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The Pennsylvania Ballet (www.paballet.org), under the artistic direction of Roy Kaiser, will present mixed repertory evenings of their work November 14-18 at City Center (West 55th Street between 6th and 7th Avenue) in New York as part of their 44th Season.
This is the Pennsylvania Ballet's first time back in New York since 1985 when they performed at The Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The company will be dancing six mixed repertory performances comprised of a variety of works per night.
PROGRAM A - Nov 14th at 7:30pm, Nov 16th at 8pm, Nov 17th 8pm, Nov 18th at 2pm
- Serenade by George Balanchine
- Carmina Burana by Matthew Neenan
PROGRAM B- Nov 15th at 7:30pm, Nov 17th at 2pm
- Concerto Barocco by George Balanchine
- As It's Going by Matthew Neenan
- Lambareba by Val Caniparoli
Carmina Burana - Jonathan Stiles and Laura Bowman in Carmina Burana.
Photo: Paul Kolnik
Since its inception in 1963, The Pennsylvania Ballet has been at the forefront of dance in America and is widely regarded as one of the premier ballet companies in the nation. The company was established by Barbara Weisberger, a Balanchine protégé, through a Ford Foundation initiative to develop regional professional dance companies. During its first decade, the company forged the unique identity for which it is still known today: a diverse classical repertoire with a Balanchine backbone performed by versatile dancers whose energy and exuberance are the company's enduring signature. In 1994, the trustees of Pennsylvania Ballet selected its first homegrown Artistic Director, Roy Kaiser. A former company member hired in 1979 by Barbara Weisberger, Mr. Kaiser rose through the ranks from Corps de Ballet to Soloist to Principal by 1990. Following his retirement from the stage in 1992, Mr. Kaiser became Principal Ballet Master and Associate Artistic Director under Christopher d'Amboise until being named to his current position."We are very excited to show New York audiences our spirited repertoire of American tradition and abstract modernism, including a very exciting staging of Carmina Burana by Matthew Neenan,² said artistic director Roy Kaiser. "We want to create dances that not only tell humorous, dramatic, or captivating stories, but also take the art form further and encourage the audience to see dance in a new light."
Serenade - Artists of Pennsylvania Ballet in George Blanchine's Serenade.
Photo: Paul Kolnik.
Program A
Serenade is named after its music - Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C major for String Orchestra - and the ballet tells the story musically and choreographically, without any extraneous narrative. The score includes four danceable movements with different qualities suggestive of different emotions and human situations; subsequently, parts of the ballet do indeed seem to have a story. The four movements are danced in the following order, without interruption: Piece in the Form of a Sonatine: Andante non troppo, Allegro; Waltz; Tema Russo: Andante, Allegro con spirito; Elegy. Serenade was Balanchine's first ballet choreographed in the United States.Carmina Burana is based on 13th century poems and songs, Carl Orff's ³secular cantata.² The poems on which the music is based were composed by traveling minstrels who decide to abandon their sacred beliefs in favor of all the secular pleasures that life has to offer. The ballet, in five parts, is an abstract re-telling of their experiences. This year, Company Member and Choreographer Matthew Neenan was commissioned to recreate and re-envision Carmina Burana. For the original score, Orff selected 25 songs and arranged them into three groups, creating an unforgettable musical experience. For his world premiere, Neenan intends to return to this original version.
Program B
Concerto Barocco is a classic ballet in three movements which first premiered by the American Ballet Caravan (now New York City Ballet) at Teatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro on June 27, 1941, and first presented in the U.S. at the Theatre of Hunter College, New York on May 29, 1941. In 1951, Balanchine eliminated the costumes and instead dressed the dancers in rehearsal clothing. (This was the beginning of what would be customary Balanchine costuming for contemporary works.) Set to Bach's Concerto in D minor for Two Violins, Concerto Barocco has no subject matter of its own, but is designed to illustrate the rhythms, intensities and emotional hues of the score. The two female principal dancers personify the violins in the scoreAs It's Going, a ballet in seven movements, set to the music of Dmitri Shostakovich, takes its title from an Anna Akhmatova poem of nearly the same name. Shostakovich and Akhmatova were both repressed as artists during the Stalinist regime in Russia; their work is now widely recognized and celebrated throughout the world. 2006 was the centennial year of Shostakovich's birth. The piece is choreographed and staged by Matthew Neenan.Val Caniparoli's Lambarena was inspired by a score of the same name that blends traditional African rhythms and melodies with extended passages from Johann Sebastian Bach. In response to this exciting and unusual piece of music, and seeking to make a ³joyous celebration of dancing,² Caniparoli choreographed an emotion-filled work in eight movements that boldly merges the vocabularies of classical ballet and African dance. This is the third piece by Val Caniparoli to be added to Pennsylvania Ballet's repertoire and it is the Company Premiere. The Pennsylvania Ballet will appear for 6 performances only, November 14-18, 2007 at City Center (55th Street, between 6th and 7th Avenue). The company will be performing Program A on November 14th at 7:30pm, November 16th at 8pm, November 17th at 8pm, and November 18th at 2pm and Program B on November 15th at 7:30pm and November 17th at 2pm. Tickets, ranging from $25 to $110, are available by calling CityTix at (212) 581-1212 or 1-877-581-1212 (outside metropolitan NYC, NJ, and CT). Tickets are also available via www.citycenter.org or by going to the City Center Box office. Keith Sherman and Associates
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