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...cultivated - and glorified in so many of his works. Consider the prevalence today of ballets stripped of fairy-tale plots and elaborate costumes and sets - no story, just a focus on the music and movement. That?s the aesthetic that Balanchine championed in pioneering works like Concerto Barocco (1941), Agon (1957) and Jewels (1967); he taught viewers to find drama solely in the beguiling patterns of his dancers massing, breaking apart, recombining, forming symmetries, tracing variations...
...those who regard George Balanchine as the choreographer of the century--any century--Washington will be the place to be in September. The Kennedy Center's Balanchine Celebration features such masterpieces as Agon, Divertimento No. 15 and The Four Temperaments, performed by the Miami City, Pennsylvania, San Francisco and Joffrey ballet troupes. It also marks the official debut of the Suzanne Farrell Ballet Company (Sept...
...sublime when he wrote for the theater. There were operas, including The Rake's Progress, composed for a libretto by W.H. Auden and one of a handful of 20th century operas that have found a secure place in the repertory. The ballets also continued; the last of his masterpieces, Agon (composed for another Russian choreographer, George Balanchine), came...
...June 1993 at the gala marking New York City Ballet's Balanchine celebration. To dramatize the international impact of Balanchine's work, artistic director Peter Martins invited some foreign dancers to perform with the company. Bussell was ablaze in the sexy pas de deux from Agon-and brought down the house, the prime spectacle on a spectacular night. Her reaction to the ovation was typical: "I didn't expect it-all that for just a pas de deux. Weird...
That is where Bussell and her bridesmaids come in. Darcey always dances big, her moves expanding the music and lending pliancy to the tautest Stravinsky in Agon. Herrera carries with her the timeless aura of the theater. Ringer has the potential to bring forward the Romantic tradition. As for Weese, there is a mysteriousness that is still intact, while her grace and skill are obvious. We may be approaching an era of poetry in motion...