Copland Dance Episodes

REIMAGINING COPLAND’S MUSIC IN A MODERN-DAY CONTEXT FOR A CONTEMPORARY DOSE OF AMERICANA

For his first full-evening work, returning after its January 2023 premiere, Resident Choreographer Justin Peck pays tribute to one of America’s foremost composers, Aaron Copland, in a collaboration with the painter and sculptor Jeffrey Gibson. Building on Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes, his first piece set to a Copland composition, Peck will draw exclusively on Copland’s music – not the scenarios or steps of the famous prior ballets set to the composer’s music – for inspiration.