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Moves

Choreography
Jerome Robbins

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Forgoing elaborate costumes, set design, and even musical accompaniment, Moves enthralls with the unexpected intensity derived from sounds produced by the dancers themselves.

Whether a ballet tells a story or concerns itself with pure dance, its form is determined by the web of music on which it is composed according to the interpretations of the choreographer. The score conditions, supports, predicts, and establishes the dynamics, tempos, and mood, not only for the dancers, but also for the audience. The music acts as a base for the spectators’ responses to the happenings on stage and creates a pervasive atmosphere for reaction. Moves severs that guidance and permits the audience to respond solely to the action of the dance, to become aware of the potential to gesture, to respond directly to the curiosity of movement, and to be released from the associations evoked by scenery, costumes, and music.

27 minutes

Inside the Repertory

Jared Angle on Jerome Robbins' MOVES

Principal dancer Jared Angle talks about how dancing in silence intensifies his connection to the audience and his fellow dancers in Moves, the only ballet in the repertory without music.

Anatomy of a Dance

Adrian Danchig-Waring on Moves

Adrian Danchig-Waring walks us through the electrifying silence of Moves’ “angry pas de deux”.

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