Program
Spring Gala Performance
MAY 5 at 7 PM
Performance Dates
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Stravinsky Festival
The centerpiece of the 2022 Stravinsky Festival is a gala performance, highlighted by a world premiere from former Corps de Ballet Member Silas Farley in tribute to George Balanchine and Igor Stravinsky’s landmark works. The score for the premiere will be created by composer and writer David K. Israel and based on a 1946 musical exchange between Balanchine and Stravinsky, in which the choreographer wrote an acrostic poem in Russian as a gift for Stravinsky’s 65th birthday and set it to a simple melody that the composer then harmonized as a gesture of gratitude. This celebratory program will open with Jerome Robbins’ Circus Polka, a whimsical escapade for a carousel of 48 students from the School of American Ballet, joined by Balanchine’s Scherzo à la Russe, a sprightly dance for a female ensemble, and his streamlined masterpiece Stravinsky Violin Concerto.
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Ballets on this Program
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Circus Polka
Showcasing the tiniest of dancers, Circus Polka is a sprightly piece featuring a carousel of students from the School of American Ballet as they twinkle in lines and circles at the beck and call of a dapper ringmaster.
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Scherzo à la Russe
This brief, all-female ballet is a light-hearted and buoyant work that evokes the movements of Russian folk dances.
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Architects of Time
Former NYCB Corps de Ballet Member, beloved City Ballet the Podcast host, and current dean of dance at The Colburn School in Los Angeles, Silas Farley rejoins his colleagues to create a world premiere for the Company’s 2022 Stravinsky Festival, featuring a score by David K. Israel based on a series of compositional exchanges between Stravinsky and Balanchine.
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Stravinsky Violin Concerto
The outer sections of Stravinsky Violin Concerto are carefully-woven masterpieces of symmetry that peel away to reveal two of Balanchine’s most ingenious and unique pas de deux.
