Performance Dates
NYCB STAPLES FROM BALANCHINE, ROBBINS, AND MARTINS BOOKEND A REVIVAL OF AN EVANS PAS DE DEUX
This nicely varied program features works from four choreographers performed to music of diverse styles and periods. The Concert, Jerome Robbins’s impishly funny sendup of the supposedly staid behavior of classical concertgoers, finds unexpected humor in its score of selected Chopin piano works. The program also includes Balanchine’s Ballo della Regina, performed to Verdi ballet music, which features bravura choreography that challenges even the most technically assured dancers; Peter Martins’ endlessly dynamic Hallelujah Junction, danced to a score for two pianos by the esteemed contemporary composer John Adams; and In a Landscape, a pas de deux to music by the modernist composer John Cage created by Albert Evans, a beloved longtime principal dancer with the Company who passed away in 2015.
Ballets on this Program
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Ballo della Regina
The jaw-dropping technical feats of Ballo della Regina’s choreography were originally devised to challenge the lead ballerina, who must exhibit carefree joyousness while performing steps that push the limits of physical possibility.
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In a Landscape
In his third and final work for NYCB, former Principal Dancer and Ballet Master Albert Evans presented a duet “understated but brimming with quiet passion and intensity” (The New York Times), created as a piece d’occasion for the Company’s 2005 Opening Night Gala.
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Hallelujah Junction
Martins’ Hallelujah Junction is a living locomotive of propulsive vitality, set to a pulsing John Adams score played by two onstage pianists.
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The Concert (or, The Perils of Everybody)
A one-of-a-kind comedic ballet, The Concert portrays a cast of quirky characters at a piano recital and their laugh-out-loud antics.
