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Spring Repertory Program 2
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Thursday, May 6, 2010 8:00PM

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Agon Choreography: George Balanchine Music: Igor Stravinsky (set to a commissioned score) Agon is plotless; an abstract ballet for eight female and four male dancers. Some of the dances were suggested by a description of seventeenth-century French court dances. The ballet is the artistic and spiritual triumph of two artists who fled their homeland following the turbulence of revolution to seek artistic freedom of expression and who went on to transplant the musical and dance heritage of Imperial Russia onto American soil with spectacular results that forever changed dance. “Fifty years ago, Modernism was given a name: Agon.” The New York Times Jardin Aux Lilas (Lilac Garden) Choreography: Antony Tudor Music: Ernest Chausson Dramatic ballet in one act; a tragedy of manners. A haunting story about a marriage of convenience set in England in the late 19th Century. In a moonlit garden filled with lilacs, but still dark and foreboding, Caroline, a young bride, bids farewell to her lover while her financé (whom she does not love) parts with his mistress. Jardin Aux Lilas (Lilac Garden) was one of the first ballets by English choreographer and dancer Antony Tudor to be staged in the United States. “The first great true drama of 20th-Century ballet and still never outclassed.” Telegraph.co.uk Gaîté Parisienne Choreography: Léonide Massine Composer: Jacques Offenbach Our Spring Repertory Program will feature Léonide Massine's fabulous Gaîté Parisienne danced to a score by Jacques Offenbach. A story of romance and high spirits set in a turn-of-the-century café, this mini-ballet features the rousing and uninhibited cancan in a tale of the nightlife of old Paris. “One marvelously crafted bit of business after another...delivered in handsome fashion.” Ballet.co.uk Magazine