Program
Contemporary Choreography III
MAY 1, 2 eve, 9 eve, 16 mat, 19, 20
Performance Dates
A CONVERGENCE OF 21ST-CENTURY CREATIONS
Ballet thrives on forward momentum, and this program exemplifies how the company has continued to support choreographers moving dance toward new horizons. Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH remains one of the most zestful and intoxicating ballets he has created for NYCB. In the esteemed choreographer Lar Lubovitch’s Each In Their Own Time, two male dancers evoke a mood of romantic rapture in a work set to Brahms piano pieces. Distant Cries, created in 2005 by Edwaard Liang, a former member of the company and currently the artistic director of The Washington Ballet, uses the music of the baroque composer Albinoni for a captivating pas de deux of quiet intensity and emotional ambiguity. And after premiering in 2002 at San Francisco Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum enters the repertory, part of his acclaimed trilogy of streamlined leotard ballets created to the music of György Ligeti, which also includes his Polyphonia and Morphoses.
Ballets on this Program
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Concerto DSCH
With its thrilling Shostakovich score and dramatic texture, Ratmansky’s acclaimed 2008 creation excels with classical ingenuity and contemporary stylishness.
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Each In Their Own Time
Originally choreographed on NYCB artists for New York City Center’s 2021 Fall for Dance Festival, Lar Lubovitch’s Each In Their Own Time flows through an intricate array of jumps, turns, and radiant yet introspective moments between two dancers and an onstage pianist.
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Distant Cries
Edwaard Liang’s Distant Cries explores a Baroque-era adagio with intricately alternating extensions, emotive gestures, and undulating physical maneuvers.
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Continuum
Originally choreographed for San Francisco Ballet in 2002, Christopher Wheeldon’s Continuum moves four couples through shifting moods in a poignant reflection of its György Ligeti piano score.
