Ballet: Classics by Balanchine / Peck / Tharp - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Multi-part ballet evening

With “Classics” the Semperoper Ballet presents a program that combines three dance creations that have become prime examples of their respective creators:

The opening is “Serenade” (1935) – George Balanchine’s first creation on US soil: When the dancers in floor-length light blue tulle dresses in strict geometry start dancing to Tchaikovsky’s “Serenade for Strings”, the choreography breathes the atmosphere of the “white nudes”. « of classical story ballets and opens the space to abstract neoclassical ballet and new forms of expression. This is followed by “Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes” by the American choreographer Justin Peck, who will be a guest at the Semperoper with his work from 2015. With this work, Peck takes up the famous Americana theme of the US composer Aaron Copland (1900 - 1990), whose cowboy ballet "Rodeo" (1942) is one of his best-known works. Based on this score, Peck created a humorous, lively dance piece for 16 dancers. The American choreographer Twyla Tharp brings another premiere to the stage in Dresden by presenting her work “In The Upper Room” (1986), which is now a repertoire favorite of numerous ballet companies worldwide. For the commissioned composition by Philip Glass, the company once again demonstrates their enormous body control by performing not only ballet but also a variety of physical techniques such as boxing, yoga and tap dancing, rounding off the ballet evening in this varied way.


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