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Simone Messmer, Sean Stewart, Kenneth Easter and Grant DeLong in Black Tuesday.
- Photo: Fabrizio Ferri.
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American Ballet Theatre continues a tradition of bringing repertory of unparalleled scope center stage. From classic ballets to innovative premieres, ABT’s world-class dancers bring their dramatic artistry and thrilling bravura to take dance to new heights this fall. Reserve your seats beginning July 25 and enjoy the intimacy of great ballet-theater at the newly renovated New York City Center, where you’ll feel so close to the action that you can almost touch the magic onstage.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY PAUL TAYLOR
MUSIC: SONGS FROM THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Celebrating the nation’s can-do spirit, this masterwork recalls the valiant souls gripped by the Great Depression. Watch down-and-out couples jitterbug down Park Avenue and music hall vaudevillians recall their heyday, performed to the era’s great songs, including “Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?”
CHOREOGRAPHY BY ALEXEI RATMANSKY
MUSIC BY DOMENICO SCARLATTI
Scarlatti’s delicate keyboard sonatas exude the weightless quality of a watercolor painting, and Ratmansky’s subtle choreography matches these compositions with musical sensitivity. Whatever is happening is implied rather than stated, but that something wonderful is happening is never in doubt.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY TWYLA THARP
MUSIC BY PHILIP GLASS
Experience an astonishing adrenalin rush with this marathon of exhilarating locomotion. From precise geometric patterns to seemingly free-form motion, Tharp’s rigorous choreography demands something akin to Olympic perfection.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY PAUL TAYLOR
SONGS SUNG BY THE ANDREWS SISTERS
In the shadow of the Second World War, this modern classic brings 1940s American life center stage as young lovers lindy, jitterbug and polka to the ebullient songs of The Andrews Sisters, including “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy,” “Tico-Tico” and “Bei Mir Bist du Schön.”
CHOREOGRAPHY BY TWYLA THARP
SONGS SUNG BY FRANK SINATRA
From the tender “Strangers In The Night” to the tough and contentious “That’s Life,” Tharp’s ballroom pas de deux exudes the slink and glamour of Sinatra’s moody, bittersweet voice.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY MERCE CUNNINGHAM
MUSIC BY JOHN CAGE
Merce Cunningham shows two can be very pleasant company indeed with Duets, a set of charming dances for six couples that showcases just about every possible movement between two bodies in motion. It’s mesmerizing from beginning to end.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY MARTHA CLARKE, ROBBY BARNETT AND FELIX BLASKA
MUSIC BY FRANZ SCHUBERT
This intriguing love triangle exudes romance and passion beneath its Edwardian patina, performed to Schubert’s Piano Trio #1.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY TWYLA THARP
MUSIC BY DONALD KNAACK
Power-packed and aerobically challenging, this work takes the classical pas de deux into an altogether new realm through the fierce, witty and surprising relationship Ms. Tharp creates between her dancers.
CHOREOGRAPHY BY DEMIS VOLPI
MUSIC BY PAT DONOHUE, CARLO DOMENICONI, HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS, LEO BROUWER, ISAAC ALBENIZ, MASON WILLIAMS AND COLONEL SANFORD FAULKNER
A recent winner of the Erik Bruhn Prize for choreography, Argentina-native Demis Volpi creates a bold and original ballet in its NYC Premiere.
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