Switzerland. The choreographer is interviewed by The Telegraph & Argus:

Cathy Marston is an international choreographer. But when she was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne her parents so loved Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering Heights that they named their daughter after Heathcliff’s star-crossed lover.
Like millions of others, Cathy has been to Haworth; she has stood at the ruins of Top Withens and gazed across the unfolding moorline of the hills, trying to feel what Emily Bronte felt all those years ago.
This week Cathy was starting work on choreographing a new ballet version of Wuthering Heights for Switzerland’s Bern Ballet where she has been director for nearly a year. After graduating from the Royal Ballet School, which she joined in 1992, she joined the Zurich Ballet and spent six years in Switzerland.
“The problem in Bern is I am fighting snobby critics who don’t like narrative stories, but I have always wanted to do Wuthering Heights,” she said.
“What’s really great about the idea of putting it on in Bern is that the people there have no preconceived ideas about what it should be, whereas in Yorkshire people are used to it.
“I am going to sit down with my scenario writer [Ed Kemp]. The story will come down to this essentially earthy relationship, which continues to exist after death. I feel it is a love story that transcends any time,” she said. (...)
Cathy’s composer for Wuthering Heights will be Dave Maric, who worked with her on her production of Ibsen’s Ghosts and her latest piece of work for Leeds-based Northern Ballet Theatre, A Tale Of Two Cities. (Jim Greenhalf)

The production will be performed at the Linbury Theatre, at the Royal Opera House, in a later date.

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