Program
All Balanchine II
OCT 5, 12, 13, 15 mat & eve
Performance Dates
TWO MONUMENTAL WORKS WITH DIVERGENT STYLES: FROM THE AVANT-GARDE TO SWEEPING REFINEMENT
Ballets in two varied styles illuminate the breadth and diversity of Balanchine’s work. Episodes is among his greatest Black & White leotard ballets, set to the spiky music of Webern and originally created as part of a collaboration with the modern dance choreographer Martha Graham, but now performed as a pure Balanchine work. The sumptuous Vienna Waltzes is a feast for the eye and ear, and a perennial favorite since its premiere. Its five sections each feature a principal couple in elegant settings that recall the Austrian capital and its environs at the height of the city’s 19th-century prime.
Ballets on this Program
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Episodes
A four part avant-garde work, Episodes grew out of Balanchine’s enthusiasm for Anton von Webern’s orchestral music, which Balanchine once wrote “fills the air like molecules.”
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Vienna Waltzes
A work of monumental scale with a magnificent finale, the five-part Vienna Waltzes is set in moonlit Austrian forests and the regal ballrooms of Vienna.
