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Antique Epigraphs

Music
Claude Debussy
Choreography
Jerome Robbins

An all-female cast performs this dramatic and introspective piece, alluding to the earthy fervor and sculptural forms of Greek antiquity.

The first six sections of Antique Epigraphs are set to an orchestrated version of Six Epigraphes Antiques, music originally written as accompaniment for the prose poetry of Pierre Louÿs' Chanson de Bilitis, supposed translations of newly discovered autobiographical poetry of Sappho. The seventh section of the ballet is danced to Syrinx, a melody for unaccompanied flute.

19 minutes

ANTIQUE EPIGRAPHS

The cast of Jerome Robbins' Antique Epigraphs carving shapes through space and time in the ballet's vivid finale.

ANTIQUE EPIGRAPHS

Ruby Lister imbues their sculptural solo from Jerome Robbins’ Antique Epigraphs with an otherworldly essence.

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