Program
Contemporary Choreography II
FEB 6 mat & eve, 9, 17, 25, 27 mat
Performance Dates
FOUR COMPELLING WORKS BRINGS MODERN PERSPECTIVE TO A CLASSICAL ART FORM
Four distinct expressions from four contemporary choreographers indicate ballet’s direction for the 21st century. Resident Choreographer Justin Peck responds whimsically to NYCB's neoclassicism with his spirited 2017 take on Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite, while Christopher Wheeldon turns to the oeuvre of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt for his pensive 2003 pas de deux Liturgy. After its world premiere during the Fall Fashion Gala, the first NYCB commission from the highly sought-after, Brooklyn-based choreographer Jennifer Archibald takes the stage again, followed by Jamar Roberts’ Foreseeable Future, a vision of ecological change brought to entrancing life by Iris van Herpen’s otherworldly costumes and music from Venezuelan multidisciplinary performance artist and record producer Arca.
Ballets on this Program
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Pulcinella Variations
Exploring NYCB’s neoclassical roots in his choreography, Peck’s Pulcinella Variations features nine dancers in a series of divertissements, dressed by Japanese fashion designer Tsumori Chisato in whimsical commedia dell’arte-inspired costumes.
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Liturgy
This contemplative pas de deux has a hushed, mystical quality as two dancers separate and return to one another with ever increasing intensity before disappearing into the darkness together.
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New Archibald
One of the dance world’s busiest choreographers” (Dance Magazine), Jennifer Archibald brings her contemporary style to the NYCB stage in her debut work for the company.
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Foreseeable Future
Expressing a contradiction between the beauty of the natural world and rapid technological evolution, Jamar Roberts’ Foreseeable Future draws upon sculptural costume designs that feature hypnotic wings to underpin organic fluid movements and angular iridescent attire garbing a futuristic phalanx that weaves through extreme tilts and spirals.
