Program
Contemporary Choreography I
MAY 14, 18 eve, 22, 25 mat
CONTEMPORARY SELECTIONS SATURATED IN COLOR
A classic Jerome Robbins ballet pointing the way toward the future combines with three works from contemporary choreographers. Glass Pieces is Robbins’ electrifying 1983 ballet to music by the iconic contemporary composer Philip Glass. Alexei Ratmansky employed a classic 19th-century piano composition from Mussorgsky to create a ballet that translates the music into the choreographer’s distinctive 21st-century idioms. Gianna Reisen’s Play Time, which debuted at the 2022 Fall Fashion Gala, is set to a score by Grammy-winning singer and songwriter Solange Knowles. And Red Angels, from the late choreographer Ulysses Dove, has remained a staple in the Company repertory since its debut in 1994.
Ballets on this Program
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Pictures at an Exhibition
Like the ever-changing Wassily Kandinsky watercolors that set the stage, Pictures at an Exhibition’s ten dancers move in varying combinations to display a plethora of emotion, from raw and wild to solemn and soulful.
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Play Time
Remarking on her first piece for NYCB in 2017, The New York Times praised Gianna Reisen as an artist who “repeatedly shows a marvelously arresting theatrical instinct.” Just five years later, she returns to create another new work—her third for NYCB—premiering at the 2022 Fall Fashion Gala.
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Red Angels
A dynamically charged, abstract work, Red Angels highlights the power and athleticism of its four dancers through bold choreography, intense lighting, and a riveting score for electric violin.
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Glass Pieces
Expansive in scope and streamlined in style, Glass Pieces captures the pulsating heartbeat of metropolitan life with its charged, urban choreography, concluding in a finale that propels the corps de ballet across the stage at an electrifying pace.
