Ballet: Love Songs - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Ballet: Love Songs
Other Dances
Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Choreography
Jerome Robbins
Costumes
Santo Loquasto
Light
Jennifer Tipton
Rehearsal
Isabelle Guérin
Piano
Schaghajegh Nosrati
Concerto
Composer
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Choreography
Lucinda Childs
Costumes
Anne Masset
Light
Dominique Drillot
Rehearsal
Ty Boomershine
Love Songs Waltz
Composer
Johannes Brahms
Choreography
George Balanchine
Stage
Rolf Langenfass
Costumes
Karinska
Rehearsal
Maria Calegari
Bart Cook
Soprano
Ileana Tonca
Old
Noa Beinart
Tenor
Hiroshi Amako
Bass
Ilja Kazakov
Piano
Stephen Hopkins
Cecile Restier
Contents
'I'll come for whatever you want me for. I can dance, I can choreograph.” With these words Jerome Robbins addressed the director of the New York City Ballet in 1948. And he – George Balanchine, who knew Robbins' work on Broadway and his talent very well – answered simply: “Come along!” This sealed an American success story: From then on, Robbins was at Mr. B.'s side not only as a ballet master , but also played a decisive role as a choreographer in the development of the New York City Ballet into one of the most important dance companies.
In 1976 he created »Other Dances« for Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov – a Chopin ballet that beautifully shows what the star Russian dancer once said about the choreographer: »Robbins is the most romantic of all modern ones.« In a sublime yet natural way in this pas de deux the romance of the music merged with the grace of classical ballet technique.
What happens to our perception of a movement when it is repeated continuously but in different situations? Lucinda Childs deals with this question and creates dance architectures of pure form. With »Concerto«, premiered in 1993 by the Lucinda Childs Dance Company in Lisbon, a work by the important American can now be experienced for the first time with the Vienna State Ballet. In the elementary combination of geometric patterns, repetitive movements and rhythms, »Concerto« in congenial partnership with Henryk M. Górecki's Concerto for harpsichord and strings unfolds a hypnotic effect - a score like a »prank«, according to the Polish composer.
Balanchine's »Love Songs Waltz«, on the other hand, takes us into the world of Viennese balls. The work, which premiered in 1960 with the New York City Ballet, was part of the permanent repertoire of the Vienna State Ballet between 1977 and 1991, to which it is now returning in a new production. As if at an exuberant Schubertiade, four dancing couples, singers and pianists meet on the stage, which is transformed into a ballroom with Johannes Brahms' "Love Song Waltz" op. 52 and "New Love Songs" op. 65. First in elegant and playful evening gowns, then in ballet dresses and pointe shoes, Balanchine creates intimate portraits of passion: »In the first act, it is the real people who dance. In the second act, it's their souls," says the choreographer.
Jerome Robbins' Other Dances takes place with permission © The Robbins Rights Trust George Balanchine's »Love Songs Waltz« takes place with permission © The George Balanchine Trust.
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Composer
Frédéric Chopin
Choreography
Jerome Robbins
Costumes
Santo Loquasto
Light
Jennifer Tipton
Rehearsal
Isabelle Guérin
Piano
Schaghajegh Nosrati
Concerto
Composer
Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Choreography
Lucinda Childs
Costumes
Anne Masset
Light
Dominique Drillot
Rehearsal
Ty Boomershine
Love Songs Waltz
Composer
Johannes Brahms
Choreography
George Balanchine
Stage
Rolf Langenfass
Costumes
Karinska
Rehearsal
Maria Calegari
Bart Cook
Soprano
Ileana Tonca
Old
Noa Beinart
Tenor
Hiroshi Amako
Bass
Ilja Kazakov
Piano
Stephen Hopkins
Cecile Restier
Contents
'I'll come for whatever you want me for. I can dance, I can choreograph.” With these words Jerome Robbins addressed the director of the New York City Ballet in 1948. And he – George Balanchine, who knew Robbins' work on Broadway and his talent very well – answered simply: “Come along!” This sealed an American success story: From then on, Robbins was at Mr. B.'s side not only as a ballet master , but also played a decisive role as a choreographer in the development of the New York City Ballet into one of the most important dance companies.
In 1976 he created »Other Dances« for Natalia Makarova and Mikhail Baryshnikov – a Chopin ballet that beautifully shows what the star Russian dancer once said about the choreographer: »Robbins is the most romantic of all modern ones.« In a sublime yet natural way in this pas de deux the romance of the music merged with the grace of classical ballet technique.
What happens to our perception of a movement when it is repeated continuously but in different situations? Lucinda Childs deals with this question and creates dance architectures of pure form. With »Concerto«, premiered in 1993 by the Lucinda Childs Dance Company in Lisbon, a work by the important American can now be experienced for the first time with the Vienna State Ballet. In the elementary combination of geometric patterns, repetitive movements and rhythms, »Concerto« in congenial partnership with Henryk M. Górecki's Concerto for harpsichord and strings unfolds a hypnotic effect - a score like a »prank«, according to the Polish composer.
Balanchine's »Love Songs Waltz«, on the other hand, takes us into the world of Viennese balls. The work, which premiered in 1960 with the New York City Ballet, was part of the permanent repertoire of the Vienna State Ballet between 1977 and 1991, to which it is now returning in a new production. As if at an exuberant Schubertiade, four dancing couples, singers and pianists meet on the stage, which is transformed into a ballroom with Johannes Brahms' "Love Song Waltz" op. 52 and "New Love Songs" op. 65. First in elegant and playful evening gowns, then in ballet dresses and pointe shoes, Balanchine creates intimate portraits of passion: »In the first act, it is the real people who dance. In the second act, it's their souls," says the choreographer.
Jerome Robbins' Other Dances takes place with permission © The Robbins Rights Trust George Balanchine's »Love Songs Waltz« takes place with permission © The George Balanchine Trust.
Subject to change.
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