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This Bitter Earth

Music
Max Richter and Clyde Otis
Choreography
Christopher Wheeldon

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This breathtaking and poetic dance for a couple explores the haunting, tenuous melodies set to a remix of Dinah Washington’s soulful rendition of “This Bitter Earth” and Max Richter’s “On the Nature of Daylight.”

This Bitter Earth is a pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon’s Five Movements, Three Repeats. The full work was originally created for Fang-Yi Sheu & Artists, a group led by former Martha Graham Dance Company star Fang-Yi Sheu that included NYCB dancers Wendy Whelan, Tyler Angle, and Craig Hall. Set to a remix of Dinah Washington’s performance of Clyde Otis’ This Bitter Earth, and Max Richter’s On the Nature of Daylight, the ballet had its Company premiere at NYCB’s 2012 Fall Gala.

8 minutes

CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON’S THIS BITTER EARTH

Principal Dancers Sara Mearns & Adrian Danchig-Waring are poetry in motion over the haunting vocals of Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth, amplified by the strings of Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight.

The Bitter Earth

Unity Phelan skims the stage's surface supported by fellow Principal Dancer Andrew Veyette in Christopher Wheeldon's This Bitter Earth.

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