Agon
Music
Igor Stravinsky
Choreography
George Balanchine
Anatomy of a Dance
Maria Kowroski on Balanchine’s AGON
Maria Kowroski discusses how this Balanchine classic is, at its root, the story of a relationship. Agon translates as “contest” in Greek, and the ballet’s central pas de deux is a back-and-forth conversation between a couple, manifested in physical form.