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Balanchine/Robbins

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• • Balanchine/Robbins Run-Time: 2 hours
  • Repertory:
  • Afternoon of a Faun
    Music:
    Claude Debussy
    Choreography:
    Jerome Robbins
    
  • Antique Epigraphs
    Music:
    Claude Debussy
    Choreography:
    Jerome Robbins
    
  • Divertimento No. 15
    Music:
    Wolfgang Mozart
    Choreography:
    George Balanchine
    
  • Symphony in Three Movements
    Music:
    Igor Stravinsky
    Choreography:
    George Balanchine
    
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• Balanchine/Robbins program presents four works by master choreographers George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins, considered two of the greatest proponents of American dance. Robbins has been called by The New York Times, “the moon to George Balanchine’s sun.”
  
  Balanchine/Robbins is book-ended by Balanchine’s Divertimento No. 15 and Symphony in Three Movements. Divertimento No. 15 is set to Mozart’s work of the same title which was a favorite of Balanchine’s. The ballet features five movements for five women, three men and corps women, and showcases Balanchine’s unrivaled ability to complement music and choreography. Symphony in Three Movements, by contrast, is a large ensemble work marked by its breath of energy and complexity. Balanchine choreographed for Stravinsky’s score saying “[the movements] I arranged… try to catch the music and do not, I hope, lean on it, using it instead for support and time frame.”
  
  The Robbins works included in Balanchine/Robbins are his vision for the famed Debussy score, Afternoon of a Faun, and the rarely seen Antique Epigraphs. Robbin’s Afternoon of a Faun is set in a dance studio with two young dancers, each equally transfixed by their own reflections in the mirror. Antique Epigraphs, a ballet for eight women, was called by The New York Times, “a study in stillness and community.” The work was inspired by statues Robbins came across in his travels. Both works are beautiful in their simplicity and set to Debussy. 
  

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