Program
Innovators & Icons
APR 22, 23, 25 eve, 26, 28, MAY 8
Performance Dates
AN ECLECTIC TRIO SPANNING A VAST RANGE OF STYLES
Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky’s inventive Voices is led by five female dancers performing intricate solos to an experimental Peter Ablinger score featuring recordings of six notable women speaking in various languages, overlaid with a live solo piano. Also an ingenious pairing of music and choreography, Jerome Robbins’ In Memory of… casts a haunting spell that reflects the emotional nuances of a violin concerto by modernist composer Alban Berg. The program concludes with Diamonds, one of Balanchine’s supremely beautiful displays of classical dance, a tribute to late 19th- and early 20th-century ballet’s regality as exemplified by the work of the master choreographer Marius Petipa.
Ballets on this Program
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Voices
Set to a score of recorded speeches by notable women overlaid with accompanying solo piano, Ratmansky’s sixth creation for New York City Ballet features character-rich and technically demanding solos for five women, joined by five men who perform interstitial dances before the entire cast unites in a final ensemble movement.
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In Memory of...
Intertwining Berg’s poignant melodies with heart-stirring choreography, In Memory of... is a serene and elegiac work recalling innocence and loss.
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Diamonds
With its symphonic Tschaikovsky score, Diamonds venerates the regality of Balanchine's native Russia for an elegant and romantic experience.
